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Molly Allen To make these viral blueberry cookies, I started with a recipe from Justine Snacks. This cookie recipe uses blueberries as the star, replacing the egg. They’re fluffy with the slightest crunch and great flavor—and you’d never know they’re vegan. Just be sure to use vegan butter, sugar, and white chocolate morsels! (You can also use…

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By Anthony Spadafora  7/29/22 Update July 29: We’ve provided a full list of the apps you need to delete from your Android device. Another batch of malicious apps filled with adware and malware has managed to slip past Google’s defenses and end up on the Play Store. In order to trick unsuspecting users into downloading them, these 36 malicious apps…

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by Rabbi Steve Leder @steve_leder, steveleder.com Rabbi Steve writes in the Aug/Sept issue of Women’s Day magazine, “This is the time of the year when Jews enter the High Holy Days, which include Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – a sacred season to seek forgiveness from those we have wronged. The completion of these steps…

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by Bethany Million July 21, 2022 It’s something we hope never happens. Your best furry friend decides to play the role of escape artist and jumps the fence or makes a mad dash out the door. Suddenly they’re out of your sight. Your dog’s sudden wanderlust goes just a bit too far and you need to…

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Mary Alice, Tony-winning actor Bill Russell, transformational basketball great Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek actor Michael Henderson, musician-singer Taurean Blaque, Emmy-nominated actor William Hart, Grammy-winning Delfonics founder Clifford Alexander, presidential advisor & Secretary of the Army Willie Lee Morrow, Black hair care pioneer Adam Wade, game show host

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If you want to have more professional results in your baking, you should use weight rather than volume measurements for dry ingredients like flour. This is the best article I’ve found to help with that. It might add a minute or two to your prep time, but the results will be worth it. Weight Conversions…

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America’s gun culture – in seven charts Firearms deaths are a fixture in American life. There were 1.5 million of them between 1968 and 2017 – that’s higher than the number of soldiers killed in every US conflict since the American War for Independence in 1775. In 2020 alone, more than 45,000 Americans died at…

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The Happiness Lab [I took this class on Coursera and loved it. Learned a lot, too.] Truth Be Told 70 Over 70 [from an NYTimes article about talking with our elders] Come Through With Rebecca Carroll Hidden Brain [also program on NPR] Sooo Many White Guys This American Life Black Girl Songbook [So good] Fresh Air Resilient Black Women…

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