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Fresh hop beer season is happening right now. This basically translates to Christmas for hop-forward beer lovers. For IPA enthusiasts especially, there’s hardly a better time to have a pint. Now, people tend to forget that there’s seasonality tied to beer. Sure, thanks to modern tech and the ability to freeze, dry, and turn hops […]
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Celebrity chef Julia Child taught countless people how to cook, including with this great tip on how to incorporate butter into canned vegetables. ... Read full Story
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Just two hours after landing in Naples and desperate for some caffeine to help alleviate some jet lag, I discovered that "iced coffee" does not exist in Italy .
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Taco Bell has a lot of fan-favorite menu items. If you especially love its crunchy taco shell, you can enjoy it at the restaurant where Taco Bell got its idea. ... Read full Story
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“Conspiracy theorists (and those of us who argue with them have the scars to show for it) often maintain that the ones debunking the conspiracies are allied with the conspirators.” — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Did you know?
To debunk something is to take the bunk out of it—that bunk being nonsense. (Bunk is short for the synonymous bunkum, which has political origins.) Debunk has been in use since at least the 1920s, and it contrasts with synonyms like disprove and rebut by suggesting that something is not merely untrue but is also a sham—a trick meant to deceive. One can simply disprove a myth, but if it is debunked, the implication is that the myth was a grossly exaggerated or foolish claim.