Prepare your car for the cold months aheadIf you haven’t checked your car for a while, the clocks going back is the perfect time to give it the once-over. A spell of cold weather will soon expose a car battery that is on its last legs. Car batteries start fadi... More »
What Is the Difference Between Cream, Heavy Cream, and Half and Half?
Let's start with half and half because I get quite a few emails from people not living in the United States asking me about it when they see it in one of my recipes.
What is Half and Half?
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The U.N. agency that has been aiding Palestinian refugees for the past 74 years said on Thursday that it had begun to significantly reduce its operations in the Gaza Strip after nearly exhausting its fuel reserves, exacerbating a humanitarian crisis that the a... More »
Goings OnGoings On: Sampha’s Ornate Neo-SoulSave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyAlex BaraschCulture editorYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it ... More »
We’re living through an era of collapsing paradigms. The conceptual frames that many people use to organize their understanding of the world are crashing and burning upon contact with Middle Eastern reality.The first paradigm that failed this month was critica... More »
For the past two and a half weeks, college leaders have canceled or anxiously discussed canceling campus speeches and events that touch on Israel and Palestine. They’ve agonized over the wording of official school statements about the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel... More »
US stocks traded mixed Thursday, with the Nasdaq trading in correction territory.
Gross domestic product grew by 4.9% at an annualized rate over the third quarter, the fastest since 2021.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq was also weighed down by ... More »
They punish governments that dare to deviate from financial orthodoxy. They strike fear into the hearts of finance ministers. They were seemingly a dying breed in the years between the crash of the late 2000s and the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, but now the bond ma... More »
Social media can be a fun way to connect. However, Statista reports that the average person spends 151 minutes daily on social media. That’s 2.5 hours per day that we could use to learn and grow. However, it’s not probable that people will completely give up a... More »