How To Boil an Egg: The Science, the Controversy, and the Perfect Yolk
[masterslider id=”5″] Year after year, the most common how-to questions on Yahoo searches revolve around tying neckties, getting rid of fruit flies, and boiling eggs. Compared to the 177,147 ways to do the first and man’s pitched battle with pests, cooking an egg should be pretty straightforward—after all, we’ve been…
Keep the Change: How Mobile Wallets Affect Tipping
When we’re all paying for things with smartphones, what’s going to happen to the tip jar? How will people drop change (or more) to thank counter workers? In the United States, about 31 service professions include — and depend upon — tipping. If Apple Pay gets people to flash phones…
Apple Pickings: What Social Media and Search Data Tell Us About the iPhone 6 Event
Listening to Apple’s announcements today was a little bit like tuning into a Ronco commercial: But wait, there’s more! CEO Tim Cook revealed the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus (available Sept. 19), the mobile payment technology Apple Pay (a software update coming in October), and the Apple Watch (due out…
Hot on ice: Where the fans are for Shaun White, Ashley Wagner and other popular Olympians
For searches ending February 12, snowboarder Shaun White outstrips other popular Olympians. Shaun White may be out, but he’ll always have Twin Falls. Or at least, the Idaho residents were his most ardent online seekers — probably because they were watching him closely along with Idaho-born Sage Kotsenburg, who got…
Hot on ice: ‘Why don’t Russians smile?’ and other most-searched questions
The most decorated Winter Olympian, albeit handsome, looks a tad overdressed for Sochi. That’s because Apolo Ohno’s out of a skin suit and in his two-piece as an NBC analyst. [ Related: How a 17-year-old girl inspired America’s first gold medal in Sochi ] But still the wistful question…
Not the top 10 news stories of 2013
Reuters/REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz – The Reichstag building, seat of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, is pictured though a flag depicting fugitive former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, during a demonstration in Berlin November 18, 2013. (REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz) We here at Yahoo like making lists out of…
Top 10 News Stories of 2013
Getty Images – Boston marathoners finish their race After a bruising election campaign that took a good part of two years, America deserved a rest. The country didn’t get one, unless you count the government shutdown – which almost made the year’s ranking of the most-searched news stories on Yahoo….
Exclusive: Asiana Airlines passenger describes crash, calm amidst chaos
Firefighters attending to Asiana Airlines jet (Photo by Wendell Hom) Wendell Hom trained at a Yongmudo martial art camp in Seoul, went diving and surfing in Bali and took muay thai boxing classes in Bangkok. “It’s been a month,” he posted from Thailand on his Facebook account. “The adventure ends…
A Fond Farewell to the Bloodsport of ‘What Not to Wear’
Clinton Kelly and Stacy London on “What Not To Wear.” Hopeless, even defiant about fashion? Your last salvation ends this summer. After 10 seasons of advising women (and some men) about the social stigma of light-wash jeans and the saving grace of a well-cut jacket, “What Not to Wear”…
The fight over what grief means
Controversy over the boundaries of grief How much is too much grief? And how long do you wait before you decide? Among all the changes in the fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the most controversial may have been removing the so-called “bereavement exclusion.”…