Sky watchers: Do not miss the Geminid meteor shower this year. This annual collision of the trail of asteroid 3200 Phaetho and the Earth's atmosphere will provide a show for anyone who looks skyward at night from now until Christmas Eve. The peak of the Geminids will occur in mid-December, and viewing conditions will be close to perfect this year. Since...

Frankly, there's too much content out there to keep up with. I don't know how anyone stays on top of new episodes of the buzziest shows rather than rewatching the same comfort shows over and over again. But, still, there's new TV and movies to catch up on, and if you don't want to lose your mind trying to keep track of it all, you'd be well served to...

This shopping season, you should invest in your home by upgrading your standard cleaning tools to something a little snazzier—and something with more features that make sense. Some of these save you time, some of these get your stuff even cleaner, and some of them will save you money by reducing the single-use products you rely on. No matter whether...

Diet “challenges” are, by their nature, strict and not sustainable. (That’s what makes them challenges.) They usually demand you restrict your food choices in some way, such as cutting out entire food groups. But what if there was a diet challenge that just wanted you to eat more vegetables? That’s the idea behind the 800-gram challenge. What is the...

The art of peeling a boiled egg is one that people seem to take quite personally. It’s an inexplicable phenomenon in which every person on planet Earth has to do it differently, and so-called fool-proof methods don’t seem to work for everyone. It’s like reaching enlightenment when you finally crack the code, when karma bestows upon you your "perfect...

Most of the time, it's illegal to wander into a national forest to chop down a tree. Right now, however, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is all for it—provided you get yourself a Forest Service-issued permit first.Cutting your own tree on federal land actually turns out to be a pretty affordable way to source a Christmas tree, but there are specific...