In the strange new world of eSports, where childhood dreams of getting paid to play video games are made reality, “gaming houses” have become the norm. It’s more Silicon Valley than National Lampoon’s Animal House; the premise sounds like an updated version of Real World: Five gamers...
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.
Lately you’ve been going through a few changes. Your brain is now registering salad. Your circulatory system is around 70 percent coffee. Your hormones are all over the place, telling you it’s late and you’ve got work in the morning. Please don’t be alarmed: This is all...
Welcome to DSC Original Content’s biweekly podcasts, where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in just a few minutes. In this edition, we’ll be looking at nature’s most unpleasant zombifications, from brain-exploding fungus to a barnacle that will make you afraid to go back in...
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...
Keith Lippa — bald, tan and a touch paunchy, shoulders slightly hunched underneath a red polo and pair of khakis — ambles into Hiro Sushi, a nondescript Japanese restaurant in Richmond, Virginia. He settles into one of the many empty black booths for what will be a welcome break from his...
Fact: Men will never best women in the competition for who suffers more through pregnancy and childbirth. But that doesn’t mean they don’t suffer at all — or that their suffering is insignificant. Two recent studies (both from Dr. Craig Garfield, an associate professor of pediatrics and medical social...
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. Podcast: Dinosaur Fights! Ever wondered if a T-Rex and a Triceratops...
Every Saturday, we round up the funniest comments you left for us on our articles. This week, our debate on whether to sit or stand when peeing at night caused a lot of conversation, and one of the greatest analogies we’ve ever seen. Meanwhile, one reader brought up a...
Bagpipes Can Kill You Bagpipes have consistently proved themselves to be less a musical instrument than a novelty torture device, and now, to add to their legacy of evil, they have been found to be lethal. A 61-year-old piper from, of course, Scotland, recently died from what...
Walk-up music is so synonymous with Major League Baseball that part of the fun of going to a game is hearing what songs will pump through the stadium speakers when the home team’s players step into the batter’s box. And those songs can become part of a...
If I’m supposed to measure my life in love (per Rent, the musical), can I measure my days in knowledge? How about advice? Here’s some from serial entrepreneur John Greathouse, who wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this week: In a similar fashion, women in...
