Figuring out how much money you need for retirement is enough to make you drink. Some quick math: Say you need $50,000 a year to live. And say you plan on retiring at 65 and living to 85. That means you need to save roughly $1 million...
It depends on where you most look like a human werewolf. If your body hair is thickest on your arms, legs and back, you might be mocked as much as the Chia Pet you resemble. But it won’t cause you to smell any worse than your smooth-skinned...
Yippee ki-yay mother truckers! The answer to January’s #DSCRompecabeza has arrived with a vengeance. Check below to see how you did: Fill 5-gallon jug. Fill 3-gallon jug with water from the 5-gallon jug. Pour out 3-gallon jug. Transfer water from the 5-gallon jug to the 3-gallon jug. Refill...
If Kevin Lavelle is sweating the start-up life, it’s impossible to tell. But that’s partly because of the shirts, pants and blazers his clothing line Mizzen + Main offers. They look business casual cool but incorporate the kind of fabric found in gym wear. His idea being that no...
For those of you familiar with the five o’clock shadow, the irritation begins mere hours after you shave. Or put another way, the exact moment your sharp, razor-shorn hairs poke through the surface of your skin. “Shaving your beard with a razor cuts the hairs at an...
No single leather bag made by Jed Frost is like any of his others. Which is the point. Each one is customized for its owner. And so, each owner works with Frost to incorporate elements of their life and personality into the design. In fact, no memory is...
It’s no coincidence that the holiday season’s mascot is a morbidly obese guy who gorges himself on cookies. Forget about presents and obnoxious sweaters, binge-eating is the true star of December’s holiday festivities. But it’s not your fault that you keep reaching for seconds and thirds and...
For most people, curling is a sport that only takes place during the Winter Olympics—or in Canada. But not for DSC member Matt Galas, the co-founder of the Windy City Curling Club. Since April, Matt’s been hard at work in the Chicago-area getting people hooked on the...
Serial, the spin-off This American Life podcast that is sweeping the brains of all your friends, has been broadcasting weekly episodes for more than two months. If somehow you haven’t heard, it’s a true-crime radio-style series about the 1999 murder of 18-year-old Baltimore high school kid Hae...
Here on the other side of the pond, rugby is still somewhat perplexing. But in a good way. Like pop rocks. So we got in touch with Peter Mullins, a DSC member and player for the Chicago Riot Rugby Football Club—to take us inside the scrum. ...
Your earbuds, of course, spend most of their time in your ears, getting warm, waxy and sweaty. But you also probably put them in your pocket, drop them on the subway and maybe even share them with other people. In each of these instances, your earbuds are...
Twenty years ago, on November 15, 1994, writer Mark Simpson invented the term metrosexual. Writing for Britain’s Independent newspaper, he was the first to classify this new urban class of well-to-do men: Metrosexual man, the single young man with a high disposable income, living or working in...
