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As we gear up for the great American grilling day, there’s something important you need to know that you may not have thought about: if your marinade has had raw meat sitting in it, it’s full of raw meat germs.Read more...

Visit any restaurant with a children’s menu and it’s likely you’ll see crayons scattered across tables that will be disposed of after a single day’s use.

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Babies cry. It’s a feature, not a bug. Sure, we all know this before getting into the whole parenthood thing, but I don’t think any experience—being seated next to a tiny screamer on an airplane, holding a shrieking nephew as his bottle is prepped, or even living above an infant in full sleep-training mode—could ever…Read more...

Never fly with fireworks (or anything even close to fireworks). Fireworks are considered explosive devices that could ignite mid-flight, and the TSA will confiscate them from any carry-ons or checked luggage.Read more...

With the news that my favorite series for random bingeing is leaving Netflix, and knowing fully well that I’m not going to sign up for even more streaming services, I contemplated buying all of The Office last week. I didn’t pull the trigger, however, because I have no idea whether the prices I was seeing were killer…Read more...

So your kid is heading off to college, and you want to give them one last hurrah before they enter the great land of dorm room pranks, energy drinks and figuring out how the hell to be an adult. What to do? Throw them a trunk party.Read more...

Very few things, particularly at the moment, make me proud to be an American, but there certainly is a lot to drink about. The cocktail is an American invention, so I guess we can celebrate that, and we might as well do so with an Americano, an Italian drink named for its popularity with American expats (immigrants!)…Read more...

So much of death is a mystery, between how and when we’re going to go, if there’s anything beyond the grave—you know, all the pleasant stuff. But while a lot of this is out of our control, there is one aspect of our impending deaths that we usually can choose: what happens to our body.

Jumping back and forth between your phone and your PC can be annoying. Some messaging apps have web clients, so you don’t have to open your device to carry on a conversation. But there’s an easier way to reply to messages, check notifications, and open your Android device’s screen without having to take your eyes off…Read more...

My dad was the first person to introduce me to shadow puppets. When my sister and I were tiny kids, he would tuck us into bed, turn off the lights and then cast an image of a dog against the wall. He’d curl in his index finger, lift his thumb and open and close his pinkie while barking. Sometimes, he’d do a bunny or…Read more...

If you haven’t booked a summer getaway yet, here’s your chance: Until Thursday night, Frontier Airlines is having a major sale and offering one-way tickets for as little as $25 this summer.

If you spend any amount of time listening to the radio in your car, you’ve probably heard a few “six months same as cash” ads. If you’re not in the market for a mattress, washing machine or used car, you probably don’t think much about these ads. But someday, you will want to make a large purchase for a tangible item.…Read more...

Divorce is hilarious! That’s why HBO made a whole show named after it (season 3 just started, SJP fans represent). It’s also why there’s a funny subreddit called r/DivorcedBirds. It explores tropes you didn’t even realize you had stored in the back of your mind about divorce, breakups, mid-life crises, and the…Read more...

Life can be hard for a pup. You finally get one day where your humans are home and bringing strangers to pet you and feeding you leftover barbecue, and then all evening there are terrifyingly loud noises. Here’s how to comfort your doggo on the fourth.Read more...

I love deviled eggs, but they are finicky little buggers, particularly if you’re prone to being overly precious with presentation. This might be a “me” issue, but peeling, scooping, and refilling the eggs without marring the white has always stressed me out. (I am easily stressed.) But there’s an easier way: just make…Read more...

The next time you visit your doctor for an annual checkup, physical, or Well Woman exam, don’t just bring your insurance card. Arriving at your appointment with the right questions can help you learn more about your overall health, ensure you’re getting the right preventative care, and even ease those late-night…Read more...

If you’re reading this at work, you are probably worried that something you’re doing right now is slowly killing you. The accumulated years of slouched spinal posture, squinting at a screen and sitting (“the new smoking”) are sources of health paranoia for the 80 percent of the workforce whose jobs do not regularly…Read more...

On AirbnbHell.com—a website devoted to nightmare experiences on Airbnb—guests share their stories of staying in rentals with ant and cockroach infestations, units with “fake” seaside views, and apartments that don’t even exist.

A lot of personal finance advice gets caught up in the little things—the cup of coffee you buy in the morning for $3. The streaming music subscription for $9.99 per month. Cut out these small expenses and clutch those dollar bills and you’ll save thousands of dollars each year. But of course it’s not that easy.Read more...

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I love me some Mo Willems, so when Mo Willems gives me parenting advice, I take Mo Willems’ parenting advice. (If you don’t know who Mo Willems is, please go check out his wonderfully quirky Pigeon book series for kids, plus Knuffle Bunny, which is an all-time fave in my house.)Read more...

For some reason, certain people feel it is their obligation to tell others—usually women—to smile. Clearly, this is problematic for many reasons, but as someone on the receiving end of those comments pretty frequently, I especially hate when people attempt to use science to try and convince me to put on a happy face.

It’s much, much easier to run Windows on a Mac than macOS on a Windows machine, but that doesn’t mean that this crazy hybrid environment is always going to be perfect. Microsoft recently released a bulletin that explains why you might be encountering some issues if you’re trying to update to the latest version of…Read more...

Many of us can remember the first time we used our money—our very own money—to purchase something we’ve been pining for. Maybe it was a Sharp boombox or a pair of roller skates or a see-through phone. We saved up our allowance and all those $2 bills that Aunt Tess would slip into her birthday cards and exchanged it…Read more...

