The human body isn’t just your cells, but a home for trillions of bacteria. We know that many of those bacteria serve important purposes, and imbalances or a lack of diversity could lead to illness. But research into this field is pretty new. At least, new enough that you shouldn’t just transplant someone else’s gut…
In season 3 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Kimmy goes to a college party for the first time, and a boy asks her to sign a contract before they’re about to kiss. Consent has become more widely discussed on college campuses, but there’s still a lot of confusion on the topic.
If you’ve ever looked at someone’s selfie and thought “They are so vain,” you might be making an unfair assumption. A recent study suggests most selfie-takers aren’t into themselves any more than normal people.
“What’s a bad thing everyone should experience once?” asks Redditor tyga23. And /r/AskReddit users have some great answers. All of these experiences help build empathy, teach a lesson, or help you appreciate the good things in life.
Happy weekend, and welcome back to 3-Ingredient Happy Hour, the weekly drink column featuring super simple yet delicious libations. This week I’m feeling a Bellini-inspired beverage that’s just a bit more tropical, a bit more booze-y, and bit more rum-y.
Hello all you Internet sexbuckets of frottage, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column to be ported to the SNES Classic. This week, we’re facing some difficult situations, asking hard questions and delivering some tough love. When your wedding is just weeks away, how do you know if what you’re…
Apple’s default camera app is a multifaceted photo capture tool, and simple enough to use. From panoramas to videos to HDR pictures, you can capture a variety of images, but can’t reach that granularity you might want if you’re trying to frame that perfect shot. Photographers looking for more control should check out …
Welcome back to Dose of Reality, where we see whether the week’s health news is really worth worrying—or celebrating—about. Today we’re facing down death and disease, and the news is actually mostly good!
The world of public intellectuals has been replaced by an inferior mob of “thought leaders,” says Daniel Drezner in his new book The Ideas Industry. These thinkers, rather than examining the world as it is, tend to push “big ideas” with unscientific bases that catch the public imagination. For example, in his book The…
Need to get your body beach-ready? This resistance band set lets you get a full workout in any room in your house, and at $16 (with code SF3B9O46), it’s quite a bit more cost-effective than joining a gym.
Ten years ago, I muscled a guy down the aisle. We had been together for six years, the relationship was becalmed, and I had pretty much decided that marriage was the only thing that would blow us out of our doldrums: We’d be official, we’d have kids, we’d have a decent set of dish towels. He reluctantly agreed.
Reading stories to my four-year-old daughter right before she goes to sleep is a simple joy, a time when we’re snuggled together side by side, giggling at a baby with a mustache or a duck-chef possibly falling into a pot of soup.
Welcome to this week’s edition of Will It Sous Vide?, the weekly column where I usually make whatever you want me to with my immersion circulator. I spent the earlier part of this week working on a super secret and exciting sous-vide project, so I decided to try a quick and easy experiment for this week’s column, and…
A great deal on the Ecobee3 smart thermostat, a Harmony remote with the all-powerful Harmony Hub, and camping hammocks lead off Friday’s best deals from around the web.
Another month, another money challenge in the books. In June, we challenged you to get out of debt faster by negotiating your credit card interest rate. How’d you do?
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It’s that time of year again—the time where we American humans decide to blow things up in order to celebrate the birth of our country. But it just so happens that humans and explosions don’t get along so well—and they never have.
Before you have kids, the beach is easy. You amble down with nothing but a towel and a bottle of water; maybe you rent an umbrella and stick it in the sand with the ease of Zeus tossing a thunderbolt. Sun protection is a big hat and a dab of Coppertone. But once you procreate? Hannibal crossed the Alps with less…
The new Ecobee4 smart thermostat has Alexa built right in, but the previous generation Ecobee3 is still great, and Amazon’s clearing them out for an all-time low $170 right now. That’s about the same price as an Ecobee Lite, but you get an all-important remote temperature sensor, plus the ability to control HVAC…
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that parts of Donald Trump’s travel ban were acceptable, leading the State Department to create a set of new guidelines on the ban, which applies to nationals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, with a few exceptions. To travel to the US from those six Muslim-majority…
As Jezebel reports, architectural criticism blog McMansion Hell, which takes pictures from real estate listings and adds witty and educational commentary, is fighting a legal threat from real estate site Zillow, which demanded that blogger Kate Wagner remove all images sourced from their site. The digital-rights…
Losing your favorite piece of jewelry sucks. Losing your wedding ring: that’s a nightmare. You could always rent a metal detector and sweep the area yourself, but The Ring Finders, a group of jewelry-finding enthusiasts, are better equipped to help you find your lost jewelry.
Today I spit my Lucky Charms all over my laptop screen after seeing this bone-stock Jeep Cherokee for sale on Ebay for nearly $16,000. The seller’s reasoning for selling the Jeep at such a lofty price was a typical one: it’s a one-owner car. My thought upon reading this: why should I give a crap?
No one can get away with white, flaky beard dandruff—not even Santa Claus. It’s itchy, unsightly, and can turn a dark-colored shirt into a warning sign for those who might otherwise be attracted to you.
It takes 10 years or 10,000 hours of practice to become a world-class musician, according to a few studies that are extrapolated as if they can explain success in every skilled profession (they can’t). So what does it really take to become an Olympic caliber athlete? A new analysis gives us some clues.
