Professional therapist here. One important thing to keep in mind is that while all meditation is mindful, not all mindfulness is meditation. I never ask a client to “quiet their mind,” because that’s nearly impossible. Instead, I ask people to notice things, ideally without judgement. Notice your thoughts, but let…

Yeah, it’s a big thing in the US. Multiple spam calls per day. Most people don’t answer unfamiliar numbers at all anymore, which can be a problem if you’re, say, job hunting.

For my LG G7 the default phone app doesn’t do Spam or call screening. The Google app has both.

Bricks are multi-taskers. They’re not just for the kitchen. I keep one on my desk at work. Circumstances there frequently require banging my head against a brick wall. My desk brick is a productivity tool. It’s right there, so I don’t have to get up from my desk and walk to the nearest brick wall to accomplish that…

Claire, I think that you and Beth Skwarecki missed an opportunity for Lifehacker synergy here. You don’t need a brick — you need need a kitchen weight! Why use a brick, when you could have a range of barbell plates from 2.5 to 25 pounds that could be used in indoor cooking (35s and above are for the great outdoors),…

How is this any faster than just doing long hand multiplication?

That’s all well and good, until you need to multiply 989 x 785. I hate that this example always uses the lowest possible numbers to make it seem easy.

To be honest, I think that the moment you start looking for ad blocker, is the moment when you will begin a long journey of being scammed online.

If we look at some of the biggest junkware/malware scheme, they are usually for things that people really don’t need, but think they badly need, such as:

1) App/process killer…

PLEASE include either the National Suicide Prevention Hotline or some other relevant resource when posting articles that discuss suicide or self harm. It is genuinely not that hard. It seems that Jezebel has fully committed to not including this information on recent articles addressing suicide.

I was trying to point out the typo in the article where you said past instead of paste. I will try to make my sarcasm more clear in the future.

My past is filled with baking soda and hydrogen peroxide and my pans are still dirty. Am I doing it wrong?

You forgot step number one, don’t have cats.

Lovely article, but I took a bit of exception to this:

Yeah, I think that pit bulls are unfairly maligned in the sense that we shouldn’t blame the dogs themselves (anymore than we should, say, blame a bulldog or pug for their breathing difficulties). However, I will note that pit bulls seem to attract, let’s say, a certain kind of unsavory dog owner. I’ve known good,…

That’s not a credible website.

It’s called jam or maybe jelly depending on your country.

No, this is just banans. No way it works, the app determines your position and assumes your movement via GPS, not steps. Shaking your phone, or using a treadmill to try to hatch eggs won’t work either.

Im pretty sure that’s all that’s happening in this video too.

Another option is to find a building with terrible GPS reception. My work is in a poured concrete building with awful GPS reception (I’ll be in my office maybe 50 feet from a pokestop and it will tell me I’m on the other side of the building, 400 feet away), so my avatar is constantly walking around the screen,…

Yeah, this is unlikely to work. What they saw was more likely a result of GPS drift than the turntable. The GPS resolution is not good enough and they likely use a smoothing algorithm that would make this no different than your phone sitting still on your desk.