How to Get a Break From Your Kids While On Vacation

As meteorologist Paul Goodloe mused to us about family travel: “If you include the kids, it’s no longer a vacation—we just call that a trip.” Don’t get us wrong: Traversing the world with your children can be a formative experience in which lifelong memories are made. It can also be rather suffocating (flashback to…

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Author: Michelle Woo on Offspring, shared by Michelle Woo to Lifehacker

Everything I Learned While Getting Kicked out of America’s Biggest Anti-Vaccine Conference

It seemed virtually inevitable that I would be thrown out of AutismOne, a yearly conference that has been accused of being a hive of anti-vaccine sentiments, bad science, scaremongering and worthless products. The conference has, after all, ejected several science bloggers who have previously attended, as well as a

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Author: Anna Merlan on Jezebel, shared by Virginia K. Smith to Lifehacker

My hot sauce is turning pale. Is it safe to use?

This is the current state of a hot sauce sitting at my desk. I forgot about it for a few months and only came across while clearing away some books. The color of this hot sauce is… concerning. It used to be a fairly bright red, like any cayenne-based hot sauce. This type of hot sauce is vinegar-based, and so should…

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Author: Kevin Pang on The Takeout, shared by Virginia K. Smith to Lifehacker