Renowned chef/forest sprite René Redzepi has released an app called VILD MAD
to help you find “delicious edibles” by using your phone. As someone who enjoys a good forage (and looking at her phone), VILD MAD seemed like an app that could definitely improve my quality of life, so I downloaded it onto said phone and set…
Achievements might be arbitrary indicators that you Did A Thing, but they’re still thrilling to earn. On Steam, you can even put achievements on display and turn your profile into a gleaming monument to your accomplishments. Some developers have recently taken to front-loading subpar games with thousands of…
When my four-year-old misbehaves (and boy, does she), I have about 3.7 seconds to run through a litany of possible parental responses in my brain, and choose one.
The trend for laptop design has always leaned toward thinner, not fatter, leaving less space for ventilation. That makes a whining fan during intensive work like photo editing or gaming an unwanted but common occurrence, especially when combined with the summer heat.
It’s a long holiday weekend, you guys! That means beach trips, mountain getaways, lakeside barbecues, and traffic headaches from Seattle to Orlando. Now, in my family we generally we decide to pack up right after Friday breakfast, but because we have two small kids and are fairly disorganized, we inevitably end up…
Over 7,000 furries are coming to Pittsburgh this weekend for Anthrocon, the annual convention for people who dress like wolves, dragons, and combination wolf-dragons. The convention includes a public parade, which last year featured 2,100 participants. Anthrocon rep John Cole gave the Incline some etiquette tips for…
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So you’ve taken the leap and decided to offer your home as a cozy place to stay for weary travelers, tourists, and vacationers. You can list your house on Airbnb, VRBO, HomeAway, or one of a handful of other vacation rental sites, but you want to make sure that listing looks as inviting as possible to attract…
iPhone: Your favorite artist dropped a new album at midnight, and you wish you could be right next to your best friend to listen to it track-by-track and freak out over how great the music is, but unfortunately you’re both in different places. Normally, you’d think the solution is to put the phone on speaker and just…
Nintendo put a great deal of thought into the design of the Switch with the exception of the alternative Pro Controller, which feels like an afterthought. It might be official, and a perfect way to play Nintendo Switch games on a TV, but it comes with a steep price tag, and a bulky design that flies in the face of…
Logitech computing gear, High Sierra bags and luggage, and early access Prime Day deals lead off Thursday’s best deals from around the web.
There’s something uniquely summery about mixing up a beer cocktail. Pairing fizzy beer with something harder not only results in a larger-than-average drink that you can keep sip on for a spell, but a bit of extra booze will get you buzzed before you get bloated.
In season 3 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Kimmy goes to a college party for the first time, and a boy asks her to sign a contract before they’re about to kiss. Consent has become more widely discussed on college campuses, but there’s still a lot of confusion on the topic.
Whether you’re in the market for a new keyboard, mouse, webcam, or gaming headset, Amazon’s got what you need in today’s Logitech Gold Box.
Making a mistake big enough to get you fired is a situation no one wants to be in, but knowing how to react could save you from losing your job. Here’s what to do, if you ever find yourself in such an awful spot.
Mark your calendars, because Amazon’s third annual Prime Day is July 11, with the deals actually kicking off at 9PM ET the night before.
Congratulations, you’ve downloaded the iOS 11 beta! No doubt you’ve by now had your fun experimenting with Apple’s latest operating system packed with new features like a QR code-friendly camera app, a customizable control center, and a file manager app (named, unfortunately, Files).
Do you always install your air conditioner on a sweltering summer day, or rush to do your taxes in mid-April? For absolutely necessary tasks like these, a to-do list isn’t always enough. You need to block out time on your calendar, and treat these tasks like actual appointments. We’ve listed all the best to-do items…
So, what’s your problem? You don’t have any? OK, what’s your lover’s problem? Oh, crap, they just dumped you. Bummer. Uhh, how about your mom? What’s your mom’s problem? She’s dead!? I’m so sorry. Any problems with your boss? You’re unemployed. Hm.
Welcome back to Mid-Week Meditations, Lifehacker’s weekly dip into the pool of stoic wisdom, and how you can use its waters to reflect on and improve your life.
It’s perfectly legal to pass through airport security with breast milk, even without a baby in tow, but the rules don’t always hold up in real life when you’re just a parent standing in front of a TSA agent, asking him to let you get on a plane with your ice-cold packs of human sustenance.
Ms Yeah is a very creative YouTube personality known for her unusual cooking videos, but her most recent video shows the enterprising internet star putting food on and around her face, rather than in it.
Ask any person to name a Native American tribe and you’ll probably come up with the same handful of names (or a blank stare). But visualization tool Native Land can help you identify hundreds of tribes, even ones in your current town. It’s a colorful and informative visualization and gateway to a history of which you…
We’ve been hearing a lot about the 22 million people who will lose coverage under the Better Care Reconciliation Act, and how much more insurance will cost on the individual market. But what if you have coverage through work? Turns out you’re not immune to the effects of the bill. There’s plenty of bad news to go…
There are precious few battery packs out there with USB-C power delivery, and this 30,000mAh model from Aukey is one of the most affordable we’ve seen.
If you’re packing your laptop in a checked bag, the best advice is probably don’t do it. From lost luggage to lost data, there’s so much that can go wrong. With the threat of a laptop ban looming, though, you may not have a choice. Whatever the circumstance, you want to keep your laptop safe once you drop off your bag…
