When the livestreaming app Periscope first appeared, I was in love. I even wrote about it for The Daily Dot, calling it “the closest we’ll get to spinning a globe and ending up exactly where our finger lands.” Since then, the livestreaming thing has taken off — mostly thanks...
Welcome to DSC Original Content’s biweekly podcast, where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in just a few minutes. In this edition, we’ll be finding out what it’s like at the bottom of the ocean, from its dark, high-pressure depths to extremes of cold and...
In 2014, a New York Times Magazine cover story titled “Does a More Equal Marriage Mean Less Sex?” sent the internet into a frenzy. Citing a study in The American Sociological Review suggesting that heterosexual couples who left the cooking and cleaning to the women had more...
Taylor Wallace doesn’t remember the record he saw first. He’s pretty sure, though, it was one of the following: Lionel Richie’s Dancing on the Ceiling, Jane Fonda’s Abs, Buns and Thighs, the soundtrack from Zorba the Greek or something from Kris Kross. What he does know is...
Violence has the power to change us, even if we escape from it physically unscathed. The trauma of battle, of bombings, of fleeing one’s home, can leave people with crippling post-traumatic stress disorder for years after the violence has stopped — suffering through nightmares and depression, flashbacks and constant...
After collecting more than a million plastic bottles, Robert Bezeau made an unconventional decision — he turned those bottles into timber for a house on the tiny Panamanian island of Bocas del Toro. But his vision for a new kind of mass recycling program doesn’t end there. Next, he...
In case you’re just checking in for the first time this week, we’ve rounded up our picks of the best stories from the last few days for you to peruse. We know, we know, we’re amazing. Apparently, Less Than Two Thirds of Men Shower Once a Day...
Every Saturday, we round up the funniest comments you left for us on our articles. This week, we somehow instigated an argument about shrews: Then our article on finding a commute time that won’t kill you led to some darkly funny confessions: And finally, it looks like our...
A large swath of the American electorate is convinced Donald J. Trump will make a fabulous president simply because he’s a good negotiator. Little do they know that Trump’s best-selling negotiation manual, The Art of the Deal, was ghostwritten by Tony Schwartz, who publicly renounced the book...
You probably don’t give much thought to your pockets beyond cramming your cellphone and wallet into them. But not only do all your pockets have their own names, some of them even have origin stories. The watch pocket—that thin slot behind the main hip pocket on your jeans—for example: Although...
Welcome to DSC Original Content’s biweekly podcast, where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in just a few minutes. In this edition, we’ll be finding out why it’s impossible to dig a hole through the center of the Earth. The answer involves temperatures hotter than...
“It’s better when it’s fresh,” Ari Nagel explained to the New York Post in June, emerging from the men’s bathroom at a Brooklyn Target looking a little flushed and quite pleased with himself. Nagel, aka “The Sperminator,” a 40-year-old CUNY Kingsborough math professor, has fathered a number...
