A key cold medicine ingredient is basically worthless Cold medications on a shelf pictured in Miami, Florida, on September 12th, 2023. | Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty ImagesThe FDA’s 16-member advisory panel unanimously voted yesterday that oral phenylephrine, a common active ingredient in cold medications, is no better than a placebo for treating congestion. The call by the panel sets up potential F…

A Decongestant in Cold Medicines Is Ineffective. Here’s What to Use Instead. Here’s what you can use instead.

Decongestant in Cold Medicines Doesn’t Work, Panel Says The agency now must decide whether products containing the ingredient, like some Sudafed and NyQuil products, should no longer be sold.

The Best Cold Medicines Aren’t in the Cough and Cold Aisle When you’re feeling awful because of a cold, you just want something to fix you—if not to cure you, at least to help you temporarily feel better. Unfortunately a lot of remedies are placebos, but some things in the drugstore work better than others. Read more…

You Can Keep Cocktails Cold Without Ice Ice has become a given in cocktail culture, but there are good reasons to do without. You avoid overly diluting your drink, it’s friendlier on the environment, and you could be a forerunner in the scaffa (room-temp drink)trend. Or maybe you’re here because you simply ran out of ice. It happens. Luckily, you don’t need… Read more…

LPT: When washing dishes, use cold water for eggs and starches and hot water for grease and oils. Do NOT use hot water to clean a pan that you used for cooking eggs. You’ll thank me later. submitted by /u/born_to_kvetch

LPT: if you know you’re going to hurl, pour the largest glass of ice-cold water you can find and slug it. Puking something cold is a much less awful experience . It also dilutes the acid and taste. submitted by /u/FisterAct

Beef-Noodle-Soup, cold beef, tea-egg and Gyoza submitted by /u/pyam_to_go

LPT request: Washed a 100% linen dress in cold water, as instructions said and it shrank 3-4 inches. Any way to reverse this? It’s more of a mini dress now which is okay but I liked the original length better. Any way to reverse this? Will it keep shrinking more and more with every wash? submitted by /u/Appropriate_Half7881

Camera suggestions for cold weather Any suggestions for new camera that will be use in South Georgia & Antarctic Peninsula or any cold climate areas? Current gear: FujiFilm XT-20, with XF10-24. Mobile: iPhone 8. Friend suggested just buy iPhone 15 Pro Max, whereas event photography suggest Leica Q3. Whereas the expedition people suggest Canon 5D Mark IV, which is hard to get and e…

Some wacky cold war inventions submitted by /u/lastmodaflipa

Cold War Kids – Hang Me Up To Dry submitted by /u/clickclackrackem

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Cold pineapple cake (recipe in comments) submitted by /u/Neither-Tackle-2117

Florida Divers Working A Cold Case Found 32 Vehicles In A Lake, Which Isn’t Sketchy At All Ken Fleming and Doug Bishop may not be cops, but they do work to solve missing persons cold cases. It’s a volunteer gig that involves traveling up and down the state of Florida, using sonar to search various bodies of water for clues. And according to WSVN, one of their recent searches turned up 32 cars at the bottom… Read more…

LPT Cold showers will change your life a lot. Taking cold showers will change your life so much that it’s insane how such small thing can improve the quality of life. I’m not talking about 1-2 days of cold showers and done – I’m talking about taking a cold shower once every 1-2 days for many months. You’ll see huge improvement in emotional and physical state. When looking back it feels like…

NFT Trading Is Ice Cold But Developers Are Still Hot for Web3 This week, new reports were released that point to a major slowdown in NFT trading. Plus, Etihad Airways will soon let its community of frequent fliers stake NFTs for miles.

Advice about protection/prevention from the cold for my camera in winter I’m going to another country in winter, it’ll be the first time I bring my camera to somewhere that might go as low as -1c° and may be snowing. (Tokyo-Tohoku Japan in December) How do I deal with the cold? (As in for my camera, lens and batteries.) What should I look out for? submitted by /u/LycorisRei

The Chip Titan Whose Life’s Work Is at the Center of a Tech Cold War At 92, Morris Chang, the founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, can no longer stay in the shadows.

Spicy Cold Tofu Is Your Go-to Quick Summer Dish Spicy cold tofu may very well be the quickest recipe I know. I’ve made myself numb to the “prep time” and “cook time” I see at the tops of most recipes–it’s rather subjective to the maker’s skills and experience, and it’s particularly offensive when a recipe claims to take 15 minutes and it really takes an hour.… Read more…