There’s nothing an avid runner loves to do more — aside from sniffing their own farts, and casually mentioning the new personal record they set in their most recent 10K — than bragging about achieving that elusive runner’s high. To hear them tell it, runners enter a blissed-out trance every time...
Bad news first: Turns out we are all, each of us, in some way or another, totally alone. Not just in the existential sense that death is unfortunately a single-seat ticket to the terrifyingly unknown next level, but it’s now understood that standard-issue loneliness for living, breathing...
Dating is impossibly difficult. Living under your parents’ roof past age 18 is even more difficult. Put the two together and you come away with an awkwardness cocktail that smacks of basement must and secondhand embarrassment. In 2016, a Pew Research Center analysis found that living at...
“Personal finance.” You know you should be doing it, but if your eyes glaze over when you hear those words, you’re not alone. The sheer number of investment options, the risk involved, the alphabet soup of terminology and the smarmy veneer of stereotypical “wealth managers” — the people who...
Once upon a time, Mary had a little lamb. One day, that little lamb was slaughtered and a thin layer of that lamb’s cecum — a part of its intestine — was made into a condom so that you could use it to have sex without making babies. And everyone lived...
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.
There have always been cultures, groups and individuals — sports, the military, fitness freaks, the hyper-successful — who claim that negative self-talk is motivating for them in a way positivity can’t touch. But can that ever really be a good thing? I asked Chicago psychologist Jacqueline Duke. “For some, the use of shame...
Welcome to the future: Researchers recently took an important step forward in mimicking how the human body produces sperm, and could one day (likely 10 or so years from now) create artificial, lab-grown sperm and eggs for infertility treatment. It’s all quite science-y, but here’s the gist,...
Welcome to DSC Original Content’s weekly podcast, where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in mere minutes. In this edition, learn why you’ll feel terrible when you give up carbs; find out why you should stop trying to give up fat this year; and discover...
Listen closely while you’re reading the words on this page. Are you hearing each one in your head as you go, as if you’re tuning in to a podcast inside your head? If so, is it being presented in your own voice? What if I told you...
Is he looking at me? Why is he looking at me? Why is he grunting like that? Does he have to hover so close? I’ll just wait until he leaves. Uh oh, someone else just walked in… That’s my best guess at the inner monologue of a...
Don’t have three hours a day to spend at the gym? Not interested in bulging like a bodybuilder? Unmoved by promises of “fat-blasting, ab-chiseling monster workouts”? This is the column for you, fellow regular human with very little free time. … The Man Name: Frank G., Mahwah,...
