Wow. This is a horribly pernicious column. Lifehacker pronounces death to science and reliance on the blogosphere over people who have attended medical school, licensed and are subject to professional standards.

If I read the article correctly, they looked at the overall brightness and contrast of pictures—but not the contrast with the objects detected. That seems to be a huge omission. I would imagine that an AI’s ability to detect someone dressed in dark clothes at night—like a human’s ability—is radically different. In…

I wish there were a little research here. Are there long term negative effects? Picking up on 4jim’s point, I understand intrinsic rewards are generally better. But are we making ourselves and our kids reliant on mini-dopamine hits through gamification, such that they’ll be disinterested in more traditional rewards?…

If someone has a great tan, say, “Nice weather we’re having”.

Cherry pitter! Yes! You know what else it is? An olive pitter! It does both! Stop gnawing around pits like a savage squirrel, or spitting up pits. Drop $7

Oh, man. This ubiquitous feeling/action dichotomy is one of my pet peeves. Kids aren’t born with fully-formed perceptions, attitudes, tastes or ‘feelings’ about things. They acquire them and modify them, and participating in that is absolutely part of parenting. In practice, it’s impossible to distinguish between…

Seems to be a pretty cursory look at the science before calling ‘bullshit’. Seems to leave lurking some huge questions. If the emotional experience leading to the crying is an arc: 1) is the arc towards the crying a good thing—are you just building up the stresses you then need to burn off to get back to that earlier…

Well, I guess this is the last column on parenting advice Lifehacker will ever post...

I’m with @SolutionsCost on this one. Recognizing peers challenges *can* help with empathy-building—but only if it leads into a reflection of how those are common with their own. A daily question about who was struggling is going to be a tough entree into that conversation. The enticing (although problematic) “who got…

Let’s admit that we have ordered two dozen phone chargers because we thoughtfully leave them plugged into the wall for the convenience of all, and someone we live with keeps taking them (and seemingly transmuting them into hair bands!).

A word of advice from a single data point, which might be generalizable. Car rentals at Denver airport are brutal. You will think you have chosen all relevant options when booking in advance online. Prepare to go through a tedious process of being upsold on 11 different options, with no transparency in posted pricing,…

This is a confusing dichotomy. “Reasons” need not persuade. “Excuses” need not be hollow.

Your title might be wrong, even if the “fruit” reference is not. These folks could be thinking of dioeciosm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioecy. The whole organism can possess one sex. Some fruit-bearing plants are dioecious (like papaya).

[Gawker not Gimlet]

I think Gimlet has mangled some of the message here. Bits are right. But in others:

I’m surrounding by a business community that likes to begin letters, sometimes and sometimes not under a subject-line, with “Your letter of 1 Jan 2018 refers.” No object. Not, “...refers to the above subject”. Not “I refer to your letter”. Just ostentatiously dropping off after “refers”. I can’t help but wonder if…

There are some great ones above (enormity, reticent); misuse of “I” as an object. I was so surprised by the ‘entitled’ statement that I furiously searched. OED, etc. support the meaning above, but see the first example in Merriam Webster.

Vegetarian for 30+ years, for ethical reasons. Desire for ‘meaty’ stuff never went away for me. I love the Impossible and Beyond Burgers. Interesting that I even remember enough about the flavour to recognize they taste ‘meaty’. But it’s not like nicotine cravings. More like chips/candy.

I’ll be bold and say the ratings themselves are completely meaningless and should not be relied upon. You’ll see that where your President has been undertaking a royal visit has the same rating as Sierra Leone. Moreover, they’re not benchmarked against domestic things like the National Terrorism Advisory: it could be s…

This matches my take. Both yummy, Impossible edge. Important to note that both companies just do the patties—so the fixings at one resto can skew it.