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Eggs are both simple and complex. They’re one of the easiest foods you can learn how to cook, but can be prepared in a seemingly endless amount of interesting and complex ways. From a chemical perspective, they are absolutely bonkers, packed with all sorts of proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and (some) minerals. And,…Read more...

If you find yourself unwillingly hosting scratchy, scurrying vermin in your kitchen—and you’re pretty sure you hear them rattling around in your stove and oven—you’re not alone. Mice are attracted to the warmth of the pilot light and plentiful crumbs and leftover food scraps in and around your oven. Here’s how you can…Read more...

There’s a right and a wrong direction to face when you’re squatting.Read more...

The other day I ran across this video of an anonymous woman carrying an annoyed lion down the street. The video was taken in the Sabahiya district of Kuwait, where the woman reportedly keeps that lion as a pet. It recently escaped and terrorized the neighborhood, but she got it back. If you would like to be mildly…Read more...

If you own retro consoles—say, a Super Nintendo or a Sega Genesis—you have access to some of gaming’s greatest roots. However, you might find plugging these awesome consoles into your current TV doesn’t result in the experience you remember from years past. Games look fuzzy and distorted, and it can be tempting to…Read more...

Considering that the average person spends about 26 years of their life sleeping, how we take care of our mattress matters. But a mattress is easy to forget about. Most of the time, it’s invisible, obscured by sheets and too many throw pillows. As long as it does its job, we may not even think about it until it’s time…Read more...

You already know smoking is bad for you. There are billboards and commercials and pictures of skulls on cigarette boxes to tell you this, as if you won’t also hear terse comments from strangers offended by your puffs of smoke as you walk by them in the street. At this point, anyone who smokes does so with the…Read more...

I love kids. I know how to change a diaper. I know how to sit back and groove to Encanto. But what I need to know is how to get an intimidating 9-year-old to actually respect, enjoy, or (more realistically) simply tolerate me.

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At-home rapid tests for COVID-19 instruct you to stir a cotton swab inside each nostril before sliding the swab into its little testing tube or card. But some people have posted pictures on social media comparing a negative at-home nasal swab with a positive at-home throat swab, and even some experts are saying that…Read more...

Betty White’s first role came in 1930, playing an orphan in a schmaltzy radio drama called “The Empire Builders.” Her final appearance will come a few weeks from now, as part of filmed birthday tribute for theaters. In the 91 years between, she’s been a local television star, a game show guest and host, movie actor,…Read more...

We don’t talk a lot about weight loss here at Lifehacker, mostly because weight loss is a thing that our culture talks far too much about. Pay attention to it a little too long, and you’re on a slippery slope of “thinner is better” and thinking of food and exercise only in terms of how they can make your body smaller.

I will always love the dirty martini. It was my gateway into the wild and wonderful world of gin, and I love any excuse to drink brine. After all, the key to making a classic dirty martini lies in letting the brine replace—rather than supplement—some of the vermouth, so as not to over-dilute the gin.Read more...

If you haven’t personally caught any variant of COVID-19 by this point, you might have an attitude of “well, I’m gonna get it eventually.” That isn’t necessarily true (nor is it the best attitude to have), but it sure can feel that way.

As a lifelong Mac user, I always love learning about something hidden feature of my computer, such as the ability to change your mouse’s cursor color. So you can imagine my delight in stumbling upon this Reddit thread, where user OOF_V2 shared a hidden treasure trove of Apple product icons lurking within MacOS.Read more...

One main aspect of food writing is identifying recipes and methods that let you get food on the table and into your mouth as quickly and with as few dirty dishes as possible. This is especially important if you are talking about food that must be eaten on a weeknight, the kind of night which demands efficiency. Enter…Read more...

It’s winter. The days are short, the nights are cold, and the post-holiday serotonin levels, they are a-dropping. Omicron and inflation are surging and it’s Dry January, a time during which, many of us attempt to cope without booze. You know what this moment calls for? Some nicely folded fucking towels.