July 1 marks the beginning of a new academic year at teaching hospitals. That means it’s the date when newly minted doctors begin their first jobs, and some people (often including hospital staff) will swear it’s the worst time to seek medical care.Read more...

Barbecue sauce is such a polarizing condiment. Just as with the act of barbecuing, variations in style across the country can lead to heated arguments, scathing polemics, and outright ad hominem attacks. But—similar to pizza—I don’t really have any loyalty to one style or another. I like it all. One thing I cannot…Read more...

Chances are good that you’ve heard of the “compliment sandwich” technique for giving criticism. Praise, followed by criticism, followed by more praise. It’s supposed to be used as a way to soften the criticism, although it can come off as insincere if not delivered well. Its cousin, though—which one psychologist calls…Read more...

Is that mole looking suspicious? You can download an app to check out an individual mole, or to keep track of the moles on your body, but none of these apps can substitute for getting checked out by an actual dermatologist.Read more...

Sunglasses are one of the few items that can simultaneously help protect your health and serve as a stylish accessory. As tempting as it is to buy a pair based solely on how cool they make you look, it’s also a good idea to check their tag and make sure they actually offer your eyes some protection.

Nobody likes annoying internet advertisements, that’s for sure. And it’s even creepier when you visit one website, do the web’s equivalent of a little window-shopping, and suddenly find ads for that site plastered over every other site you’re looking at.Read more...

In an interview last week regarding privacy concerns, Instagram’s CEO, Adam Mosseri, wants you to know: Your privacy isn’t at stake (for now). “We don’t look at your messages, we don’t listen in on your microphone, doing so would be super problematic for a lot of different reasons,” he told CBS’ Gayle King. “But I…Read more...

Plenty of us rely on public transportation, but there are times when your local transit system is anything but reliable. Those of us who use it to commute are used to being packed into buses and subway cars, but sometimes there are just too many passengers and you can’t board—or worse, your bus zooms past you because…Read more...

You just made the last payment on a large purchase you’ve been paying off for what seems like forever. A celebration is in order, right? Go ahead, dance in your seat as you hit that “pay now” button for the very last time. Crack open some bubbly. Call your mom. But don’t expect your credit report to reflect that…Read more...

If you’ve ever had one too many white wine spritzers at a family function, you know the effects of waking up the next morning with a nasty hangover.Read more...

I am but a lowly apartment renter and, as such, do not have a yard, nor do I have a grill to put in a yard. This means that all my grilling is done in other people’s yards, which is inconvenient, particularly if I wish to entertain over BBQ-focused holiday weekends. Luckily, I know how to make some very good-tasting…Read more...

Stress and anxiety never fully disappear from your life; they only move from target to target. But dealing with your next worry can be easier if you reflect on your past worries. Reviewing old worries gives you perspective, shows you what matters in the long run, and reminds you of challenges overcome or simply…Read more...

Once, I saw my husband showing our daughter some YouTube videos of the rides at a local theme park. These were not the new wild rides, but the slow kiddie ones. He pointed out the details. “See, you drive around in a loop,” he said. She stared at the screen intently.

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Who among us has not woken up one day to find themselves deeply ensconced in a good old-fashioned workplace rut? It certainly happens with the job you’ve been kind of meh about from Day 1, but that dream job you landed four years ago isn’t immune from The Rut either. No matter how motivated we may start out, there is…Read more...

If you’re reading this, you’re probably not on vacation—at least I hope you don’t read Lifehacker posts while hiking or sunbathing. Hey, we can’t all take off for every holiday and four-day weekend. When everyone else is creating Insta stories on the beach, how do you inject a little bit of vacation into your regular…Read more...

In the weeks following the deaths of nine American tourists visiting the Dominican Republic, hundreds of travelers who’ve visited the country have reported their own food poisoning-like symptoms on the website IWasPoisoned.com; since the start of 2019, over 1,600 cases of illness have been reported in total.Read more...

I didn’t learn to drive until I was 27. I grew up in cities, so there wasn’t a great need, and more importantly I was stone cold terrified: when I tried to drive my then-boyfriend’s car at age 18, I screamed bloody murder every time I braked and shut my eyes during turns. It made for an eventful trip to the recycling…Read more...

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While the safety of a plane depends more on how it’s maintained by the airline than its age, a plane’s age can play a pretty critical role in how comfortable you are while you’re on board. Older planes are going to be the ones that don’t have screens for in-flight entertainment, or the ones that have a poor…Read more...

Despite every digital retailers’ best efforts to be the singular platform of choice, most of us have our media purchases fractured across multiple accounts. Depending on how much you’ve purchased, it can be hard to remember where your individual movies and TV episodes live. “Did I buy John Wick on Amazon Prime, or was…Read more...

If you won’t be in Chile or Argentina for tomorrow’s total solar eclipse, the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco will go for you, bringing you live-stream coverage as the moon casts its shadow across parts of South America and the South Pacific.Read more...

Last Friday marked a small but still significant milestone in the development of 5G because when T-Mobile flipped on its 5G network in six cities across the country, it meant all four major U.S. carriers finally had some form of publicly available 5G coverage up and running.Read more...

Buying a jar of pickled sushi ginger will change your dang life. It calms my anxiety surrounding take-out sushi, yes, but I also like to add the ginger and its brine to salads, dressings, and drinks. (It’s also a fine snack, straight from the jar.)Read more...