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...
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...
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...
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...
As a foremost proponent of baths, I’ve always found exchanges like this on the Giant Bomb forum both hilarious and counterproductive. “So I just had a bath, I never have baths because my parents told me girls take baths [and] men take showers. But I really enjoyed...
“I was tripped by this mouthbreather Troy,” Mike Wheeler admits to Eleven on Stranger Things. “Mouthbreather?” Eleven asks, confused. “Yeah, you know, a dumb person,” Mike explains. Later in the episode, we hear Eleven hurl the “mouthbreather” insult at someone themselves for the first time. Of course, Stranger Things...
It might not seem like it now, but it really won’t be long before we enter flip-flop season, and if you’re planning on baring your feet for the world to see, take heed: If those babies aren’t in good shape, people will be very, very upset. Look,...
“Men’s nipples can be carnal command centres.” This is the phrase that sticks most in my head after a week of looking deep into the mystery of men’s hard nipples. The sentence appeared in a 2014 Cosmopolitan piece about male nipple sensitivity, and I’m not sure if it’s...
If you’ve recently come upon hard times and recycling bottles and cans isn’t quite cutting it, you’re probably eyeing that lucrative organ black market and wondering, Do I really need two kidneys? How about both lungs? Is it possible to live without my stomach — or just a portion...
Being hammered can make you suddenly find otherwise unremarkable people hot enough to sleep with, but less discussed is the fact that it also makes you suddenly find otherwise unremarkable goods and services desirable enough to drop good money on. I’m not just talking about the new...