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I live near a park with a lake, and over the years I've watched the small watercrafts shift from a mix of canoes and kayaks to a mix of kayaks and stand-up paddleboards, or SUPs. The SUP is all the rage these days, and standing up on your board is part of the novelty of it. But I'd like to propose a new way to move...Read more...

Whether we're out shopping for shoes or a new car, we've been trained to think beyond the utility of our stuff and consider how each purchase fits our personal style. And this extends to the most fundamental of possessions: Our homes. Most people have specific tastes when it comes to purchasing a home, and watching...Read more...

Usually when you think about about stress, you're considering how to manage it or avoid it-or you're reading about all the bad things it does to your body. But what if you reframed that thinking, and starting using regulatory responses to actually make stress work for you?

Before there was The Rings of Power, The Wheel of Time, or The House of the Dragon, there was The Witcher, the first post-Game of Thrones fantasy epic to flirt with widespread success. If Netflix's adaptation of the Andrzej Sapkowski novels and video game series never quite captured the zeitgeist, it has remained...Read more...

The All-in-One Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2021 for Windows Bundle comes with a lifetime of Microsoft Office and Windows 11 Pro. While they're on sale, you can get the whole bundle for $59.99 (reg. $418).

Apple Pencils have a notoriously steep price tag. Instead of paying over $100, you might want to check out the Digi Pen stylus designed for iPads and other tablets. For a limited time, you can get one for just $39.99, down from its normal price of $99.95.Read more...

WhatsApp's VoIP calls are fast, free, and often better than old-fashioned cellular calls (given your wifi is strong enough). In some parts of the world, it's even become the default way to call people. With all that popularity, though, comes a spam call epidemic. Whether you rely on WhatsApp or your traditional phone...Read more...

Right now, five people are possibly trapped in a private submersible somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. They have less than 20 hours of air left as of this writing-assuming they're still alive. The U.S. Coast Guard, Navy, and Canada's military are in the midst of a large-scale effort to locate and retrieve the vessel,...Read more...

Many years ago, I dined at the now defunct New York City location of Mission Chinese, a restaurant that was plagued by labor issues and various scandals, the smallest (and least consequential) of which was their iced Sichuan water pickles," a dish of seasoned crushed ice. I, along with two other dining companions,...Read more...

Remember when we talked about bonkers podcasts to listen to on those days you want to learn absolutely nothing? Well now it's time to get your brain back in working order. These 10 podcasts will each teach you how to be a better person in some way: a better sleeper, a better friend, even a better world citizen. Look...Read more...

If you're reading this, odds are you've sent a nude or suggestive photo to someone at some point in your life-and you wouldn't be alone. A third of Americans have shared a nude photo, an intimacy expert and certified sexologist told the New York Post. In fact, they send 1.8 million nudes per day (20 per second),...Read more...

When you get a new job, you're thinking about the future: New responsibilities, a new office, a new title, new coworkers. But you also have to show a little respect to the past, even if it was miserable. That means you may have to write a resignation letter to accompany the more informal discussion you're going to...Read more...

Your tech tools are great for managing your day, but nothing really beats writing things down in an old-fashioned planner. Writing manually helps you remember more, for instance, and there's something fulfilling about putting a big X through tasks you've completed. Different planners do different things, so as you...Read more...

Use your credit card right, and you could build the kind of credit history that saves you thousands of dollars throughout your life. On the flip side, misusing your credit card is a treacherous, slippery slope into debt and credit unworthiness.Read more...

In the United States and Canada alone, roughly 20% of adults live with some form of disability, yet recipes are rarely written with disabled people in mind. It is assumed the recipe reader has hands that can chop, slice, and grip without pain or discomfort; that they can lift heavy pots and pans, bend down to open an...Read more...

Adding manufactured substances to our skin is pretty unnatural, when you think about it. Even the most natural" skincare products have their ingredients extracted, chemically formulated, and processed in some sort of industrial facility. It's become popular to call some commercial skincare products clean" or...Read more...

