Health
Everything you need to know to improve your health, fitness and well-being, one hack at a time.
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Avoid These Mistakes When Washing Wool
Wool is a pretty incredible fabric: It’s antimicrobial, breathable, odor-resistant, and extremely durable. It can also be tricky to wash and dry.
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Does Your Mascara Have Invisible Mites on It?
Demodex are a family of eight-legged mites that live in the hair follicles and associated sebaceous or oil glands of many mammals. Two species are known in humans – Demodex folliculorum, which lives mainly in hair follicles on our faces (especially eyelashes and eyebrows), and Demodex brevis, which sets up home in the oil glands…
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How to Decide Between a Gas and Charcoal Grill
Grilling can be intimidating. It tends to be fairly male-dominated, though I will say that BBQ dudes are much more chill, welcoming, and helpful than sous-vide dudes, who tend to be pedantic and slightly unhinged. But community aside, it can be hard to know where to get started. The first question you need to ask…
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Here’s What Happens When You Don’t Clean Your Bellybutton
Bodies are exhaustingly high-maintenance. The list of things you’re supposed to be doing just to stay alive and in reasonably good health gets more detailed the longer you live — especially when it comes to grooming and hygiene. You might think you’re doing a reasonably good job of detailing all the bits on your body,…