Donnacha broke both of his knees. At 40 years old, he’d just moved into a new apartment. Since he was the compulsive exercising sort, his first two purchases were an air mattress and a cheap pull-up bar he installed in the doorway. It was a Saturday afternoon,...
Love doing nothing but can’t stand having to think about your nothingness (aka mindfulness)? Well, have I got a concept for you: It’s called niksen, and it’s a hot Dutch lifestyle trend that encourages you to do nothing. Or rather, the word means “doing nothing for nothing,”...
We told you recently that light smoking — smoking fewer than 10 cigarettes a day — increases overall mortality by 87 percent. Smoking even half a cigarette a day still increases overall mortality by 67 percent. If you were holding out hope that someone would eventually produce a single solitary health...
Everyone has a crappy day every now and again, but for Anish Sheth, co-author of What’s Your Poo Telling You?, it’s been a rewardingly crappy life. “Growing up in a family of physicians, poo was a common topic around the dinner table,” explains Sheth. “It was health-related,...
“Once you take on a task, never let it go, even if you are killed.” So begins a 1951 employee handbook at Dentsu, Japan’s largest ad agency, written by its then-president Hideo Yoshida. Sixty-four years later, Matsuri Takahashi, a 24-year-old graduate recruit at Dentsu, leapt from her...
All I remember is that it was purple. When you visit Portland, Oregon, there are a handful of culinary experiences everyone insists you must check off: Ice Cream, Thai food, the tin-foil artistry encasing your leftovers from a certain Cajun restaurant, and of course, Voodoo Doughnuts. Admittedly,...
Welcome to DSC Original Content’s weekly podcast, where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in mere minutes. In this edition, learn how much more exercise cavemen did than you; find out why our bodies look so different to those of our ancestors; and discover the...
Got stuck? No problem. Here are the answers to this month’s puzzles: ROMPECABEZA UNO: Boris & Moira; Aidan & Carla; Buddy & Nancy; Jimmy & Irene; Allan & Carol; Jerry & Dolly; Lloyd & Linda; Tommy & Erica; Alwin & Donna; Frank & Fleur. ROMPECABEZA DOS: F=9,...
Pizza that’s been left in the fridge undergoes a process similar to that of a (perfectly adequate) caterpillar metamorphosing into a (shockingly delicious) butterfly: It radically transforms within its protective casing, eventually emerging as a new, improved, even more desirable beast. Here’s why that happens. First and...
Eighty percent of my body is covered in tattoos. I’m intensely protective of them: I sport long sleeves in 100-degree weather to avoid excessive sun exposure; I exfoliate regularly to prevent dead-skin build-up; and I moisturize (my entire body) daily to thwart wrinkles and tired-looking skin. I...
The millenial man: He dates while living at home. His mom buys his clothes. He yearns for chin implants. He doesn’t like boobs. And in continued defiance of traditional masculine expectations, he’s also — according to new research from the Institute for Family Studies — less likely to cheat. That’s right:...
There are two ways to wake up from a nap: refreshed, invigorated and raring to go, or like a reanimated corpse who isn’t sure what century it is. The latter is called sleep inertia, that temporary period of grogginess, disorientation, drowsiness, sleepiness, reduced alertness and impaired performance...
