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 the reality of flying cars, from the insanely hard driving tests we’d have to...
It was the moment someone suggested setting up a Doodle poll to organize going for drinks that I realized something had gone wrong. You know how it goes. A casual agreement to go for drinks with more than one person all of a sudden gets stuck in...
In this week of excess, we’re covering gluttony in all its forms — from the traditional face-stuffing variety to people who can’t be regarded as anything other than gluttons for punishment. Here, we feature a woman who straddles the line between the two: 30-year-old Miki Sudo, winner of the...
In this week of excess, we’re covering gluttony in all its forms — from the traditional face-stuffing variety to people who can’t be regarded as anything other than a glutton for punishment. One of the best examples of the latter is 50-something Australian John Mostyn, who has spent a...
In this week of excess, we’re covering gluttony in all its forms — from the traditional face-stuffing variety to people who can’t be regarded as anything other than a glutton for punishment. One of the best examples of the latter is Dean Karnazes, a 54-year-old endurance runner who once...
If evolution has taught us anything, it’s that everything on the human body, from cuticles to goosebumps, serves a purpose—or at least, it did for our distant ancestors. Hair is no exception—below, you’ll find a top-to-bottom examination of every different type of fur sprouting from your body...
Australia Has Finally Produced an Animal That Won’t Kill Us Australia—also known as “God’s Nightmare Factory”—has more things that will bite, claw, poison, eat and simply scare you to death than any other country on Earth. From blue ringed octopi to funnel web spiders, the nation is...
When it comes to ER visits, Thanksgiving is no Fourth of July (with its finger-sacrificing backyard pyrotechnics) or St. Patrick’s Day (with its vomitous binge drinking). But that doesn’t mean the day of gluttony takes no physical toll. Especially the deep-fried turkeys—the number of home cooking fires...
Shaving head hair off completely can be a daunting prospect, even when you’ve committed to the idea. How should you prep your head? How do you shave the parts you can’t see? How do you know when you’re finished? Aren’t you at risk of little fuzzy patches?...
In this edition of It’s Not a Stupid Question, we’re looking at vibrating—a sensation many of us have experienced at the hands of a massage chair or perhaps something a little more personal. But what is it about jiggling that feels simultaneously soothing and stimulating at the...
It’s not Yuletide til’ grandma headbangs to a Christmas carol. So stretch out your neck, turn up the speakers and crank our “Rocking Christmas” Spotify playlist—it’s all your favorite Christmas songs, but louder. If you’re not a member and want to get a copy of the Bathroom...
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...
