So you went out drinking and woke up with a shiny new hunk of metal in your ear/nose/eyebrow/frenulum, huh? On the bright side, you kinda like how it looks! But if you want to keep it, you need to take care of it, or else you could...
Someone, somewhere needs donor blood roughly every two seconds in the U.S., according to the American Red Cross. Unfortunately, summer is a rough patch for blood banks from coast to coast, as the number of donations fall when regular donors go on vacation and schools close. “Giving blood...
Getting a haircut can sometimes feel like being operated on, at least in the sense that some person is chopping away at an extension of your body with an assortment of extremely sharp metallic items. It can be especially disconcerting when your barber keeps whipping out all...
Of all the things you might consider in the aftermath of a breakup, I posit that it’s unlikely you stopped to consider that, had you and your significant other had an extra few hundred square feet of space in the apartment you shared, maybe you’d still be...
According to the American Hair Loss Association, a whopping 85 percent of men experience noticeable hair loss by age 50. The one upside is, at least all those dudes can commiserate together. But those who deal with conspicuous hair loss at a much younger age — say,...
Research shows that human homes harbor an average of 100 different insect species, regardless of cleanliness or the presence of pets, which often provide outdoor bugs with free (albeit bumpy) rides to the great indoors. Glancing around my home office, I see a small spider hanging in an upper...
A few years back, the internet pointed and laughed when a young baseball fan got a brain freeze after slamming a slushee. And while we’re far too mature to laugh at such a thing (okay, we laughed too — sorry, kid), we did aim to find the...
I don’t know about you, but when I head to a buffet, I think of it as if I’m going to war. I don’t eat for hours beforehand, and when I get there, I make sure that I get my full money’s worth. Screw the salad bar and...
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....
