On an upcoming episode of MEL: On Air, we’re focusing on the theme of Lost Loves Found. To that end, we’ll be talking to a professor who’s convinced she’s discovered the perfect formula for reconnecting with your high school sweetheart; a man who became so obese that...
Are you one of those guys who wants to look stylish but finds it doesn’t come all that naturally? We feel you. Don’t fret: With some advice from Jessica Chance, men’s stylist at Rag & Bone and menswear blogger, we’re all going to learn how to dress...
Potty Talk is a one-panel comic about the funny thoughts, observations and fears men have in the bathroom. This week’s is from illustrator Burton Durand. Check out his Instagram here.
Spend enough time on Yelp, and you’ll lose your faith in the wisdom of the crowd. Someone will give a Sichuan restaurant one star for including Sichuan peppercorns in their food, and then go on to rave about the turkey melt at Subway. But sometimes, in the...
Welcome to our biweekly podcast, “I Learned A Thing In The Bathroom,” where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in just a few minutes. In this edition, we’ll be looking at what really happens to the human body during teleportation; the absurdly long time the...
“All you can eat” is more than just a business model for buffets — it’s a dream, a utopia, the promise of the infinite plenty of the cornucopia, rolled up into four magic words. At a buffet, the bowls aren’t just big; they’re bottomless. The refills aren’t just free;...
Visit any personal finance website or read any book on the subject and you’re sure to be told that one of the easiest, most effective ways to reduce spending is to pack your own lunch. Personal finance guru Dave Ramsey says brown-bagging it to work can help...
Seven years ago, Michael Airhart and his now-wife were living in South Korea, earning less than $40,000 a year each as teachers. Their dream was to save $100,000 so they could build and manage their own boutique hotel, so they enacted a savings strategy known as the...
Most of us work more than we live, which is to say we spend considerably more time at the office and with our coworkers than we do with the human beings we actually want in our lives. It also means that the stressors and anxieties of work...
Most of us overeat at Thanksgiving, either because we can’t control our appetites or just because, come on, Thanksgiving food is delicious. But no matter how much mashed potato and turkey you manage to guzzle this year, you can take comfort in knowing that compared to some of...
When Kristen Barber’s father, a stunt pilot born in 1925, needed to look good, he’d turn to products marketed at his wife to get the job done, including hair dye and moisturizer. But by 2003, when Barber’s youngest brother was a tween, the landscape of products available...
There’s no meal quite like Thanksgiving dinner to remind us that we’re at the absolute mercy of our appetites. No one really needs that third helping of turkey-topped taters—except, perhaps, Tarrare, the disgusting French glutton we talked about in November’s issue of Bathroom Minutes. But since we’re...
