Melissa Kirsch
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Should You Get An Electric Bike?
10When I first heard about electric bikes, they struck me as the ultimate life hack. They allow you to commute relatively speedily without the hassle of public transportation, to get exercise without getting overly sweaty, to get from point A to point B without spending money on petrol. As a longtime urban cyclist who’d sworn…
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How Not To Lose A Finger In The Kitchen
As many times as I have watched deft prep cooks slice tomatoes and chop onions with nary a nick, I remain stalwartly accident-prone in the kitchen. I can’t seem to master that “bear claw” grip whereby you tuck your fingertips on the stabilising hand to prevent accidentally knifing yourself. After an unfortunate incident with a…
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Is It Ever Acceptable To FaceTime In Public?
Everyone’s got an opinion about everyone else’s terrible tech manners: how you should behave online, when and where it’s ok to use your phone, which emoji are acceptable at work, whether that email was rude or just terse. We’re looking to put these divisive issues to rest, or at least to offer a voice of…
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10 Chrome Extensions You Should Be Using
It will come as no surprise that, as the editor of a website devoted to productivity, I’m obsessive about refining the details of my tech life to be certain every element is helping me get the job done. While I have software that I swear by (WriteRoom, Deckset, Evernote), I’m more of an evangelist for…