Ruh-roh: Research published this week reveals that city dwellers are regularly inhaling antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). What does this actually mean for you, a regular guy who breathes air? It means that your once easily-treatable infections may acquire the ability to survive antibiotic treatment—and eventually evolve into...
When spirals occur in the real world—say, for instance, in cacti or croissants—no one stops to think, That succulent/pastry needs to be mindful, ignore those spirals and focus on a completely different succulent/pastry until it stops being a spiral. Obviously not: It’s only in terms of the...
Apart from deciding who washes the dirty dishes, there’s almost nothing that couples fight over more than money. And unfortunately, resolving money problems in a relationship can be a lot more complicated than negotiating who’s going to wield the dish sponge. These money issues are far more...
Most of us wear sunglasses for two reasons and two reasons only: To quit squinting and to look suave as heckin’ heck. But there’s one even better reason to wear sunglasses, according to Christopher Quinn, O.D., president of the American Optometric Association: To not go completely blind....
For some strange reason, many humans have become completely infatuated with beans, as demonstrated by the incredible 300,000+ people who follow a Facebook page called Things Full of Beans That Shouldn’t Be Full of Beans. (The account is exactly what the name suggests—photos of beans in peculiar...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
The message carved into Ernie’s high school locker was clear: “Ernie has no eyebrows and a frying pan forehead.” Now 24, Ernie tells me that he’s “reasonably good looking and fit,” save for, of course, the non-existent brows. Ernie tried to fill them in with his girlfriend’s...
You’d be hard pressed to find a parent who thinks kids don’t eat too much sugar. After all, it’s everywhere, in everything, practically in the air we breathe. You already know there’s way too much sugar in a bowl of cereal. But, quick: How much sugar is...
I was recently informed that—despite generally being placed next to milk and yogurt at the grocery store—eggs aren’t actually dairy. Now, before that moment, I confess that I hadn’t really spent too much time wondering about the precise classification of our embryonic breakfast companions. But since that...
Having a headache may be the most clichéd not-in-the-mood excuse in existence for women wanting to avoid sex. But research published in the Journal of Neuroscience reveals that pain really does have a libido-busting effect on women—and, apparently, only women. To arrive at this conclusion, researchers injected...
A long time ago, one of our distant ancestors thought, I want to suck the thick white liquid right outta that cow-boob. Thousands of years later, not much has changed: Americans consume approximately 630 pounds of dairy products—including milk, cheese, yogurt and ice cream—per year. Whether these...
“Put yourself in their shoes,” people say when they want to remind us that perhaps the person we’re judging has shoes with way more piled-up crap on them than our own. It means, essentially, show some empathy: Stand where they stand and see the world from their...
