What’s All This Body Hair FOR? Every hair on your body — from head to toes — served an evolutionary purpose. Here’s how all that fur helped your distant ancestors weather the storm. As you enter the shower to remove all your unwanted body hair with our...
Just How Nasty is Your Bathroom? For a room that’s dedicated to getting you clean, it can sure be one filthy germ-pit. It’s gross to think that the bathroom — that place we spend a lot of time naked — is crawling with germs, but it makes...
Why Do We Dance When We Need to Pee? Seriously, what is it about jiggling up and down that staves off the most frantic of all urges?? Some of us cut a rug better than others, but the one dance everyone can do — even more so...
What IS Acne, Anyway? We all know it when we see it, but most of us have no idea what’s actually going on in there. Zits: They’re gross and unwelcome (yet occasionally horribly satisfying when popping), but there’s more happening beneath the surface than you might think....
Squeeze the Last Out of Summer Summer — official and otherwise — is quickly evaporating, so here’s how to keep the season going long after Labor Day. No! Wait! Stop! Don’t go, summer! Don’t goooo…oh, you went. Welp, it doesn’t mean we have to give up all...
Getting More Interesting By Degrees As people start heading back to school, let’s take a look at some of the more unusual — but super intriguing — classes out there. If you’re questioning the path your life has taken, there’s a whole bunch of deeply fascinating subjects...
Endless Summer Don’t want summer to ever end? Here’s the trip you’d need to take to make it last forever…or at least, a year. By this point in the summer, you may well be craving the sweet embrace of fall. But for those wishing summer could just...
No Pants, No Problem! As summer rolls on and the heat makes being neck-deep in water the only sensible option, here’s a guide to matching your swimwear to your body type. Choosing swim shorts can be a weird experience. Are they covering too much? Are they not...
How to Sleep Without Air Con If you aren’t one of those lucky folks with arctic-level air conditioning, this is what to do to get some rest in the middle of a sweltering August. We’ve all experienced them: Those sweaty, miserably humid summer nights when it’s just...
If you’re stranded on a sunny desert island and have gotten a sunburn while scanning the horizon for passing cruise ships, but all you have to hand is a bottle of moisturizer, here’s a tip: Slather that moisturizer on that burn, pronto. But if you’re not in...
It’s easy to convince yourself that all the soap and shampoo cascading down your legs is enough to clean your feet when you’re rushing blearily through your morning shower. But is that really true? Chemist and former Dollar Shave Club product wiz, Fadi Mourad, took us through...
When I was just a young boy, I slammed my thumb in a car door. That fingernail proceeded to fall off about a week later, revealing a brain-like section of skin that both intrigued my boyish self and absolutely terrified every normal adult who had the misfortune...