Competitive sports often require special spaces or equipment, and that’s true of most strength sports. Weightlifting (the kind they do in the Olympics) requires bouncy bumper plates and a gym that won’t mind if you drop them from overhead. Strongman training uses a variety of unusual equipment you won’t find in your…Read more...

January’s full moon, sometimes called the Wolf Moon, will rise on the northeastern horizon on Monday, Jan. 17 at 6:51 pm, East Coast time. The moon will look full for three nights, beginning on Sunday and ending on Wednesday.

When I first started coaching, I would often have to talk a new client off the ledge of despair. They would look at their training plan and get overwhelmed by the prospect of so many workouts and long runs.

After I lost my salad spinner in the divorce, I resisted replacing it for several years. I was in the habit of buying pre-washed leaves for my salads—and living in a tiny studio apartment—so a bulky, dedicated drying device for greens didn’t seem like a necessity.

Depending who they’re from, gift cards can be a lovely gift. (Read: Not from a life partner, who should intuitively know you want the Ninja AF101 Air Fryer with auto-shutoff and 30 included recipes.) Gift cards take up little space and allow you to shop guilt-free—perhaps even splurge on yourself—because hey, free…Read more...

Google is set to release Chrome 97, the next update for the company’s popular desktop and mobile browser. The update comes just under two months after Chrome 96, and with it, brings some interesting changes to the browser. While most of these concern developers, day-to-day users will notice a few fun features, as well.

The highly transmissible Omicron variant continues to drive a surge of infections across the country. According to the CDC’s COVID data tracker, the seven-day average for COVID-19 hospitalizations increased by more than 40% during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. And in light of this current wave, many…Read more...

“Dry January”—like its sister month, “Sober October”—is, for me, marked by a sudden influx of annoying PR emails: seltzer, soda, tea, and juice brands fill my inbox with all sorts of beverage “recipes” aimed at people who are trying not to drink. Most of them are elaborate, but knowing how to make a fancy mocktail isn’…Read more...

Without diving too deeply into the divided responses to Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrections, it’s clear that late sequels are becoming increasingly the norm. If a once-popular property can be revived, it will be, if there’s even a single cast member still alive (though technology, I suppose, is making even that…Read more...

The new Netflix movie Don’t Look Up has generated some...strong responses from critics and social media. The quickly moving zeitgeist has shifted from its initial assessment (“It’s bad!”), to more measured takes that praise the film’s unique virtues, to hyperbolic promises that it will serve as a watershed moment in…Read more...

Toilets are funny things. When we have easy access to a clean, working one, we don’t think about them too much. But when we’re stuck someplace without one, toilets quickly become an obsession—and when one in your home malfunctions, it is promoted to The Most Important Thing in Your Life, Currently. You simply haven’t…Read more...

For lawn care and all manner of outdoor (and indoor) DIY projects, your shed is often your main storage vessel. All those tools and materials can get pretty spendy, though—especially if you’re buying it all new. Luckily, there are plenty of used items you can snag that are still good quality and save you the sticker…Read more...

If you unwrapped a new guitar this Christmas season, or your dad handed you down his old axe, you probably need to get it professionally set up. A proper setup for your guitar can mean the difference between a buzzy, hard-to-play nightmare that kills your both your fingers and ears and a beautiful musical instrument.

No matter how much money you have, you’ll find a way to spend it. The same principle applies to freezer space. And sure, a packed freezer runs more efficiently, but that’s not why I’m staring at an impenetrable wall of frosted mysteries. Like most people, my freezer is the graveyard of my kitchen.

There are a variety of reasons why someone might decide to reduce their intake of caffeine—or cut themselves off completely—that have nothing to do with resolutions. But ‘tis the season for attempting to make changes in our lives that we’ll likely abandon in a few weeks.Read more...

The dock is one of the most distinguishing aspects of macOS. It offers you an easy way to launch your favorite apps quickly without cluttering up your desktop. However, the dock itself can become a bit of eyesore if the icon sizes don’t match up. If you find yourself staring at an extraordinarily large app icon, and…Read more...

