The Price of Olive Oil Is Too Damn High
Olive oil has many known benefits, from the subtle taste it imparts to food to its status as a heart-healthy food. In recent months, due to weather-related shortages, the cost…
Waze Can Now Help You Stay Off Accident-Prone Roads
Image: Waze Waze, Google Maps’ more helpful cousin, is adding yet another useful feature. After almost a year of beta testing, Waze is now introducing a new alert system for…
Why the FDA Keeps Recalling Eye Drops
Photo: sruilk (Shutterstock) You might be tired of hearing about eye drop recalls, but the FDA has issued a new list of eye drops to stop using. This time, it…
The Meanings Behind the Alerts You Hear on Planes
Air travel can be noisy. You go from the loud, overlapping sounds of the airport terminal, to the whooshes, humming, and beeping inside the aircraft. Then, once you’re in your…
If You Have a Secret Cell Phone, Turn It Off on Wednesday
Your phone is about to get loud this week. On Wednesday, October 4, at approximately 2:20 p.m. ET (11:20 a.m. PT), FEMA, in partnership with the FCC, is conducting a…
How to Manage Your Catastrophic Thinking
Catastrophic thinking can be extraordinarily hard to cope with. Whether it’s dealing with fears about your physical safety, the uncertainty of personal relationships, or the prospect of financial troubles, life…
Apple Added Satellite Roadside Assistance to the iPhone
Last year, Apple unveiled Emergency SOS via satellite, an iPhone 14-exclusive feature that used satellite communications to connect you to emergency services. With the launch of the iPhone 15 and…
How to Stop False Smoke Alarms When You’re Cooking
Smoke detectors: Can’t cook with them, won’t survive a midnight blaze without them. If you spend any time in the kitchen, a food-triggered false alarm has probably happened to you.…
The 10 Largest Cities (Relatively) Safe From Climate Change
The effects of global climate change are already wreaking havoc, and all evidence suggests things are going to get worse in the near future. Learning how to deal with/survive extreme…
What to Do When You See a Downed Power Line
With heavy storm activity moving across North America, and autumn moving in, there are bound to be some downed power lines here and there. But what do you do if…