Cleaning your sullied behind with toilet paper is a feeble and unsanitary undertaking, something my colleague Tracy Moore made remarkably clear when she stated, in no uncertain terms, “You’re wiping your butt wrong.” Besides being powerless against stubborn poop, vigorous wiping with TP can contribute to an...
Ever had the urge to walk right across America, from Mexico to Canada, all by yourself? These three guys have — on the Pacific Crest Trail, or PCT, a months-long, 2,650-mile hike through California, Oregon and Washington. What’s it like being outside and on the move for several...
Time keeps on slipping, and since my job involves staring at an endless number of miniature words on an incredibly bright computer screen, I suspect that having to wear glasses is in the cards for me. I’m not mad about it or anything: I actually think glasses...
In the U.S., on average, 20 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant. On the face of it, this makes no sense: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were 2,813,503 registered deaths in the country in 2017: That’s nearly 8,000 per day....
So you want to change things up, huh? I don’t blame you. I often find myself wearing the same old clothes until my girlfriend inevitably complains about my T-shirts turning into caveman-style torso wraps. I also haven’t had a considerable haircut since some time back in 2015,...
When it comes to working out, we’re not all strongmen like Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (aka The Mountain). In fact, many of us could go our entire lives and still have no clue how a lat pull-down differs from an incline bench. Which is to say, there’s no shame in not...
Often mistaken for being older than you actually are? Spotted your first gray hair the other day? Having an existential crisis about the meaningless of life and/or which kind of soup you should heat up for supper? Whatever the reason you want to look a bit younger,...
There are a lot of different ways to contract the dreaded runs — there’s bacterial infections, allergic reactions and spicy potato chips, just to name a few. But all forms of the runs are not equal. While many can be pretty easily tamed by over-the-counter antidiarrheals, some...
15 years ago, when I was 12 years old, my friends and I were obsessed with being able to grow mustaches. Strange, I know, but there was just something about having the capacity to readily sprout a dense tache that signified manhood and perhaps even freedom from...
It’s the most scantily clad time of the year. We’ve got highs of 100 degrees all weekend in the sweltering L.A. suburb I call home. And as the heat increases, people traditionally beat it by opting to wear as little clothing as possible. In my case, that...
In Elizabethan England, a time when ruffs were hot and Shakespeare was composing an endless string of dirty jokes, dudes worshipped makeup, caking their faces with pearl-white powder to make themselves the height of style. And although 400 years have passed since this heyday of male makeup,...
Sure, we all know sugar is bad. But what about the other options, like artificial sugar or possibly even a glob of honey? Can I add those to my morning coffee without suffering from the many debilitating ailments associated with sugar? To find out, I asked nutritionist David...
