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Susan Orlean is the best-selling author of such books as The Orchid Thief and most recently The Library Book, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker. She is also obsessed with luggage, is a firm believer in carry-on luggage, and prefers to travel without any plan. At all. “It puts you in touch with how ignorant…

Eating while high is fun, but cooking while high is the opposite of that. Depending on exactly how high you tend to get, staying away from open flames, heat sources that you could forget to turn off, and sharp, slice-y objects is generally a good plan. (While guacamole may sound extremely delicious whilst stoned, a…

Somewhere, deep in our lizard brains, we all intuitively understand that kitchen sponges are absolutely disgusting. And yet! We as a society tend to turn the other way and use them for weeks, or even months at a time. Sure, you can throw your sponges in the microwave or the dishwasher, and feel like you “sanitized”…

I once ate half a baguette and several slices of ham in the rain on a street corner in Amsterdam.

It was 1997, and I had just settled into my dorm a few days prior. Classes hadn’t even started yet. I was having a problem with registration because I was missing some critical piece of information. I called my mom. “Mom, can you call and find out what I need to do to fix my registration?”

I used to be a people-pleaser.

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This weekend (and this weekend only), Dota 2 players can witness first-hand the wold-champ-defeating skill of OpenAI’s competitive Dota 2 AI, OpenAI Five. The AI has been trained using a technique called “deep reinforced learning” which has seen the AI play over 45,000 years-worth of Dota 2 in just 10 months. This…

It’s arguably fine to tell little white lies to your friends and family. Many of us routinely lie to ourselves. But there is one person on this earth with whom you must be 100% honest: your anesthesiologist.

My daughter has some stacking shelves in her bedroom closet where she keeps her board games. I put them up because they’re better than my previous organization method of nothing, but I’m quickly realizing they are less than ideal. If she tries to grab, say, Hoot Owl Hoot, and it’s at the bottom of one of the shelves,…

After generations in the shadows and long nights of “still waiting on the guy, what’s up with the guy, should we call the guy again?” anxiety, buying legal cannabis is becoming a way of life in America. Recreational weed is now legal for adult use in 10 states and the District of Columbia, and medical use is allowed…

Jam is an excellent cocktail ingredient. It’s also very sticky, which means getting those last seemingly insignificant bits out of the jam jar requires some creative problem solving. Luckily, ethanol is quite the solvent.

Few people want to consider what might happen after the death of a spouse, but it’s an inevitability that many of us will have to prepare for—and for widows or widowers who aren’t prepared, the period immediately after a spouse’s death can be a financial nightmare.

If you haven’t seen your primary care doctor in a while (or, uh, ever), do yourself a favor and install the ePSS app from the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

TOPGREENER has been turning out USB-equipped power receptacles for years, but they really raised the bar with their latest models, and you can save 20% on a two-pack with promo code USBWF20T, for a limited time.

If you have a little kid, you probably have some kind of food battle raging in your home. They don’t want to sit in one spot long enough to eat a meal, they don’t want to eat that, or they don’t want to eat anything.

The world watched yesterday as Notre Dame Cathedral, a symbol of France and the Catholic Church, burned in a devastating fire that toppled its spire and destroyed most of its wooden roof. The cathedral was in the midst of a large restoration process.

Legal, recreational marijuana is coming to more states with every election, and that means more people may want to try it. To help these weed newbies (much of the Lifehacker staff included), we’re covering all the basics for beginners.

Jigsaw Massage is the exception to the expensive trend of at home massage therapy. By attaching to almost all T and U shank jigsaws, they avoideded creating a single use item, and instead made a clever attachment for a common tool, opening the door for at-home recovery to more athletes and those in chronic pain. Take…

If you’re high right now, here’s a question that might cause your brain to short-circuit: Why exactly do we associate pot with 4/20?