Former chef, TV star and general wise man Anthony Bourdain once said, “You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together. If your date makes the experience uptight and restrictive, well, the sex is going to be horrible too.” I’m willing to bet that’s...
Find Their Fear And Prey On It “What one person is afraid of might not bother the next,” says Saunders. “However, everyone is scared of something. Certain emotions—like anxiety and creeping unease—are contagious, so chances are if you manage to freak one or two people out, those...
The male orgasm is, to use the most clichéd metaphor in the book, a rollercoaster ride. Not because it involves a thrilling series of ups and downs, but because once it’s done, you can’t just stay in your seat for another go — you have to head to the...
Tattoos are extremely polarising: Some people (like—full disclosure—me) can’t get enough of them, while others still believe tattooing is a “demonic craft” (no, really). Whatever your opinion, research arguing that tattoos interfere with the way we sweat—which could have negative repercussions for health—may embolden the haters and...
You Only Use 10 Percent of Your Brain This classic psychology myth is 100 percent false. According to neurologist Aaron Blaisdell, “Our brain cells are all metabolically active all the time, just like all the cells in our body.” So there’s no mysterious, powerful other 90 percent...
Well, Looky Here Your pupil is your eye’s aperture, an opening at the centre of the iris through which light from the world around us passes before it focuses onto the retina behind it. Muscles in the iris help to dilate it in low light and constrict...
What’s so great about comedy one-liners? The best ones stick in your brain and change how you see the world. Mitch Hedburg (an undisputed master of the form) said that escalators could never be out of order, they could only be ‘temporarily stairs’. I think of that...
While it might feel like the most modern of metrosexual manoeuvres, the truth is that men have been shaving pubes for at least 30,000 years. That’s when the earliest flint razors have been dated to. Supposedly, our cave-dwelling forebears also made use of everything from clamshells to...
“Our brains have to be selective,” says Cantwell, when we ask how our memories work in the first place. “They cannot remember everything, so they keep only what you specifically tell them to. That means you have to learn good ways of telling the brain what to...
Men don’t get towels. We just don’t. Guys generally have one towel, or at most two. There’s the bath towel, i.e., the one we use to dry off after the shower and mop our hair, arms, legs, butts, balls, faces and every other square inch of our bodies with...
Anyone who’s ever been on a first date understands that trying to eat while pretending to be someone the other person might not find repellent is a tricky process. To make matters worse (because things can always be worse), in a moment of paralysing anxiety, you said...
There is but one universal sound of urinary relief: The pee moan. The pee moan is the sort of unearned bodily relief generally reserved for the heavily constipated. It’s mediative; it’s poetic; it’s a sun-dappled Japanese garden with a stream tinkling through it. And the wonderful thing is,...