Microplastics are now turning up basically everywhere researchers look: water, food, table salt, and in human blood and tissue samples. What science can’t tell you yet is exactly what that means for health, because the research is young. What it can tell you, with surprising confidence, is where most of the plastic in your diet…
Frugal advice has a math problem. Almost none of it comes with numbers attached. You get told to clip coupons, unplug the TV, and make your own cleaning spray, and nobody ever tells you what any of it is actually worth per month. So we ran the math on 12 of the most repeated frugal…
Most food in America gets thrown away for one reason: the date printed on the package. And here’s the part almost nobody knows: for the vast majority of shelf-stable foods, that date has nothing to do with safety. It’s a manufacturer’s estimate of peak quality, and the food is frequently fine for months or years…