• Can Joel Embiid Still Save the Sixers’ Season?

    If you’re the Philadelphia 76ers, Monday night’s Game 2 collapse yielded devastating news, but also one pretty good reason to feel cautiously optimistic about the rest of the first-round series against the New York Knicks. Let’s start with the bad first. Up five with 27 seconds to go, Philly gave up a corner 3 to Jalen Brunson and then, instead of calling timeout to advance the ball, turned it over in chaotic fashion as Madison Square Garden physically shook. “The first thing is obviously they...

  • On Earth Day, sacrifice your pessimism, not your progeny, to save the planet

    These days, though, the sentiment has turned: Many of my peers increasingly believe the planet will suffer if they bring those future generations into the world.

  • Robert Downey Jr. can’t save The Sympathizer

    HBO’s The Sympathizer enters the television lineup with two strikes against it. In the first place, the limited series’s 2015 source novel, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, was among the worst Pulitzer Prize winners in recent memory, a geopolitical navel-gazer that “thrilled” flattering book critics’ voguish anti-Westernism. In the second, the show’s conceit has already been […]

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    Mushrooms can clean soil? Guided By Mushrooms shares how

    NEW LEBANON, Ohio (WDTN) -- If you've taken a stroll through Second Street Market recently, you may have seen a vendor with colorful, shapely mushrooms. Guided By Mushrooms grows gourmet mushrooms for restaurants, health food stores and grocery stores in the Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus areas. They also specialize in functional mushrooms, grown specifically for []

  • Master Gardener Plant Sale starts soon in Topeka

    TOPEKA (KSNT) - Locals can spruce up their backyard gardens next month after a visit to the Master Gardener Plant Sale in Topeka. The Shawnee County Extension Office announced in a press release that people can find flowering plants, vegetables, herbs and pollinator-friendly native plants at the sale. Some plants you can expect to find []

  • How to Keep Your Garden Soil Loose and Lovely Without Tilling

    Conventional gardening utilizes tilling every spring to loosen soil that has been compacted over the last year.

  • Brook Hall & Garden Estate opens garden for National Garden Scheme charity

    Brook Hall Estate and Gardens is located in Derry and is home to one of Northern Ireland's top arboretums. The 18th-century estate opened for the public with all proceeds going towards the National Garden Scheme charity. The National Garden Scheme is a UK-based charity that opens up private gardens to allow access to the public. All proceeds go towards funding national nursing charities such as Macmillan. Brook Hall partnered with the Foyle Hospice which greeted those attending the event with...

  • The Scargiver' review: Can Zack Snyder save his space epic?

    In Zack Snyder's "Rebel Moon: Part Two - The Scargiver", Netflix's answer to Star Wars gets its "Empire Strikes Back". Review.

  • You Can Save Money on Car Repairs by Using a DIY Garage

    If you’re strapped for cash and your car needs service, a DIY garage might be a way to do the work cheaply.

  • Internet can achieve quantum speed with light saved as sound

    Researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute have developed a new way to create quantum memory: A small drum can store data sent with light in its sonic vibrations, and then forward the data with new light sources when needed again. The results demonstrate that mechanical memory for quantum data could be the strategy that paves the way for an ultra-secure internet with incredible speeds.

  • How Vending Machines Can Save Lives in Substance Abuse Crisis

    “Harm reduction” vending machines, offering everything from naloxone to condoms, have begun popping up in Washington, D.C.

  • GARDEN CLIPPINGS: The six-week rule for starting seeds indoors

    Six weeks. If you are starting veggie or flower seeds indoors, I recommend doing so six weeks before the last frost.