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Audrey Niffenegger’s 2003 novel The Time-Traveler’s Wife was a book that seemed aimed particularly at me. It’s set in Chicago, where I was living when it came out, and I enjoyed following along as the characters rode my busses and ate at my favorite brunch spot. It’s a closed-loop time travel story, which is the best…Read more...

If you use Google Messages on Android, it might be silently stealing away battery life from your phone. And while Google has fixed the issue, the patch might not hit your device for some time. Until then, there are steps you can take to stop the app from putting an unnecessary drain on your battery.

Gardening is often pitched as a relaxing, therapeutic activity—and it is relaxing and therapeutic! But it’s also a sign of how advanced society has become that we can regard growing food as a charming hobby instead of an absolute necessity. On the one hand, that’s a clear sign of mankind’s mastery over the world. On…Read more...

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This week, the young people are trying to capture the coastal grandmother lifestyle, they are explaining slang to their elders, and they are going to Coachella.

As the weather gets warmer and you start dragging your lawn and garden equipment out of the garage or basement and into your yard, you may notice that not everything made it through the winter unscathed. For example, you might connect your trusty garden hose to the outdoor waterline only to find that it has sprung a…Read more...

It is spring, which means it is the time of year that my husband and I thought maybe we would move into a larger home. It’s actually the third spring we have thought that—the first being right when the pandemic hit, the second being once we were finally vaccinated and ready to start looking but the housing market did…Read more...

Being “short” is sort of subjective. Medically, a person is considered short if they’re more than two standard deviations below their population’s mean for age and gender, whatever the hell that means. If you’re short, you know it. You don’t need to do a bunch of math. People will tell you, first of all, and you’ll…Read more...

Intermittent fasting was once hailed as a powerful strategy for weight loss, but the latest science shows it’s not exactly a miracle solution after all.

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Chrome extensions are great. They can help you write better, keep pesky ads at bay, and save you money while you shop, among hundreds of other tasks. However, like Android apps on the Play Store, extensions on the Chrome Web Store aren’t always what they seem. Malware is very much a concern, and you certainly don’t…Read more...

You guys know I’m a fan of the devilishly hard Wordle variations, like Antiwordle and Squardle. But sometimes I just want to play a Wordle variation because I like Wordle and would like to have another serving of it, please. Hurdle obliges, with only a slight twist.Read more...

I hate talking about cast iron. It’s just a pan (or a material with which they make pans, Dutch ovens, etc.), but it’s a pan that brings all the nerds to the yard, and they’re like “my seasoning method is better than yours.” They love to talk about thermal conductivity and polymerization, two subjects I’ve tried my…Read more...

You renovate your bathroom, only to realize too late that you haven’t accounted for sufficient storage in the shower. Or you’ve inherited an existing shower that has exactly one modestly sized niche that will never be big enough to store all your necessary bottles. You might think you’re doomed to a life with one of…Read more...

Sometimes—and for reasons that don’t involve future blackmail plans—you need to record your phone calls. Maybe you’re interviewing someone over the phone and want to refer to the call later, or you’re talking with a shady company that will deny the details of your call without proof. Whatever the case, Android users…Read more...

If you’ve ever tasted New Orleans-style coffee, you may know that some of its unique flavor is due to the addition of chicory. Chicory is the root of an endive plant, which gets roasted, ground, and added into coffee. The use of chicory was introduced by the French as a way of dealing with coffee shortages, and the…Read more...

It’s official: No sector is safe from rising labor and supply costs. Shake Shack CEO Randy Garutti recently announced a 3.5% price increase on all items, on top of another 3.5% increase from just in October. Fast food once existed as a cheap and convenient option for those living a life on the go—but with the…Read more...

Gardening can be demoralizing if, after hours of sweaty work, your results are lackluster and your plants decimated by bugs or eaten by deer. Worse is when the flowers you did manage to coax into bloom don’t bother showing up again the next year. That’s why perennials are so important for any flower garden—because…Read more...

Nearly four years ago, Lifehacker’s Senior Food Editor Claire Lower posted an excellent article entitled Surprisingly Good Life Lessons From the Satanic Bible.Read more...

I recently boarded a plane for only the second time since March 2020, and I’m here to tell you: Flying has not gotten any more pleasant. Seats are just as cramped, cabins are just as loud, and flights feel just as full. Airline travel, in general, is a big mess, thanks staff shortages, overbooking, delays,…Read more...

Many gardeners like to use raised beds to grow their bounty—they create a lovely border, limit weeds, and are easier on your back—but they can also be quite costly to fill, especially if they’re more than a foot high. You don’t need to buy several bags of soil to get good quality, nutrient-rich material for your…Read more...

Maybe you’ve hit a career rut, or you need one-on-one guidance to overcome a personal struggle—whatever it is, self-help books aren’t cutting it. Asking for help can be the key to getting ahead. But who exactly should you turn to? If you’ve started your search for guidance, you’ve probably seen three different titles…Read more...

Even though I started this stretching challenge with the idea of finding out whether I could become more flexible, I have to admit that I was kind of secretly hoping it would not work. After all, if it doesn’t work, that means I can quit guilt-free.

There are certain assumptions that are made about Southern cooking that do not apply to me, mostly the ones that hinge on the concept that most Southern food is homemade. My family was quite poor for a very long time—I’m two or three generations removed from living in a house with dirt floors, depending which branch…Read more...

Insurance for body parts has long been part of our cultural mythology. Jennifer Lopez has been dogged by rumors her ass is insured for years, and those rumors persist even though she’s denied them. There are reports that Dolly Parton’s breasts are insured, and Heidi Klum has been open about how both her legs are…Read more...

