The human body: A work of art, a wonder of nature, a miracle of perfect engineering. Also, a revolting sack of churning goo and miscellaneous stench. Yes, even people with perfect bodies are susceptible to all the various gross forms of body odour that plague us regular...
Anyone who’s ever ridden in an elevator, carpooled, or stayed over at a new partner’s house for the night has tried to hold in a fart. This is a fact. Sometimes, it works: Other times, the pressure builds too much and your butt lets forth with a...
It Can’t Be Beat Every minute, your heart pumps about eight pints of blood through a system of vessels that’s more than 60,000 miles long. All in all, that translates to a whopping total of about 2,000 gallons of blood each and every day. Take that, Big...
Joint Effort The human elbow is a hinge-joint system made up of three bones: The humerus, the radius and the ulna. The humerus starts at the shoulder socket, while the radius comes from the thumb-area of the wrist and the ulna from the little finger side. Those...
The gasses released when you fart are like apples: All it takes is a single bad one to spoil the whole bunch. Most of the gas that comes tooting out of your hind end, including carbon dioxide and methane, is odourless. But when even just a little...
Anyone who’s experienced a swift hit to the nutsack knows just how painful that is, and has most definitely proceeded to ask (in a very high pitched voice), “Why must my testes be so tender?” We’ve felt your pain, so we sat down with Dr. Muhammad Mirza,...
There’s a good reason why you should wash your hands after urination. And no, it doesn’t matter if you have the cleanest, straightest, most precise pee aim known to man. “The rationale is that when toileting, it’s possible to have faecal material and faecal bacteria get onto...
The Gut-Brain Connection Having a “gut-wrenching experience” or “feeling butterflies in your stomach” when you see the person you fancy is not as metaphorical as we may think: Anxiety, sadness and anger are all linked to stomach problems, since our gastrointestinal tract is sensitive to emotion and...
From the outside, every set of testicles is unique, like a shrivelled up snowflake. Some mens’ left teste hangs lower than their right (being unsymmetrical means they take up less space); right testicles are usually larger and hang higher (UrbanDictionary defines left testicle as “the testicle no...
They’re the man hub Your testicles are essentially the control centre for how your reproductive system grows, hurriedly crafting androgens that determine all the major blokey things, like when your voice breaks and your beard sprouts. They run the bloke factory The most important form of androgen...
If we’re being completely honest, it’s not exactly uncommon for a man who’s been soaking in a warm tub for a while to end up playing with, well, something more than his rubber ducky. But a recent survey we conducted, asking men what they like to do...
Does farting burn calories? We’re sorry to burst your bubble (so to speak), but simple common sense says that farting cannot possibly burn calories—especially not a whopping 67 calories per fart (as claimed by some — more on that later), which is around the number of calories you’d...
