Sometimes you want to play music, podcasts, or audiobooks, but you need one ear open to the world, so you only put one earbud in. But if the song, podcast, or binaural ASMR dub of Steamed Hams is in stereo, then some sounds are only coming out throu…
Lees meerLast week, we wrote about one way to get perspective on your problems by comparing them to, well, the size of entire planets and galaxies.Read more...
Lees meerWhen someone just won’t shut up, sometimes, flat-out interrupting them is the only way to get a word in—when that fails, honesty works, too. (Here’s how to accomplish that.)Read more...
Lees meerBlack Friday may be the traditional start to the holiday shopping season, but the sales are starting earlier every year. It’s not because of “Christmas creep” (you know, that awful tradition where stores start putting out their Christmas inventory a…
Lees meerQuittin’ your job can feel great, but before you tell off that coworker who always annoyed you, kick your feet up and do nothing for two weeks, and ride off into the sunset, you should take a quick moment to think about what you want to take with yo…
Lees meerThere’s a new Crown in town and she’s played by Fleabag’s stepmother, everyone’s Favourite star, Olivia Colman. I’ve never seen The Crown but so profound is my adoration for Colman (Peep Show fans, where are you?) that I plan to snarf up the first t…
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Lees meerGlobal Entry is by far one of the best investments I’ve ever made. I travel out of the country quite a bit, and having it shaves off not only a ton of time when I’m entering the country (sometimes I’m as much as an hour and a half faster than my tra…
Lees meerEarlier this year Waze made Cookie Monster one of its navigation voices. It was fun, but it was also a limited engagement, which means if you had Cookie directing you around he eventually disappeared and was replaced with the default Waze voice inst…
Lees meerWhile travel often is something we plan weeks and months in advance with specific travel dates in mind, sometimes you just know where you want to go and you’re willing to make that trip whenever it makes sense.Read more...
Lees meerWe’ve made several posts over the past year about “BlueKeep,” a serious exploit present in Windows 7's remote desktop protocol (RDP) that could allow a hacker to take control of someone’s PC. Hell, we even covered recent news about the first suc…
Lees meerI always love the idea of pears more than the actual fruit, primarily because—like avocados—their “aw, hell yeah” window is very short. But pear brandy never fails me; the flavor is consistently good, the mouthfeel is never gritty, and the ABV hover…
Lees meerThere are many times during the course of parenting that you find yourself somewhere with a kid, waiting for something to happen. You might be waiting for the doctor to call you back for an appointment, waiting for your food to arrive in the restaur…
Lees meerThe CDC announced today that they are finally on board with the leading theory about what’s causing the vaping illness they are calling EVALI: vitamin E acetate, found mainly in THC vapes. A new technique for sampling lung fluid revealed that all of…
Lees meerThis coming Monday, November 11, more than 400 National Park Service sites will offer free admission in recognition of Veterans’ Day and as one of five Free Entrance days each year; this includes free access to parks like Yosemite, Zion, and the G…
Lees meerIf you follow productivity guru Tim Ferriss, you might be familiar with his mindset-changing question “What would this look like if it were easy?”Read more...
Lees meerSometimes I wonder why everyone isn’t getting hacked all the time. We’re all so bad at security, and there are so many people who know how to abuse it! And then I remember that we are getting hacked all the time.Companies regularly dangle all our ho…
Lees meerMost people get quite agitated when you mess with the format of Thanksgiving dinner, but I try not to let this society we live in influence my creative process. For a truly innovative—some might say “disruptive”—turkey meal, I urge you to consider a…
Lees meerIn a perfect world, I’d leave my phone on vibrate all the time. Nothing against my fun ringtone; I just find it more pleasant to feel a buzz when someone is calling than get blasted with some song. Thanks to a new update from Google, however, I can …
Lees meerWe’ve done a lot of different exercises in the Lifehacker Fitness Challenge, from barbell lifts to endurance sports to yoga and more. This month will be special, though: we’re going to take on some lifts that you’ve probably never tried. Read more...
Lees meerBy the time I knew I was sick, it was already too late. I had already binged on Diagnosis and burned through The Medical Detectives. It was only after I turned to the truly hardcore shit, a show about parasites called Monsters Inside Me, that I real…
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