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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…

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.

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.)

It’s time to come in from the playground and start a new chapter of the Lifehacker Fitness Challenge. For July, we’re back to something you can do in the shade, in any spare moment you might have: balance exercises.

If your holiday plans involve a trip to the public pool, you may be interested in a recent warning from the Centers for Disease Control. On Friday, the CDC released a report encouraging Americans to use caution when taking advantage of public pools because of a parasite called cryptosporidium that’s transmitted…

Productivity writer Rachel Miller takes notes when she’s with friends—“even during a coffee date,” she says. Mainly she takes notes on recommendations—good TV shows or recipes or in one case, pullover socks. It’s such a habit that her friends have emailed each other asking for Rachel’s “meeting notes.” Here’s how to…

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court declared last week that federal courts could not intervene when it comes to the act of partisan gerrymandering—widespread voter manipulation affecting a number of states.

In the history of parenting, there might be nothing more dreaded than The Sex Talk. Masturbation, nocturnal emissions, menstrual cycles, how to use condoms—nobody wants an awkward lecture on these topics. I remember once joking with my mom about douching after seeing a commercial on television. She then took on a…

If you’re an Amazon Prime member, you can be noncommittal about Amazon Prime Day. You’ve already paid your $119 annual fee or monthly portion of it, so what’s it going to hurt to browse through some of the discounts the megastore is hawking for two days...and the two weeks leading up to it? But if you’re not a Prime…

Fitness Instagram can be a place of powerful inspiration. It can also be a soul-sucking morass full of impossibly fit people doing things you could never dream of and selling products that you suddenly need to have. Here’s how to use it so you feel better, not worse, after checking your feed.

American Independence Day is heavily associated with the cooking method known as “grilling,” which is—in turn—firmly linked to meat. But some people don’t eat meat, and they should not be denied the visceral pleasure of cooking something over hot coals in the hot sun. Luckily, there are many (good) options.

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Websites are working harder than ever to influence our decisions—and even if you know what they’re up to, you can still find yourself adjusting your actions in exactly the way the site wants.

But even if you don’t live in a hurricane-prone area like I do, there’s no excuse for not having an emergency kit ready for the worst-case scenario, whether it be a wildfire or a flood or an earthquake.

With family chores, kids often spend more time protesting and less time doing the actual job. (“It’s Scarlett’s turn to unload the dishwasher!” “No, it’s Willow’s turn!”) A solution: Put Alexa in charge.

It’s safe to say Roman Mars knows a thing or two about podcasting.

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I watch a healthy amount of YouTube each day, but I usually roll my eyes at the various recommendations I see on the website or app. No matter how many vloggers I watch, I will never care about “Let’s Play” videos for those weird anime games on Steam, any video involving a spider, or TanaCon.

I thought blenders were the one kitchen appliance that couldn’t really be improved upon — until I saw this $30 PopBabies Portable Blender, and realized that the next step for the blender was leaving the kitchen all together.

In 2018, Travelodge, a UK-based hotel chain, put together a list of the weirdest things travelers left behind in their rooms—which include three goldfish, an entire ice cream truck, and two Persian cats. Back in 2016, someone also left their Shetland pony named Pudding at a Travelodge hotel. (Thankfully, he was later…

If you take the Manhattan downtown 6 train past the end of the line, you’ll see the abandoned City Hall subway stop. If you wander the residential areas of San Francisco, you can slide down the concrete Seward Street Slides or walk up the Vulcan Stairway. And until recently, downtown Houston had a literal big red…

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Netflix is giving you precisely one decent new thing to watch over the 4th of July holiday and that is the third season of Stranger Things (Thursday). Not a fan? Looks like it’s going to be a double feature of Caddyshack and Caddyshack 2: Who Knew? for you.

A few weeks ago a close friend of mine posted a job on Facebook that was available in her office that just happened to be a perfect match for a different friend of mine that’s looking for a new job. I passed the info along to friend number two and connected them together.