For Better Wedge Salads, Upgrade Your Lettuce

The wedge salad is often dismissed as nothing more than a vehicle for blue cheese and crispy bits of cured pork. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. In fact, I think a delivery system for cheese and bacon is what lettuce should strive to be, but you can make your wedge just a touch more nutritious (and…

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Author: Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to Lifehacker

Seasonal Depression Can Occur Any Time of Year

If I look up from my office computer in southeast Portland I see a patchwork of brick buildings interspersed by evergreen patches of forest, all pushing up against a lead-colored sky. It’s winter in the Pacific Northwest, and we’re a couple months into a rainy season that will probably last until April. Lucky me, I…

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Author: Emily McIntyre on Vitals, shared by Beth Skwarecki to Lifehacker

Protect Your Baby From Strangers’ Germs with a ‘No Touch’ Sign

There’s this thing that happens when a person sees a brand new human. Their hands, which just moments before they had complete control over, turn into large magnets that pull straight up and out with a primal need to touch that baby. It’s bad enough to endure months of randoms rubbing your pregnant stomach; now all…

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Author: Meghan Moravcik Walbert on Offspring, shared by Meghan Moravcik Walbert to Lifehacker

Summer is brief, but it’s always canned tomato season

For many of us, tomatoes are the perfect food of summer, when gardens and farmer’s markets overflow with every color, shape, and size of super-ripe, juicy sweetness. I find this deeply annoying. Because I? Do not like raw tomatoes. I do not like their mealy, mushy flesh, and I do not like their squidgy jelly-coated…

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Author: Stacey Ballis on The Takeout, shared by Virginia K. Smith to Lifehacker