Each week on our podcast, The Upgrade, we end up talking about small improvements we’ve made to our lives over the past week, such as […]

At some point, most of us have tried to use a table, or a wheel, or maybe just a list, to get our partners, housemates, […]

Do you have an old, but working computer that is gathering dust in your closet? The iPhone 6 that you no longer use? You know […]

For every person living in the world today, there is about a ton of plastic – this is 8,300 million tons of plastic produced since […]

Bonfires are pretty much a summer and early fall tradition. You might think they are easy to put together in a few minutes, but with […]

Mac users, hello! Let’s argue which side of the screen is best for the docking station. (PC users, please ignore this article and don’t laugh […]

Diet soda can kill you, but may not kill, and soda full of flavor can kill, but may not kill, but in any case, if […]

There are so many good podcasts out there (including Lifehacker’s The Upgrade ), but there isn’t much time in the day. The Wall Street Journal […]

It was a particularly stressful week when, with a pair of scissors in one hand and four inches of hair in the other, I decided […]

Even if you don’t live in New York City, you’ve probably already heard us complain about the dramatic collapse of the nation’s largest public transportation […]

The belated New York Times obituary pays homage to the inventor Frances Gabe, who designed, built and lived in “the world’s only self-cleaning home.” Gabe […]

If you live in a city that attracts a steady stream of tourists, you already know (and are oblivious to) the chain restaurants they tend […]

One of the basic rules of interacting on the Internet is not to read comments. But if you, like us, spend most of your day […]

Registering an online account is something we do so often that we lose sight of all the websites we subscribe to. You will only remember […]

If you’re the kind of person who spends the first ten minutes of a Lyft ride to the airport worrying about accidentally leaving the oven […]

Bad day to breathe in the city. As I write this post, there are air quality warnings in Washington DC , New York , Louisville […]

Pound for pound, canned spices are some of the most expensive utensils in your kitchen. They are much cheaper in bulk and ethnic grocery stores […]

Almost every photo on the Internet has been edited in one way or another, be it cropping, filtering, compressing, color grading, or other generally harmless […]

Cancer is the worst . And perhaps thanks to Movember and the pink consumer products, we are all very knowledgeable. Too knowledgeable. “Because we’ve got […]

Ever since Microsoft acquired LinkedIn , I look forward to the day’s notifications to add someone I’ve never met to my professional network, popping up […]