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4 Things People Get Wrong About Head Lice
The truth: Lice, which are wingless, don’t jump or fly. They don’t hop from place to place, either. They can crawl, however, and very quickly, because their legs are very well adapted for crawling. And once they crawl onto a child’s head, they tend to hang on tightly, thanks to the hooklike claws they have at the end of their…
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Why TikTok Is Wrong About ‘Toxic’ Air Fryers
We may earn a commission from links on this page. According to legions of TikTokers, I should throw away my air fryer, and you should too. It’s supposedly filling your body with “forever chemicals” and probably giving you cancer. These aren’t realistic fears, though. Let’s break down the truth, and then look at where this TikTok trend is coming from,…
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If you’re playing PC games and not using supersampling, you’re gaming wrong
When we review the best gaming laptops here at Tom’s Guide, our testing guru Matthew Murray runs frame rate benchmarks at both a laptop’s native screen resolution and 1080p (1920 x 1080). It’s a key process in detecting the raw processing power of a portable PC’s GPU, and these figures absolutely do matter. Yet if you own either an Nvidia…
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What Is the ‘Firehose of Falsehood’? What People Are Getting Wrong This Week
If this were a normal election season, I’d take a look at the stickiest claims from each side, examine where they come from, and separate the spin and half-truths from the realness—get in there and give those facts a proper checking. But that’s far more difficult now. In this election (and the last one, and the one before that) one candidate…
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