“Whew! I’m tired!” Japanese anti-aging guru Koko Hayashi exclaims over Skype approximately 25 minutes into our 50-minute private face yoga session. While I’m personally not winded by any means, my face is admittedly strained. Hayashi, founder and certified face yoga instructor at Koka Face Yoga in L.A.,...
If you get squeamish around needles but you want some insight into how your body is doing these days, here’s an alternative: Ejaculate in a cup. According to a new study out of Italy that evaluated 5,177 male partners of infertile couples, if you have a lower than...
A couple of months ago, we shared a rather innocuous comic about running out of toilet paper while on the toilet: One Facebook user, however, was baffled that the man in the comic had his pants around his ankles while on the commode, and his comment launched an uproarious...
Last week, a listener of Dan Savage’s hit advice podcast Savage Love called in with a dilemma that will sound all-too-familiar for any post-collegiate American male: A guy makes a dude friend in college, and their relationships revolves primarily around partying, trying to meet women and making...
Age affects everyone differently. Maybe you’re baby-faced and still get carded for R-rated movies at 27 (to pick a completely random example that certainly didn’t happen to me just last week). Or maybe you were habitually put in charge of buying the booze in 8th grade because...
Tax season is here, and that means nearly 80 percent of taxpayers will be getting refunds. That’s a lot of checks! Which got us to wondering, considering the nightmarish complexities of just doing your own tax returns, how does the U.S. government handle all of this? Let’s...
Got stuck? No problem. Here are the answers to this month’s puzzles: ROMPECABEZA UNO: Dodge; Ruder; Itchy; Ninja; Koala Mystery Keyword: Drink ROMPECABEZA DOS:
“When it rains, it pours,” a friend once told me. Sure, it’s a cliché, but it seemed appropriate at the time. In particular, we were discussing the alternating phenomenon of the “hot streak” and the “dry spell.” During a hot streak, you can seemingly do no wrong...
Names like Brad and Chad may, rightly or wrongly, be synonymous with “douchebag.” But according to a new study, those guys earn more money — and it has nothing to do with their douche chills. According to a study from German job portal site Adzuna, men with one syllable...
Everyone knows at least one, “Those were the good ol’ days” kind of guy. The guy who’s still talking about his friends from his old job, even though he’s been at this one for four years. The guy who talks about his old college drinking escapades every...
I have an endless number of memories of my mom — most, if not all of them, in foreign countries — walking away from the sale of a leather purse unless she got it for the price she wanted. Refusing to budge always seemed like a solid strategy to me. After...
Kids tend to be fussy eaters. Case in point: And while there’s a biological reason for their pickiness — children are extra-sensitive to taste, smell and texture — the endless piles of leftover foods they create are frustrating and, for many, even guilt-inducing. “I know that I feel bad when tossing...