If you want to study basic coding and learn how to create an AI chatbot, you can get the 2023 Ultimate AI ChatGPT and Python Programming Bundle on sale for $39.99 (reg. $154). This coding and AI programming bundle is for beginner programmers who want to learn how to work with AI.Read more...

Most of us like our houses to be quiet, peaceful places, but we also accept that no house is perfectly silent. While a creaking floor or a noisy radiator might be part of the charm of an older home, sometimes a noisy house is trying to tell you something, and that something might be expensive to fix and dangerous to...Read more...

For decades, we probably all heard similar messages from our parents and teachers as we trudged through high school: You have to go to college so you can get a good job. We wrote long-form essays and took out loans, and for many years it was true that college seemed to be the key to a job that paid a living wage...Read more...

Clotheslines have recently undergone a renaissance. Once considered gauche, line drying has benefited from country-chic marketing and support from environmentalists. But while it's not all white sheets softly blowing in the breeze, it really is a pretty easy way to save a hefty amount on your energy bill and keep your...Read more...

Thisrefurbished 2017 MacBook Air with a lifetime license to Microsoft Home and Business is $499.99 for a limited time. It comes with a grade-A refurbished rating, meaning it arrives in in near-mint condition limited to light scuffs. It was originally manufactured in 2017, so it may not be great for demanding software...Read more...

You probably don't give your hose a lot of thought until it starts leaking, at which point you are reminded how weirdly expensive hoses are, and how little you've previously thought about them. It's easy to forget how useful a tool it is until you find yourself unable to water the garden, give the dog a bath, clan out...Read more...

Do you wrap up every day looking at all the things you didn't get done, and wondering how you will shoehorn them into tomorrow's list? Your kid might be experiencing the same overwhelm if their slate of activities doesn't match their personal energy profile. A culture of achievement and never-ending to-do lists leads...Read more...

Windscribe is an award-winning VPN that can help protect your privacy, block ads, and even give you access to streaming services other VPNs can't quite crack. And Windscribe is currently offering a three-year subscription at $79.67 (reg. $207) until June 20.Read more...

I call it the sad plant shelf" (or SPS for short), and I make a beeline to it at every nursery I visit. This is the place where nursery workers send the plants that don't look as picture perfect as their potted brethren. They slap them with a discount sticker in the hopes of getting rid of them fast to make room for...Read more...

Typically when you hear distribution planning," you think of retirement. However, the tax planning that goes into retirement planning can be applied to other major expenses; namely, paying for college. Education funding is tricky for a whole host of reasons, and as CNBC explains, families should have a distribution...Read more...

Raspberries are nature's SweetTarts. For me, they're always just slightly too sweet and too tart, but I moved into a house with so many raspberry bushes that for a long time, you could check into Amanda's Bush" on Foursquare. My overabundance means I have tons to play around with, and I've been waiting all week for...Read more...

If you're trying to have a White Lotus summer from the confines of your home-instead of the beaches of Sicily-you can still get a taste of the lifestyle. Summer means an excess of delicious herbs, so much so that you may find yourself with an excess, especially if you garden. Regular old parsley and mint may be a...Read more...

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered what's been called a global garden boom," there has been a renewed interest in various methods and strategies for improving growing conditions for houseplants and outdoor gardens alike.Read more...

In school, most people learned that gardening involved planting a seed in soil, making sure it had the right amount of water and sunlight, and watching it grow. Of course, there's a lot more to it than that, not to mention many other gardening methods.Read more...

For the first time in several years, housing prices nationwide are actually dropping. For the most part, these decreases in cost aren't dramatic, but the best deals can be found in some of the housing markets that saw explosive growth at the beginning of the pandemic-especially in the southern and western parts of the...Read more...

Even if you prefer washing your hands and body with soap in gel or liquid form, there are still plenty of reasons to have a few bars of soap on hand at home.Read more...

Sleeping in the summer heat can be pretty miserable. Of course, having air conditioning helps tremendously, but if you're feeling hot when you go to bed, falling and staying asleep can be hard-especially if you're a hot sleeper.Read more...