Having what you need to respond to an emergency is important, but so are the tools to keep an emergency from happening in the first place. We’re going to cover a little of both: here are some often-forgotten essentials to keep your car and passengers as safe as possible when you’re out on the road.

Seeing some green poking through the snow or cold, winter ground is one of the most visible signs of spring. But seeing how we’re not even a month into winter, it’ll take some time before that happens. Unless, of course, you’ve been growing bulbs inside.Read more...

The Apple Watch is a great companion for your iPhone—but all great things have bad days, and the Apple Watch is no exception. Software bugs can make the watch slow to respond, and when they do, a quick restart is usually a good solution. However, sometimes the Apple Watch stops responding entirely; when that happens,…Read more...

Well, we did it. We made it through the shopping and wrapping, the tree almost falling over, and the antics of 12 Santa-drunk children on the most exciting day of their lives. We said good riddance to 2021, and ushered in a new year. The decorations are down, the baking sheets are stored, and the mood is, well...…Read more...

Having a dog impacts many different aspects of your life—from your travel plans, to your household expenses, to the amount of fur on your clothing. But one of the biggest things that changes after getting a dog (some types more than others) is your home.Read more...

When I think of Paul Thomas Anderson, chill hangout vibes aren’t what generally comes to mind. More like the cocaine-tinged tragic-comic edginess of porno drama Boogie Nights, or the surreal operatic swells of the capitalism-as-apocalypse period piece There Will Be Blood. But here we are, at the tail end of 2021, and…Read more...

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For the most part, air travel involves dealing with one hassle after another. From getting to and from the airport, to dealing with unruly or unreasonable fellow passengers on your flight, it tends not to be a very pleasant experience.Read more...

While there seem to be cleaning products formulated for any type of stain, mess, or grime you can think of, some people—for a variety of reasons—prefer to take more of a chemistry-class-approach to household cleaning, working directly with the acids and bases used to make those products.Read more...

The start of a new calendar year has long been viewed as a chance to get a fresh start—including in the kitchen. For nearly two years now, the COVID-19 pandemic has been responsible for millions of illnesses and deaths, in addition to a major spike in the popularity of cooking and baking at home. And not only that,…Read more...

When it comes to window treatments, the terminology can get a little confusing—starting with “window treatment” itself. Is it a protective coating for windows, or a process like treating wood? Is it referring to the ways to fix broken or aging windows? (You get the picture.)

Even though you’re probably not using your outdoor faucet or spigot as much during the winter as you do during the summer (or at all), that doesn’t mean you can just forget about it for the whole season. That’s because if your outdoor faucet, pipes, and the water inside them freezes, it could result in burst pipes,…Read more...

Despite what manufacturers want you to think, buying an expensive, high-end mattress isn’t going to magically solve all of your sleep problems. Sleeping on a mattress that sags or dips in the middle can, however, make it much harder to get a restful night’s sleep.Read more...

Podcasts can be a place to go to stay informed about the...current state of things. Or they can be the place we go for comfort, entertainment, and to forget about the current state of things. This year, the Lifehacker staff turned to podcasts for all of the above. Here’s a list of our favorite episodes, from an…Read more...

It’s always worthwhile to try a new activity, I think. Even if you don’t surprise yourself by falling in love with it, you’ll probably learn something about yourself in the process. Lifehacker staffers have tried a variety of sports, tech, and habits over the past year, and here are some of the top lessons we’ve…Read more...

When you’re taking a few minutes to quickly tidy up your home, you probably focus on what’s most visible—things like floors, countertops, and stuff at eye-level. Even when you’re doing more of a thorough cleaning, you may not think to look up, leaving your ceiling fans (literally) in the dust.Read more...

Talk about a year for the iPhone and iPad—new devices across the board and tons of software updates, including the much-anticipated iOS 15. All that news means a lot of change and plenty of advice to share. Whether you’re an Apple fanatic or just someone who appreciates a good feature for their iPhone, we have…Read more...