Our hardworking society oftentimes encourages workers to choose between their careers and their significant others. After all, to your CEO, less time spent with your partner is more time spent at your desk. Which presents the question: When should you choose work over your relationship? Relationships expert...
When my editor approached me about listing an assortment of salts in order of how healthy they are, I assumed that he’d gone crazy. I honestly believed that there was no possible way to meaningfully rank various types of salt by how good for us they are....
We all know that being in the military means being trained to do things in the most efficient manner possible, and according to this article on military.com, that also applies to taking a shower: “In Marine Corps boot camp, the first couple of weeks will be spent...
Much like humans, spiders have to drink water, which explains why they might hang out in your bath or shower stall. But unfortunately for those spiders, spending time in the bathroom might also mean being washed down the drain whenever you decide to take a shower (after...
I’m one of those people who can’t sleep without my ceiling fan whirring on full speed above my bed (apologies to my chronically frigid girlfriend), so you can imagine my dismay when a recent string of articles suggested that sleeping with a fan on poses some significant...
A modern truism: America’s lengthy history of hating on shorts has bred whole generations of inexperienced male shorts-wearers. This unfamiliarity with bare-legged style has led to many a heinous outfit, such as the classic “dad on vacation” look of jean shorts, knee-high socks and sandals. The good...
You may have been told by some desperate parent, in an effort to make you eat your cruciferous vegetables, that broccoli is “the toothbrush of the colon.” In our ongoing efforts to answer every dumb question we’ve ever had, we checked in with our favorite food expert,...
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...
Men spend an average of one hour and 35 minutes on the toilet each week, according to a recent study—that’s about 14 minutes per day. This should surprise no one, considering that 53 percent of guys get caught up staring at their phones while sitting on the...
Conventional wisdom argues that whole-fat dairy products are less healthy than their low-fat counterparts. But because there’s no study on food that won’t be immediately contradicted by a different study, new findings published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition challenge this notion by suggesting that consuming...
Ruh-roh: Research published this week reveals that city dwellers are regularly inhaling antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). What does this actually mean for you, a regular guy who breathes air? It means that your once easily-treatable infections may acquire the ability to survive antibiotic treatment—and eventually evolve into...
Most of us wear sunglasses for two reasons and two reasons only: To quit squinting and to look suave as heckin’ heck. But there’s one even better reason to wear sunglasses, according to Christopher Quinn, O.D., president of the American Optometric Association: To not go completely blind....