
Harry Sawyers
Editor at Wirecutter
Now: @wirecutter editor. Then: @ChicagoMag, @Gizmodo, @PopMech, and @ThisOldHouse. I follow opinions on buying houses.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Harry Sawyers
Here are the pest repellents and traps that experts agree can effectively keep bugs away.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Christine Clisset |Caira Blackwell |Rosie Guerin |Abigail Keel |Nancy Redd |Marilyn Ong | +6 more
Listen and follow The Wirecutter ShowApple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube | iHeartRadio | Other platformsMother’s Day doesn’t have to be complicated. Wirecutter staffers share the classic and unexpected gifts that have delighted the mothers in their lives. Things we recommendDyson Supersonic Hair DryerRecchiuti Confections Black BoxEpisode transcriptCHRISTINE: I'm Christine Cyr Clisset. CAIRA: I'm Caira Blackwell. ROSIE: I'm Rosie Guerin and you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.
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2 months ago |
nytimes.com | Christine Cyr Clisset |Caira Blackwell |Rosie Guerin |Abigail Keel |Marguerite Preston |Doug Mahoney | +3 more
Listen and follow The Wirecutter ShowApple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube | iHeartRadio | Other platformsOur staff experts reveal time-tested methods for cleaning the most neglected (and grimy) areas of your home–from greasy ovens to stained patio furniture.
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Nov 1, 2024 |
nytimes.com | Harry Sawyers
I could not do a pull-up as a kid. My record of zeros over years of Presidential Physical Fitness evaluations in elementary school spoke for itself. It haunted me into adulthood. Walking by sidewalk construction sites in Brooklyn, if no one was around, I would jump up and grapple the scaffolding to try a palm-blackening pull-up. Later on, after I had kids, we’d go to playgrounds where I’d meet an old foe: the monkey bars.
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Oct 24, 2024 |
nytimes.com | Harry Sawyers
Leaf blowers and I go way back. Growing up in the suburbs of Atlanta, the neighborhood kids and I dueled with handheld Craftsman air cannons, launching pine cones off one another’s heads and blowing geysers of muddy water up from the creek out back. When I became a pro landscaper, I strapped on a gas backpack Echo blower to roll waves of leaves across vast asphalt parking lots.
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Spent hours studying hardback-bound archival issues at the old pop mech office — this essay get at so much of what I loved about it

"Cure Yourself By Electricity!" An essay in which I tour through the weird and fascinating huckster ads of early-1900s "Popular Mechanics": https://t.co/IObdbFap9f https://t.co/F9bc3KMviH

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