How to Tell if a News Site Is Reliable

How to Tell if a News Site Is Reliable
It’s happened before, and with another presidential election looming next year, it’s going to happen again and again. The spread of “fake news,” the incorrect labeling of real news as “fake,” and overall confusion as to how to tell the difference. Read more... from Lifehacker http://bit.ly/2IRz2JO http://bit.ly/2V...
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How to Stop a Recording From Waking Alexa

How to Stop a Recording From Waking Alexa
Lifehacker recently published a video in which two subjects test the functions of an Amazon Echo. Soon after, our Senior Technology Editor, David Murphy alerted the video team that anyone watching the video at home through speakers would find their Echo repeatedly activated each time someone in the video spoke the wake… Read...
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What Was Your Best Hackintosh Experience?

What Was Your Best Hackintosh Experience?
One of Lifehacker’s most-loved posts, our guide to hackintoshes, is starting to show its age. It’s time to give this article a fresh coat of paint, but before renovation work begins, I wanted to hear about your experiences with every geek’s big dream: the ability to run macOS on a non-Apple device. Read more... from...
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How to Find a LGBTQ-Affirming Therapist

How to Find a LGBTQ-Affirming Therapist
Finding the right therapist—someone you trust, someone you like, someone you click with—is important for anyone to ensure their therapy is effective. But for those who identify as LGBTQ, finding a therapist who is LGBTQ or LGBTQ-affirming is critical for creating a safe, supportive space. Read more... from Lifehacker...
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You're Probably Overcooking Your Garlic

You're Probably Overcooking Your Garlic
Once upon a time, it became common practice to add onions and garlic to a hot pan at the same time. I think it had something to do with “letting flavors mingle,” but I’m not sure. Though they are both alliums, the two cook at dramatically different rates, and adding them together results in bitter, acrid bits of… Read...
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How to Negotiate Like a Pro, With Personal Finance Expert Farnoosh Torabi

How to Negotiate Like a Pro, With Personal Finance Expert Farnoosh Torabi
We’re back! This week we’re learning about the ins and outs of negotiation. We’ll find out how to get someone to “yes” when they’re all about “no”; when and how the robots are going to negotiate for us; and what to do to get the raise you deserve. Joining us is author, podcaster, and personal-finance expert Farnoosh… Read...
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How Was Your Month of Running?

How Was Your Month of Running?
During this running-focused chapter of the Lifehacker Fitness Challenge, we tried out a bunch of maybe-new-to-you workouts: strides, tempo runs, hill repeats, speedwork on the track, and long runs. Did you try them all? Which was your favorite? Read more... from Lifehacker http://bit.ly/2GS7aTv http://bit.ly/2J3Zc...
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The Fridge Organizers That Will Save You From Tossing Long-Lost and Expired Food

The Fridge Organizers That Will Save You From Tossing Long-Lost and Expired Food
Your fridge has rotting food in it. I know it, you know it, the American people know it. But unless you’re one of those people who lives in ads for incredibly expensive refrigerators with French doors and touch-screen computers, you’re set up for failure. Things are destined to get shoved, jostled, and otherwise… Read...
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You Should Create a Family Motto

You Should Create a Family Motto
When we were foster parents to a nine-year-old boy a couple of years ago, my husband and I implemented a family motto. It was one that was suggested to a group of us during a foster parenting training session, a mantra that is often used when parenting kids with trauma: “No hurts, stick together, have fun.” Read more... from...
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Make Salad Prep Easier With Kitchen Shears

Make Salad Prep Easier With Kitchen Shears
Salads, in my opinion, should be a fork-only operation. Once the salad is prepared—preferably in a large mixing bowl—one should be able to stab and shovel the greens and various toppings into one’s mouth, without use of a knife. Actually, I barely use a knife during the salad-making process—scissors are my salad prep… Read...
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Does Exercising in Makeup Cause Acne?

Does Exercising in Makeup Cause Acne?
I don’t wear makeup to work out, but I also don’t judge—partly because the heaviest makeup I’ve ever seen at the gym was on a regular who was super-jacked. Whatever she was doing, it was working for her! But I’ve often heard whispers about those people who work out in makeup. Isn’t it ruining their skin?? Read more... from...
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What's Coming and Going From Netflix the Week of April 29, 2019

What's Coming and Going From Netflix the Week of April 29, 2019
It’s May, and your cup runneth over—if not in all areas of your life, then at least the most important one: the area in which you recline on your sectional, eating Pop Corners while alternately watching TV and playing on your phone (some call this area the “living room”; I prefer “salon” or “parlour”). We’ve got Knock… Read...
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