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My wife’s been sick this week and so I made some chicken noodle soup. My father in law, trying to be helpful, finished it up by tossing the noodles in with the rest of the soup to cook in the broth.

That saves dirtying a pot, but the noodles soak up a lot of the stock, leaving you with a super starchy dish with minimal liquid. By the time we ate, it was more goop than soup.

The next day we thought about pitching the leftovers, but instead tried blending it, noodles and all, then using that as a base in a new soup with fresh broth and…wow.

The blended soup base packed a powerful punch which, when balanced with more stock and fresh aromatics, created what might be the best chicken n

Logicians and economists have a funny way of turning linguistic idiosyncrasies into paradoxes. Here’s one: Sorites Paradox pokes at what it means to be a pile of something. Say you have a pile of sand. So far, so good. Then you take away one grain. Surely it’s still a pile of sand? Must be, why, what’s one grain going to matter when you’ve still got the rest of your precious sand?

Surely taking away a single grain of sand couldn’t change whether a collection of sand is a pile or not; after all, it’s just one grain. But suppose you took away another grain. And another. Suppose you removed grain after grain, one at a time, until there was only

Over the course of the spades season, we will trial out variations on the one-off effects of 4's and 9's, and then vote as a community on what ruleset to use going forward and for the next Cuttle World Championship!

**Why**: 4's and 9's have the weakest effects by a significant margin. Buffs could lean into these cards' existing aesthetics while delivering an impact that's better in-line with the power levels of other cards

**What**: We'll try two variations of 4's and two variations of 9's:

*Random 4's*: Target Opponent discards two random cards

*Reveal-Three 4's*: Target opponent reveals three cards; you pick two of them to discard

*Topdeck 9's*: Put target car

When was the last time you blew bubbles? There’s more technique to it than you might expect. Depending on your bubble wand, it might be possible to make one large bubble, or many little ones. In my experience, making a big one is much harder. It takes a steady, slower, and fluid motion to fill the suds with air, and then a gentle twist to close it off and separate the bubble from the wand. Plus, bubbles stick together as well as to the wand. This means you can twist at different times to create individual bubbles you stick together and then catch on the wand. There’s a lot of room for creative expression, and frankly a whole lot of fun to be had in bubble blowing.

And yet it’s something I

Glasses eights may be the most heavily debated move in the game. Some players think they are a trap that is rarely worth it, and others swear by them. What’s all the fuss about? Check out the crux of the controversy and use it to develop your own approach to glasses in the latest strategy deep dive!

https://youtu.be/031o_-W4elg?is=PjOlNspGCfzQAa7Y

Deltora Quest is an 8-book children's fantasy series by Emily Rodda. It takes place in the titular kingdom of Deltora and follows the heroes Lief (son of a blacksmith), Barda (his brawny childhood guardian), and Jasmine (a wild girl they meet in the woods) on an epic journey (a quest if you will) to find the seven magic gems which will complete the Belt of Deltora and defeat the evil Shadow Lord. It's a great read for a middle schooler, full of adventure. I particularly enjoy that it includes many logic puzzles, such as when Lief uses a Liar's Paradox to defeat a riddling bridge guardian.

RULE CHANGE! We reworked how the hand limit functions: at the end of your turn, discard down to 8 cards. Previously, the hand limit used to interact differently with every move it affected: you couldn’t draw at all, fives let you draw up to the hand limit, and nines would put the card in your hand exceeding the hand limit. In addition, there were a moderate number of turns where you’d be forced to play even though all your options worsened your situation. Now the hand limit doesn’t affect how other moves function or prevent what you can do. Instead, whatever happens on your turn, if you end up with more than 8 cards, you discard down to 8 at the end of your turn.

Truthfully, it’s a

Cyclosporiasis is an intestinal infection caused by Cyclospora, a microscopic parasite which grows in food and water that's been contaminated with feces, causing diarrhea which can last from days to months. A recent outbreak of Cyclosporiasis across the U.S. has been traced to Iceberg Lettuce distributed by Taylor Farms de Mexico, sometimes served as shredded lettuce at Taco Bell. So if you've ever eaten Taco Bell and thought it tasted like shit, well,

I'm feeling frazzled today. Work has been chaotic and I feel I'm juggling more balls than I can keep up with, running to catch one, throwing it as high as I can, and then flailing to get the next before it drops. It's makes it difficult to focus, and harder still to feel that I've accomplished much of anything. Stress tends to distort our whole perception, don't you think? Everything we experience can so quickly be masked through the lens of our worries and responsibilities.

Often we get so caught up in what we're feeling and what we're focused on that it's easy to lose perspective on what's really important. The stakes feel higher than they need to, and everything is worse for it. So take

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Have you ever had a transcendental experience where the boundaries between yourself and the world seem to dissolve until the universe reveals itself to you in a glorious manifold of undifferentiated oneness? I recommend it.

The experience is joyous, freeing you from the compulsion to suffer when things differ from how you wish they would be.

It’s enheartening, reminding you that at any time, you could tap into this mode of being, instantly finding peace, relief, and liberation.

And it’s tragic in a way. There is a rightness to the sensation that makes it seem as though this way of perceiving things is the way life should be. And yet the experience, like all things, must end. We can’t ma

Watch the latest Cuttle Season Championship live on twitch at https://twitch.tv/cuttle_cards and check out the bracket on challonge! We've got two first-time championship contestants today so it's sure to shake things up. Who will be the Clubs Season Champion?

Sometimes your crystals are all out of alignment and your mind is out of balance. Literally. Octoniaare microscopic calcium crystals in your inner ear that help your body to sense gravity and orientation. Sometimes they get displaced and float through your ear canals, which disrupts our balance and causes vertigo. The solution? Jiggle them into place! Doctors and physical therapists can walk patients through an exercises called a Canalith Repositioning Procedure which use a sequence of body movements and head positi