Laptops are so named because they’re designed to sit on your lap — no surprise there. So surely we’re fine to keep doing that, right? Turns out: Not so much. Convenient as it is to slump on the couch with your computer, creating a heat-sink by your scrotum is never...
Back in April, the official Twitter account of Sweden maddened many by posting that Swedish meatballs—the national dish of Sweden—actually originated in none other than Turkey. Swedish meatballs are actually based on a recipe King Charles XII brought home from Turkey in the early 18th century. Let's...
There’s something undeniably Shakespearean about a hangover poop. It may not be a tragic love story between two people per se, but it’s undeniably harrowing, climactic and humorous, and its irreverence is open to myriad interpretations. For a more recent literary endorsement, Charles Bukowski dug them too...
Real estate is obscenely expensive these days: The median home price nationwide in April 2018 was $312,000, which is an eye-watering 50 percent increase over the past 10 years. But if you live in or around a city like New York, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle or basically...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
Most of us know what the basics are when it comes to laundry tags—we recognize “Don’t tumble dry this, idiot,” and “Put the iron away, you’re going to kill us all!” But there are many more confounding icons to be found in your clothes’ labels: Here’s your...
It’s 4 a.m. You’re hunched over your desk. You’re bleary-eyed. And your legs are shaking. No, you’re not a reclusive genius trying to unlock the mathematical formula for cold fusion: You’re just an average student begging your brain to memorize the quadratic formula so you can achieve...
Every bathroom is filled with creams, pastes and gels that we use to keep ourselves looking, feeling and smelling fresh. But despite how often we put the those products on (and in!) our bodies, most of us have no idea how they work. To find out exactly...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
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.
We typically think of women as the gender that is uniquely beholden to mystifyingly restrictive rules of fashion — no mini skirts after 35, always remove one accessory, every woman must own a little black dress. Turns out, men have one clothing item that’s at least, or arguably even...
Is today’s man spending that much more time in the bathroom than his forebears? Writer Chris Bourn went in search of his family grooming history to find out. In the past few years there’s been growing evidence—or at least, an increasing number of headline-baiting surveys—suggesting that men...
