Working from home — with no obligation to appear in the presence of other people besides my fiancée — has thrown my grooming habits into disarray. I no longer get haircuts or shave on the regular. Most days, I just look in the mirror and think, Oof, you need...
With my wedding six months away, I decided it was time I shed some excess weight. For a short time, I attempted the OMAD approach—one meal a day—along with a daily four-mile run. This meant that every day around 3pm, I’d hit the pavement, come home, pace...
While colour variance in your stool might normally be the sign of life-threatening internal bleeding, it can also be something much more benign — you just ate the wrong thing. Or better put, you ate the wrong colour food. We decided to break down the foods that affect the...
Unless you go looking for it, it’s easy to live in the dark as to what other types of wangs are out there. In fact, all sorts of shapes and sizes of wangs can be handed to you at birth in the Great Wang Lottery — bent wangs, double...
Despite growing up with four older sisters, I’ve retained a few admittedly repulsive habits, and my towel situation is one of them. If you’re anything like me, you own one singular towel and you’re not sure where it came from — it appeared in your dorm or...
Every time I stay at a hotel, I’m forced to navigate a mystery set of soaps and cleaning tools—usually, a bar of soap and a washcloth. Thing is, I am a longtime member of Team Loofah, and I can tell you that merely wiping bar soap on...
You’ve shovelled all sorts of stuff into your mouth over the years, but why—of all consistencies and chemicals—do ice cold drinks hurt your teeth the most? We spoke to Dr. Matt Messina of the American Dental Association to find out. Why Teeth Are Sensitive to Cold First...
Laptops are so named because they’re designed to sit on your lap — no surprise there. So surely we’re fine to keep doing that, right? Turns out: Not so much. Convenient as it is to slump on the couch with your computer, creating a heat-sink by your scrotum is never...
Humans evolved to stand upright and outrun their predators, so it’s no wonder sitting sedentary in a halogen-lit office is ruining the species. But it’s not just your lower back and general outlook on life slowly being crippled by your 9-to-5. It’s also your butt. Haemorrhoids. Irritation....
Everyone has a different approach to oral care: Some brush before flossing, some floss before brushing. Some wild folk even gargle mouthwash before anything else. But what order is the correct order? We wanted to hear it from the horse’s mouth, and in this case, that horse...
If you’re feeling like the romance in your life is more dead than that single rose from Valentine’s Day 2018, you’re not alone: A survey from legendary romance publisher, Mills & Boon, found that 76 percent of adults in England agreed they want more romance in their...
On one hand, anyone who’s given a presentation or struggled through a math problem knows the benefits of vocally pumping themselves up in the bathroom mirror, or cursing their way through the equation. On the other, if anyone witnessed you muttering your way through your bills, alone...