Cars and Horsepower

You've Been Checking Your Oil Wrong Your Whole Life—Here's How to Actually Do It Right

Pulling the dipstick is easy. Reading it correctly is another story. Here's when to check, how to read the markings, and what ...
Farm Progress

Here’s how to use late-season corn tissue test results

Corn tissue tests taken at tassel to silking give growers a snapshot of crop health and help plan nutrient applications for ...
Player.One

'The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth' Guide: How to See What Items Do, Enable Item Descriptions, Track Every Pickup

With hundreds of passive items, active items, trinkets, cards, pills, and runes available, "The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth" offers nearly endless item combinations. While this variety adds replay value ...
The New York Times

PCA keeps hitting, but sluggish Cubs can’t muster any momentum

Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a two-run home run in the sixth inning Saturday at Wrigley Field, but the Blue Jays rallied for an 8-6 victory. Sage Zipeto / Getty images CHICAGO — If I had told you in late ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Pete Crow-Armstrong hits for cycle, but Cubs need more than ‘MVPETE’ to top Rockies, be dangerous again

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WGN-TV

PCA walks off A’s 7-6 to complete crazy comeback

CHICAGO (AP) — Pete Crow-Armstrong’s bloop RBI single capped a four-run ninth inning and the Chicago Cubs beat the Athletics 7-6 Thursday night to avoid a three-game series sweep. Crow-Armstrong also ...
NBC News

Karen Read reveals decision behind new lawsuit against city and police

Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman who was acquitted of killing her police officer boyfriend last year after two widely publicized murder trials, revealed Friday why she filed a lawsuit alleging ...
The New Yorker

Can A.I. Produce Writing That We Actually Want to Read?

This is part of a series of columns about the viability of the American university system. In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about ...
The Atlantic

How to Read Like a Child Again

This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.
The New Yorker

How Reading with My Dying Mother Revealed Her Life

I was eight, and through my bedroom wall I could hear my mother, Heidi, talking to herself as she prepared to go to sleep. Every night, in the living room, she positioned old magazines beneath the ...
MLB

Here's how PCA continues to take his Gold Glove defense to another level

This story was excerpted from Jordan Bastian’s Cubs Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. CHICAGO -- Pete Crow-Armstrong glided ...