Today's NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Friday, March 8, 2024

If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Green category - Save some for later. Blue category - Piquant. Purple category - Like birdwatching, but with partial credit. BEWARE: Spoilers follow for todays Connections puzzle!...

March 8, 2024 · 3 min · 435 words · Kaylee Howard

Horizontal Collaboration: Sleeping With The Enemy

Amidst the celebrations, however, a darker undercurrent emerged. Approximately 9,000 members of the pro-Nazi French Militia faced summary execution during this tumultuous time. Many of these shorn women were merely prostitutes who had engaged in professional services for the occupying Germans. Some were subjected to rape, while others became targets of personal vendettas, framed and falsely accused. Many victims were young mothers, their husbands confined to German prisoner-of-war camps. Regardless of their social standing or reputation, women accused ofcollaboration horizontalefound themselves exposed to public scorn....

March 7, 2024 · 1 min · 146 words · Mark Larson

Save Money on Childcare by Starting a Babysitting Co-op

The cost of babysitting has drastically changed since I was a kid. (Yay, inflation.) For parents on a budget, there’s another option. It’s a win-win situation, but forming a co-op requires careful planning. To assist you, we’ve compiled some tips on how to get started with your fellow parents. Who will be involved? However, your co-op should decide whether to hand off that responsibility to a non-parent. Other items up for discussion How often will you hold co-op meetings?...

March 7, 2024 · 2 min · 386 words · Lauren Flynn

The Best Quad Exercises for Leg Day

Ready for leg day? Ive already shared myfavorite exercises for hamstringsand foryour glutes (a.k.a. Its time to tackle the main muscle group we think of when we think of legs: the quads. What are the quads? Your quadriceps are a group of four muscles on the front of your thighs. The function of these muscles is to straighten your knee. Three of the muscles (the ones with vastus in the name) start on your upper thighbone....

March 7, 2024 · 2 min · 408 words · Jerry Burton

Today's NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Thursday, March 7, 2024

If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Green category - Remove whats inside. Blue category - Like a very short Wikipedia article? Purple category - What you think about when youre sleeping....

March 7, 2024 · 2 min · 417 words · Alex Ford

What to Eat After a Workout

Lets dig in (ha) to what you should be eating after a workout, and why. Am I wasting my workout if I dont eat the right thing afterward? Good lord, no. Post-workout nutrition is often a subject of these garbage claims. The truth is: You cannot waste a workout. Exercise has a great many benefits, and the timing of your nutrition onlyslightly modifiessome of them. So, no, you havent wasted any time....

March 7, 2024 · 2 min · 411 words · Debra Coffey

How to Factory Reset Any Mac

Perhaps youre selling your MacBook Pro, or youre handing it over to a family member. Or maybe your MacBook is old and slow, or its just stuck in a boot loop. Erase Assistant will take care of everything for you. Well walk you through both options below. For this, youll need to be running macOS Monterey or higher. And if youre running macOS Ventura or higher, the steps are slightly different....

March 6, 2024 · 2 min · 336 words · Kevin Wilkerson

Make This Perverted TikTok Ramen Carbonara Even Better

Pasta carbonara is pretty impossible to improve, but it can get a tiny bit more fun. Then I realized thats my favorite jot down of food experiment anyway, so why not? Have fun with your lunch today and make this perverted ramen carbonara. What is pasta carbonara? Traditional pasta carbonara is loved for its creamy, cheesy sauce made with raw eggs. The sauce is like a savory cheese-custard glaze that lightly coats every noodle....

March 6, 2024 · 3 min · 449 words · Angela Hamilton

The Best Free Steam Games You Can Play Right Now

PC gaming is bigger than ever, with a ton of different ways to play available out there. you could play on laptops, desktops, and even on Valve’s handheld gaming PC, theSteam Deck. There are a ton of great free-to-play games on Steam that can keep you busy for hundreds of hours. The game was developed by Respawn, the same developers behind hits likeTitanfallandStar Wars: Jedi Survivor. Path of Exile Fans of games likeDiablowill findPath of Exilean appealing option....

March 6, 2024 · 1 min · 136 words · Bryan Smith

The Smalo LX2 E-bike Is a Joy to Ride, but It’s Not for Everyone

Overall, it looks distinctive enough that youll be met with whatsthat? stares out on the road. Immediately after hitting the Smart Mode button, I became a believer. On a flat bike path, the LX2 on is one of the most fun e-bikes Ive ridden. Exactly how the LX2’s AI integration works is something of an open question. Whatever’s under the hood, tooling around on an LX2 is effortless, with no learning curve....

March 6, 2024 · 2 min · 243 words · Bernard Reed

Today's NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Wednesday, March 6, 2024

If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Green category - In the courtroom. Blue category - At the circus, maybe. Purple category - Compound words, with a sartorial twist....

March 6, 2024 · 3 min · 439 words · Brad Barry

You Can Add New Fonts to Google Docs

But it’s easy to add more. To get started, tap the font drop-down. At the top you’ll see aMore fontsbutton. Click this and scroll through Google’s complete font collection. There are also a few filtering options. I recommend settingScriptsto “Latin,” unless you specifically want fonts that focus on other character sets. From there, you could filter by throw in. you’re able to add as many fonts to your list as you like....

March 6, 2024 · 1 min · 163 words · Christopher Blake

How to Play Strands, the New York Times’ New Word Search Game

Strands just launched yesterday, so right now it’s possible for you to play puzzle #2 today. How do you play Strands? But if you want a sense of what youre getting into, read on. The Strands board is a 6x8 grid of letters, and it looks like a small word search. Unlike a word search: There is no word bank to tell you which words youre searching for. The words can twist and turn in any direction, including diagonally (like in the game Boggle)....

March 5, 2024 · 3 min · 527 words · Abigail Hudson