“Death by memo”: It’s a complaint often heard in the workplace, when great ideas get stomped into dust by numbing protocols and procedure. But for all its reputation as the last word in banal bureaucratic buzz-kill, the internal memorandum has often, in its history, carried actual life-or-death...
It’s hot this summer. Historically hot! Destructive wildfires are raging around the world, and even in the places that aren’t burning, it sure as hell feels like it is. Thank science for air conditioning! Well, when you’re in front of it, at least, and not several storeys...
When it comes to ice cream, the trend of the last few years is to push weird flavor pairings hard—ones that theoretically shouldn’t compliment each other, but kinda do. Thanks to artisanal ice cream shops like Salt and Straw, Jeni’s and McConnell’s, flavors like Goat Cheese with...
Americans have finally gotten the memo to take more vacation, but they’re still doing it wrong. Recent research from Project: Time Off finds that we are at peak vacation usage, the likes of which haven’t been seen since 2010. In 2017, we took an average of 17...
Humankind has been pondering the age-old question of whether shampoo or conditioner is the superior grooming agent since the dawn of time—or at least since Adam Sandler made them eternal rivals that were fighting for dominance of his scalp in Billy Madison. Despite having common enemies in...
I’ve written a lot about pizza, including why cold pizza is the best pizza, whether pizza for breakfast is healthier than cereal and if sausage on pizza is better for you than the crust. Clearly, I’m obsessed (or at the very least, infatuated) with pizza, but I’m also aware...
If there’s one thing all humans can agree on, it’s that washing the dishes is miserable. So much so, in fact, that many professional dishwashers admit that the only way to get through their shifts is to get messed up first. “I’ve been washing dishes for 3 years...
For the uninitiated, a vasectomy is a sterilization of sorts whereby a doctor cuts the vas deferens — the part of the male reproductive system that carries sperm from the testicles to the urethra — and ties or seals them to prevent your swimmers from entering into the urethra and impregnating...
Stop staring at your phone and just do the dang workout, bro! We get it: You’re a gym rat who can’t wait to tell your bros about your “grueling three-hour pump sesh.” Because you are the pump sesh, and the pump sesh is you. But here’s the...
According to a recent survey conducted by sleep tips website SleepZoo, nearly two-thirds of Americans have work-related stress dreams. “The findings aren’t surprising since people dream about what’s important to them,” Deirdre Leigh Barrett, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School, told Today. “Work both occupies a huge...
America — it’s the land of opportunity. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We expect to live our lives how we want to, dammit, and for some people, that includes not only the right to bear arms, but the right to bare butt. You might...
The “I wish I could be someone I’m not” market — known more commonly as self-help — is worth nearly $10 billion in the U.S., which means there are a lot of people out there who are desperately trying to change. Like a lot, a lot: One 2014 study followed its...
