The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council (it’s a real thing!) estimates that the majority of hot dogs consumed by Americans each year are devoured between Memorial Day and Labor Day, with 7 billion hot dogs slithering their way through Americans’ digestive tracts. Some of these, inevitably, will be...
Despite living at a time when science (mostly) trumps tradition, some of us still believe in old home remedies — like, for instance, curing body odor with vinegar or soothing dry skin with olive oil. But do any of these supposed “grooming life hacks” actually hold any...
The most common piece of seemingly useless advice everyone receives is to “sleep it off.” Obliterated on booze and got an early flight? Sleep it off. Sick as a dog? Sleep it off. So frustrated at work you almost rage-quit this afternoon? Yeah, sleep that off, too....
The contents of most gym bags are, clothing sizes aside, pretty interchangeable. Everyone has the standards: Shoes, shorts, socks, headphones, etc. The other thing most gym bags have in common is that their contents rarely, if ever, get updated. Sure, you switch up your T-shirts now and...
The human body is filled to the brim with gallons of oozing substances that serve many varied and vital functions. This is something we’re all aware of on some level, and most of the time we’re perfectly happy to go about our day with all these liquids...
We live in an age where just about any science-related question can be answered (mostly accurately) by the internet, and yet many of us still believe a bunch of old wives’ tales about our health: The number of people who still believe that cold weather causes sickness...