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The Appeal of MySpace Nostalgia, According to a Curious Member of Gen Z
It’s finally your turn on the family’s desktop computer. It takes forever to boot up. (You kill time by rapping along to the bridge in Evanescence’s “Bring Me To Life,” feebly blasting from your iPod nano.) You’re finally online. What’s the first site you visit to express your emo musical taste, rearrange your heirarchy of friends,…
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How to Get Past a Paywall to Read an Article for Free
Most of us have done it before. Over the past several years, countless websites have added paywalls: If you want to read their articles, you have to sign up and pay a monthly fee. Some sites have a “metered” paywall — meaning you can read a certain number of articles for free before they ask…
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The Most Helpful Google Search Modifiers Everyone Should Be Using
You likely use Google multiple times a day, from searching for restaurants nearby, to looking up answers to everyday questions. And usually, Google is pretty good at giving you what you want, even if you didn’t type in the right phrase. But when it comes to using Google for research purposes, especially for work, there’s…
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9 of the Best Subreddits to Identify Anything and Everything
It’s not hard to identify a thing if you almost know what it is — maybe you’ve got a field guide for birds or a repair manual for car parts you can cross reference it against. But when you truly have no clue what you’ve got, or when the options are all too confusing, you…