You Should Drink Cardamaro With Your Thanksgiving Meal

The flavor profile of the Thanksgiving meal hasn’t changed much over the years, but that doesn’t stop the endless parade of wine pairing guides that appear each November. I don’t know why we’re still talking about this, as I solved this riddle last year—the only wine you need for Thanksgiving is Champagne (and maybe a…

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

How to Address Your Tween Daughter’s Body Hair Concerns

“Wow, you’re so hairy,” the boy standing to my daughter’s left said. He gazed in awe at her rounded seven-year-old arm, brown from the summer sun, and the silky, dark hair encircling it. It was the first day of second grade and the first time someone remarked about my daughter’s body hair. But I had been waiting for…

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Author: Savita Iyer on Offspring, shared by Savita Iyer to Lifehacker

Should You Panic About ‘Parasitic Eye Worms’ or Face Flies?

My second-worst experience thinking about insects in my eyes was a real-life encounter, when I jogged face-first into a cloud of gnats while running on a trail. I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something still in my eye, and hours later I finally extracted a dead(?) gnat from the inner reaches of my eyelid…

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