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2 days ago | 
cnet.com | Peter Butler |Mary-Elisabeth Combs
With a record number of people traveling for Memorial Day, there's some good news: Gas prices are slightly lower this spring. A gallon of regular hit a national average of $3.16 on May 13, down from $3.62 a year ago. Still, the prices may not stay low for long; they're already rising in some states like California.
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3 weeks ago | 
cnet.com | Mary-Elisabeth Combs
Home Kitchen & Household Many dogs like scarfing down cicadas. We talked to experts about how to deal with it. Mary-Elisabeth Combs Associate Writer Mary-Elisabeth is an associate writer on CNET's How-To team. She's a recent graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill's English Department, and resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. On the How-To team, she covers a little bit of everything. When she's not writing, she's catching up on Formula 1 or reading.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Mary-Elisabeth Combs
My dog has a terrible habit of scarfing down cicadas. She hunts them down, digs them up, and generally inhales the small bugs, before unceremoniously throwing them back up in the living room. Due to this addiction of hers, we have to strictly supervise her outdoor time during cicada season. When this started, I thought that my dog just had a strange proclivity for eating bugs.
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4 weeks ago | 
cnet.com | Mary-Elisabeth Combs
My sweet, dumb dog is addicted to eating cicadas. Every spring for the last five years, she's scarfed down as many as she can find only to yak them up -- both dead and alive -- in our living room. Due to her proclivity, she isn't permitted to go outside during cicada season without strict human supervision. One year, after my dog had been puking up the bugs pretty regularly all summer long, my parents and I watched her dig up, chase down and practically inhale several cicadas in our backyard.
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1 month ago | 
cnet.com | Macy Meyer |Clifford Colby |Mary-Elisabeth Combs
Money Taxes More than 1.1 million taxpayers have unclaimed tax refunds from 2021. You have until April 15 to claim, or the money disappears forever. Macy Meyer Writer II Macy Meyer is a North Carolina native who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in English and a second BA in Journalism. Macy is a Writer on the CNET How-To team, covering a variety of topics, including home security, fitness and nutrition, smart home tech and more.
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1 month ago | 
prod2.sleepopolis.com | Mary-Elisabeth Combs
If you can think back to this summer’s Olympic games, you might remember some of the crazy sleep news that seemed to be coming out everyday, or perhaps you might remember some of the breakout stars of the Olympics. Perhaps one of the most popular breakout stars from the 2024 Paris games was Stephen Nedoroscick, affectionately known as the “Pommel Horse Guy” by most Americans.
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1 month ago | 
prod2.sleepopolis.com | Mary-Elisabeth Combs
Sometimes, it can feel like celebrities are coming out with cash-grabby collaborations and products left and right. However, every once in a while, a celebrity comes out with a brand or creates a product with a company and it feels super authentic to both the brand and the celeb. So you might imagine my skepticism when I came across Jimmy Fallon’s pajama collaboration with New York based clothing company Alex Mill, aptly named P’Jimmies.
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1 month ago | 
prod2.sleepopolis.com | Mary-Elisabeth Combs
You’ve likely heard that it’s best for your circadian rhythm and sleep to keep your room cold at night, but as winter approaches and temperatures start to drop, this advice gets harder and harder to follow. Personally, there’s nothing I love more than curling up at night with all of my coziest and heaviest blankets, only to kick them off while I sleep because they get too warm.
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1 month ago | 
cnet.com | Mary-Elisabeth Combs
In college, I would do my best to cook for myself, but that would require me to perfectly time my main dish with several sides so that all my food would be done at once. Reality typically set in after coming home from a long day of classes. I was rarely in the mood to put in the time and mental energy necessary to plan my meals. This resulted in me spending way too much money on takeout or just eating snacks from my pantry.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Mary-Elisabeth Combs
In college, I would do my best to cook for myself, but that would require me to perfectly time my main dish with several sides so that all my food would be done at once. Reality typically set in after coming home from a long day of classes. I was rarely in the mood to put in the time and mental energy necessary to plan my meals. This resulted in me spending way too much money on takeout or just eating snacks from my pantry.
