04 June

12 Best Uses For Old Android Phones

In the ongoing age of Zoom, a good webcam is more important than ever. Depending on the sort of desktop or laptop you’re using, you may not have a webcam at all. Even if you do, it might be low quality, sending grainy images of you over the internet to friends and colleagues.

03 June

Does turmeric’s reputation translate into real health benefits?

While Kamal Patel was probing through the reams of user data on examine.com – a website that calls itself “the internet’s largest database of nutrition and supplement research” – before a planned revamp later this year, he discovered that the most searched-for supplement on the website was curcumin, a distinctive yellow-orange chemical that is extracted from the rhizomes of turmeric, a tall plant in the ginger family, native to Asia.

01 June

The 32 Most Iconic Poems in the English Language

When the anniversary of the publication of Robert Frost’s iconic poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” came around, it spurred the Literary Hub office into a long conversation about their favorite poems, the most iconic poems written in English.

31 May

‘Cat Tracker’ study reveals the secret wanderings of 900 house cats

The goal of the massive international Cat Tracker project was simple: find out where pet cats go when they’re outside. Researchers have tried to tackle this question in the past, either by following cats on foot (good luck!) or by putting radio-transmitters on collars around cats’ necks, but Cat Tracker was singular in its scale—nearly a thousand cats across four countries wore GPS trackers for a week to shed light on how far they range and where they go.