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BROOKLYN—Outside the Park Slope Food Coop in one of America’s bluest bulwarks, masked shoppers still wait outside in socially distant lines. The 48-year-old co-op is perhaps the nation’s most political—and progressive—grocery store, but on a recent Friday afternoon, its members were not particularly eager to discuss the man nearly all of them voted for last year: President Joe Biden.“He seems to be keeping his head above water, but he’s just treading water,” Kat Egan, a 56-year-old leadership coach, told me as she headed in for her monthly return to the co-op after leaving Brooklyn for upstate New York earlier in...

Whether you want to make a really cool paperweight or preserve a rare butterfly specimen for years to come, encasing (casting) an insect in resin is a great DIY project. This article walks you step-by-step through a simplified preservation process, but also offers some advice on doing a more detailed preservation in the last section. Either way, you’ll be amazed by the results! [Edit]Steps [Edit]Preparing the Insect for Preservation Sanitize the insect in alcohol for at least 5-10 minutes. Ethanol (70%-80%) is the best choice here, but isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol (70%-80%) is easier to find and gets the job done....

Looking back on my 18 years of parenting — which started, to date myself, even before “parenting” was acceptable to use as a verb — I’ve done a lot right, and I’ve done a lot wrong. I apparently never adequately reinforced the whole “dirty socks go in hamper” idea, and some future roommate or partner is going to find that repulsive. I yell too much, for sure, and my kids are intimately familiar with permutations of profanity that would be welcome on the deck of any respectable pirate ship. And even with six kids, I never got the hang of...

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If you have an Apple device, you've probably met Siri, Apple's voice assistant. Siri is an interesting little assistant, sometimes useful, sometimes funny and other times, a sarcastic little so and so.To most questions you'll get a standard response with the information you need, such as the nearest supermarket. But there are a few questions you can ask Apple's Siri and a few sentences you can say to your virtual friend from Cupertino that will trigger some hilarious responses - awesome Siri Easter Eggs just waiting to be found!In case you didn't know, an "Easter Egg" is a hidden feature...