How to Get Your Kid Devoted to Your Favorite Sports Team

My husband and I are sports fans. College and professional, basketball, football and baseballwe tend to like it all. So we hoped that our son would grow up to enjoy watching sports as much as we do. Im from Cleveland, which means I grew up a tortured sports fan. Who will he root for? Id ask my husband when our son was very little. Parents have a lot of influence over which teams a kid claims as their future lifelong obsession....

May 31, 2019 · 2 min · 373 words · Tiffany Taylor

Use a Seasonal Car Maintenance Schedule to Prevent Summer Breakdowns

All the fun stuff, right? But how much do you know about your windshield wipers? But youre so busy with work and friends and kids and family, its easy to let things slip. One afternoon at the side of the road waiting for a tow truck will remind you, of course. Seasonal schedules will keep you from forgetting maintenance and also help your car recover from harsh seasons. Any cracks, holes or damage indicate that a replacement is needed....

May 31, 2019 · 2 min · 410 words · Chelsea Wilson

What Books to Read This Summer

But whatever format you read in, here are the books the Lifehacker staff recommends this summer. I really enjoyed Christie AschwandensGood to Go, which is a look at fitness recovery trends. Yes its a history book. Yes its all about one specific part of one specific city. Yes its about queer people from 1855-1969. Plus its fun to walk around and be like See where that Ikea is? The writing is beautiful....

May 31, 2019 · 2 min · 374 words · Ethan Reyes

A Parent’s Guide to Setting Boundaries

While trying to write this article, Ive had to shuffle a toddler off my lap about 57 times. It would be fair to say we have a boundary issue in our household. Its something Im working on. Children, of course, need boundaries for acceptable behavior for their own sense of security. But parents need boundaries, too. But where do you start if you have not been setting firm boundaries from the beginning?...

May 30, 2019 · 3 min · 439 words · Ashley Perez

How to Check if Your Hard Drive Is Failing

Windows:I recently had a suspicion that something was up with my hard drive. And, of course, saving money by not buying an unnecessary upgrade is the best feeling of all. Downloads would crawl along, even though I have a pretty beefy Internet connection. Progress bars for patch installations would appear to stall for an hour. Pull up File Explorer, right-select a drive, and select Properties. hit the Tools tab, and hit Check under the Error checking section....

May 30, 2019 · 2 min · 298 words · Tanner Dominguez

How to Prepare for a Big Race Without Losing Your Mind

The last few weeks before a marathon are a special kind of hell. For months, your top priority has been training consistently. Now, all of a sudden, your runs are getting shorter. Some of them drop off your calendar altogether. Its new territory, both mentally and physically, and its totally normal to kind of freak out. (Other sports have their own version of this; weightlifters may talk about their deload.)...

May 30, 2019 · 3 min · 441 words · Wyatt Graham

I'm Musician Dan Boeckner of Operators and Wolf Parade, and This Is How I Eat

(Check out their new album,Radiant Dawn,hereandhere, andtheir tour schedule here.) You mentioned on Twitter that you used to be a chef? What kind of cuisine did you work in? I only ever worked in a couple of decent restaurants. Do you cook a lot at home now? When I was working in food I fucking hated cooking at home. I ate really poorly when I was working in the food industry....

May 30, 2019 · 11 min · 2149 words · Alexa Smith

Overcome Imposter Syndrome With a 'Brag File'

It wont take long, because Ive collected my best work as it came out. And whether or not your work is public, you should do the same. Youll have a stronger portfolio with less grunt work. Whatever youre putting out, throw a copy into a folder, bookmark, or note-keeping system. Do it the first time that a draft makes you proud, or immediately after a project is finished. And its better to save too much than not enough....

May 30, 2019 · 2 min · 374 words · Phillip Jensen

The Best Browsers for Ad Blocking (That Aren't Chrome)

The changeover has led to the deprecation of old APIs and breaking the tech many ad-blocking apps ran on. Users have turned to third-party extensions to block out the rest. Either way, Manifest V3 means ad blockers will be far less effective in Chrome. Time to find a new web client, then. Lets consider some alternatives. Best ad blocking browsers Brave Brave is by far the smartest choice for blocking ads....

May 30, 2019 · 2 min · 233 words · David Gonzalez

The Hanging Coffins of China And Philippines

The ancient Bo and Guyue people of southern China did not bury their dead. Instead, they hung their coffins from tall cliffs. The precise reason for this kind of burial is not known. However, practical applications of cliff burial cannot be ruled out. It also keeps the ground free for cultivation. Hanging Coffins in Sichuan province, China. The oldest coffins dating back 3,000 years, however, were found in the eastern province of Fujian....

May 30, 2019 · 1 min · 167 words · Shawna Franklin

The Warship That Couldn’t Stay Afloat

At least, that was the idea. Until the middle of the 19th century, all ships, including warships, were made of wood. On March 9, 1862, the two ironclads met each other during the Battle of Hampton Roads. Engineer John Ericsson, who developed the original design for the Monitor, designed several new classes of monitors. A second class of monitors, called the Canonicus, were slightly longer but marginally narrower than the Passaic....

May 30, 2019 · 2 min · 248 words · Christine Curtis

We're the Sklar Brothers, and This Is How We Work

We grew up in St. Louis, MO. We started doing stand-up in high school and that continued in college at the University of Michigan. We moved to NYC in 1994, and kept doing stand-up. In three years we were doing our own show on MTV,Apt. 2F, a hybrid sitcom with sketch and stand-up mixed in. We have worked consistently from that point until today in film, TV, stand-up and now podcasting....

May 29, 2019 · 3 min · 561 words · Matthew Coleman

You Can Now Tell Alexa to Delete Your Conversations

If you dont like the idea that your Echo machine is recording every question you ask itall in the interest of, well,whatever Amazons reasoning isyou can now wipe its memory each day with a handy voice command. Say this to your machine, Alexa, delete everything I said today, and your Echo speaker or other Alexa machine will do just that: delete all voice data and stored commands on your account that have accrued that day....

May 29, 2019 · 2 min · 399 words · Vanessa Carlson