Owning-or at least having access to-a car or another type of vehicle is a necessity in most parts of the United States, but this wasn't always the case.Read more...

Whether your driveway was paved using cement, asphalt, paving stones, bricks, or another material, you may have noticed that it has started to sink and crack in certain areas.Read more...

Hurricanes, tornadoes, and other extreme weather can take down even massive trees, but sometimes, the damage isn't as severe. Instead of toppling over completely, trees can be left leaning to one side, while its roots remain in the ground. Leaning can also be the result of planting a tree in soil that's unstable or...Read more...

A few weeks ago, one of Lifehacker’s regular freelancer contributors pitched us an idea for a parenting story: Streaming shows to watch when you’re sick of the kids watching Bluey over and over. Reader, I rejected this pitch, because Bluey is possibly the best show for kids and parents to watch together, like, ever,…Read more...

One of the challenges of starting a new job is learning all the lingo, acronyms, and terminology specific to the workplace, and the industry as a whole.Read more...

Until this week, my only knowledge of the association between vibration and fitness came from old cartoons. Watch them long enough, and soon you’ll see somebody jiggling their butt or belly with a vibrating machine attached to a cloth belt on it. (You know the ones.) They were supposed to somehow vibrate your fat…Read more...

Has any television show produced as many series finales as Futurama? Matt Groening’s sci-fi followup to The Simpsons aired on Fox for four seasons from 1999-2003 before it was canceled for the first time (series finale #1). A few years later, it was revived as four feature-length movies that aired on Adult Swim from…Read more...

I have a bad habit of taking carrots for granted. They’re everywhere—in lunch boxes with hummus, alongside potatoes and pearl onions under pot roast, chopped or shredded in garden side salads at mid-range chain restaurants. Their ubiquity is a slight disadvantage: The carrot is often included, but rarely considered or…Read more...

Your blood pressure is a measurement of the pressure your circulating blood is putting on the walls of your arteries, and is expressed as two numbers: Your systolic pressure (the top number, so the “120" in 120/70) is the force exerted on your arteries when your heart beats, and the diastolic pressure (the bottom…Read more...

When you pull up a resume template, it’s pretty straightforward: Your past jobs are listed in reverse chronological order near the top, dating back about 10 years or so. But you may need a “functional” resume sometimes, even if templates for it are a little harder to find.

ChatGPT’s impact on our daily lives has likely been overhyped, but itdoes have some great uses. Students can use it to study for tests, for example. And if you’re interviewing for jobs, ChatGPT can help you prepare.

You may want to cut a pill in half—maybe because you need a smaller dose, are trying to save on prescription costs, or have trouble swallowing larger pills. Cutting pills can be safe and effective, but there are a number of guidelines to make sure that you’re getting an effective dosage with each split pill. As…Read more...

One of the most common career scenarios is feeling like you’re performing well and not being paid enough for it. Maybe you put in extra hours, volunteered for committees, or helped train others. Perhaps you shared new ideas that were implemented, making your company more efficient. It’s natural to think “I deserve a…Read more...

Rosetta Stone offers beginner to advanced-level instruction for 25 different languages. And with a lifetime subscription (and, obviously, enough motivation), you can learn a new language at your own pace. Until June 20, you can get a lifetime subscription to Rosetta Stone for $159.97 with coupon code VACATION15.Read more...

When you’re unhappy in your relationship, it’s easy to point the finger at your partner and accuse them of being toxic. But what if you’re the one who’s toxic?Read more...

Going back to an old video game can be a great way to relax and recapture the feelings you had when you first played it. However, games take more effort to revisit than movies or books, and, sometimes, they don’t hold up to modern standards.Read more...

If you’re dropping checks in the mail to your landlord or utility provider, it’s time to look for a different way to pay your bills. Check fraud and mail theft nearly doubled between 2021 and 2022, affecting hundreds of thousands of Americans, according to reports from both the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and…Read more...