Eating healthy is fine and all, but a lot of so-called “healthy” eating is either too labor-intensive, too low-calorie, or otherwise not a great value for your money or time. Fortunately, the redditors at r/EatCheapandHealthy have solutions. Today, let’s look at their suggestions for high-protein meals that are easy…Read more...

Some people seem to have a “green thumb”—a natural affinity with houseplants that lets them grow anything, anywhere. I am not one of these people. The only way I can grow anything is by ignoring my natural instinct, breaking things down logically, and following a strict schedule. But my plants live a lot longer thanks…Read more...

Lenovo laptop users need to install critical security patches right away to fix several major vulnerabilities that leave their device open to dangerous malware attacks.

Yesterday, my very own sister, Sydney, attempted to publicly shame me for an incident that occurred over a decade ago in the Burbank Costco parking lot. I was young, hungry, and had not been properly satiated by the various samples, so I ripped open a block of just-purchased Colby jack, took a big bite out it, and…Read more...

I use Apple Pay for everything. It’s fast, secure, and best of all it gives me 2% cash back on my Apple Card. However, some stores don’t stop at 2% cash back—participating retailers offer 3%. So if you want to squeeze every cent of credit card rewards you can into your shopping, you might want to consider picking…Read more...

Music festivals have come a long way from the muddy fairgrounds of Woodstock in 1969. What started as an expression of counterculture has turned into a mainstream, billion-dollar industry. According to Nielsen’s Audience Insights Report on Music Festivals, approximately 32 million Americans attend at least one music…Read more...

We wrote last month about Hulu’s obsession with true crime, and the streamer is staying on that train in May. The platform will premiere Candy, a limited series that tells the story of Candy Montgomery, a Texas housewife accused of murder in the 1980s. Episodes of Candy, which stars Jessica Biel as the title…Read more...

If you make a big mistake at work, losing your job—and the income and health insurance that comes with it—is the worst-case scenario, but it isn’t often the likely one. What’s more common is gaining a reputation for being bad at what you do.Read more...

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If you attended high school in the 2010s, your experience didn’t exactly resemble on-screen depictions like The Breakfast Club, Mean Girls, or even High School Musical. There wasn’t that classic “status quo” pitting the jocks against the goths against the theater kids. For the past ten years, the rules and hierarchies…Read more...

Every 4/20, publications that don’t typically give any air to weed smoke are suddenly puffing away on puns—and trying to be cool about it. On the other hand, Lifehacker has been bringing you important baseline ouid information for many years, because we want our readers to have an informed experience no matter where…Read more...

Viewers who love Marvel, Star Wars, or both have something to look forward to on Disney+ in May. The service launched Moon Knight, the latest miniseries set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in March, and the final episode drops on May 4. You’ll also get an inside look at the show with the premiere of Marvel Studios:…Read more...

Apple’s HomePod had a short, rocky life. Critics praised the audio quality but panned its smart features, which made its $350 price tag difficult to recommend to most people. Even when Apple dropped the price to $299, too many people thought the speaker simply wasn’t worth it. Some of those people might’ve told you…Read more...

You spend hours on your iPhone every day, and a good chunk of that time is spent typing away on the keyboard. By now, you have certainly learned the basics, like how you can swipe on the keyboard instead of typing, or how the globe key can help you switch among different keyboards. But there are several other hidden…Read more...

There’s a reason we’re more sympathetic when we see an animal killed in a movie than a person: Animals are innocents, and didn’t ask for any of this. This is why pet owners mistreating their dogs—even by accident or out of sheer ignorance—is so egregious. It’s hard to say how many dog owners commit the sins we’ll…Read more...

According to the MLB Fan Cost Index, the average family of four spent $253 last year on an outing to a professional baseball game, and due to an increase in inflation vendors are already warning this number is likely to increase this year. With the MLB season underway and summer just around the corner, here’s a few…Read more...

With the arrival of spring promising warmer, sunnier afternoons ahead, spending more time in your yard sounds inviting. But sipping your morning coffee on your deck while gazing at your neighbor’s garbage cans doesn’t sound quite so peaceful. Whether you’ve got nosey neighbors or just want to cut back on street noise,…Read more...

Blessed be this day, and a good April Twentieth to you all. Like many of you, I’ve spent some time on the internet while high and hungry. And while I’ve come up with some truly great innovations when dealing with the munchies, redditor /u/Vainquisher may have bested all of my efforts, posting an absolute banger last…Read more...

I’m sure you’re great in bed. I’m sure you’re a god! But since you clicked on this article, you’re probably at least open to the idea that there could maybe, possibly be room for improvement in your sex life.

A new Nicolas Cage movie is dropping this week, and it’s the broadest theatrical release for a Cage movie since the long-ago, pre-Covid era. In The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, the actor plays...Nicolas Cage in a bit of meta-style shenaniganery. The early reviews have been pretty good, which is good, because…Read more...

There is a uniquely American phenomenon anyone living in or visiting the states is familiar with: A commercial full of happy, smiling people appears on television. A narrator declares that a brand-name drug is changing the lives of people with, say, psoriasis. A faster voice runs down a list of potential side effects…Read more...

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Those pushing for nationwide cannabis legalization hope to see the industry become a fully realized and regulated marketplace, as opposed to the patchwork of more or less restrictive local regulations and a whole lot of old weed in Mylar bags that some find it today.Read more...

Drinking wine is fun—the classy kind of fun—and nothing ruins classy fun like grimy little smudges and spots. If I’m serving wine to friends, family, and/or nemeses, I need my glasses to sparkle, baby. I have a (very specific) reputation to maintain, after all. (I may not be what society thinks of as “classy,” but I…Read more...

A federal judge in Florida struck down the federal mandate that called for passengers to be masked on all forms of public transportation, including on airplanes and trains. So does that mean masks are gone everywhere? Not exactly.