As you’ll know if you’ve ever experienced it, blacking out is a strange experience. You are, by all accounts, fully functioning, but you have no awareness of what you’re actually doing. Stuff happens—you walk around, you talk to people, you dance on top of a pool table...
The human body: An inspiring biological work of art? Or a meaty sack of germs and fluids? Either way, there’s still a lot we don’t know about what goes on in there — and scientists are constantly attempting to find out more. Here are some interesting things we found...
Men spend an average of one hour and 35 minutes on the toilet each week, according to a recent study—that’s about 14 minutes per day. This should surprise no one, considering that 53 percent of guys get caught up staring at their phones while sitting on the...
S***, shower, shave: the three S’s of a successful grooming routine, but an elusive process to perfect. It takes a disciplined diet and schedule to become a same-time-every-day pooper. My own BM schedule is haphazard and borderline dangerous — too many times have I experienced the shame of the...
There you are, in an important business meeting with even more important people. The chatter is constructive, so your boss decides to extend things. Everyone agrees, and the meeting proceeds without a time limit. But then you feel the urge, one that begins slowly in your stomach...
Belly buttons can be filled with any number of things: Dirt, sweat, lint and maybe even some jewellery if that’s what you’re into. But a recent study, appropriately titled, A Jungle in There: Bacteria in Belly Buttons are Highly Diverse, but Predictable, found that our tummy holes...
You can now stop freaking out about that bump, blemish or rash that’s popped up on your skin and seriously ruined your week. Dr. Lisa Chipps, dermatologist and assistant clinical professor at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, is here to help you figure out why it’s...
Studies have long suggested that eating properly, in addition to making your body feel good, can improve your overall mental health. For example, one study found that people who eat hardly any fruits and vegetables can experience a boost in happiness equivalent to what an unemployed person feels when...
Sometimes the smell from your trip to the toilet is so terrible that it could be used as a weapon of mass destruction. Unfortunately, other than changing your diet—e.g., decreasing the amount of meat in your diet—there’s not much you can do about the odour of your...
In the battle against the elements, it’s one of life’s cruel jokes that our lips, one of the most exposed areas of our bodies to the sun, wind and cold (let alone our penchant for idle talk, a salty snack or a chance at first base), is...
Of all the so-called hangover remedies — pounding water, devouring greasy foods and drinking more alcohol — sweating it out is reserved for the bold. Most of us can barely roll out of bed when we’re hungover, let along jog around the block until we’re dripping. Still,...
Brain freeze works like this: When you chug an icy cold beverage or shovel ice cream into your mouth, you’re very quickly changing the temperature in the back of your throat. Or slightly more scientifically, you’re putting the intersection of the internal carotid artery (which feeds blood...