Quarantined or otherwise, people will almost certainly find a way to soak up the sun this summer, converting their backyards into beaches, planting lounge chairs on their patios and even climbing up onto their roofs if necessary. Hey, some people will truly stop at nothing to become...
On a train, or in a plane. In a house, or with a mouse — it doesn’t matter where, or who you are, headaches affect virtually everyone at some point in their life. We get them while we’re working, from straining to see the computer screen; we...
If you could only eat one thing a day and it had to be the same thing every day, you really only have two options: 1) You could eat a potato; or 2) you could eat rice and beans. For variety’s sake, don’t pick the potato. Admittedly,...
The shortest answer to this question is: Nothing good, unless you wish to be featured in the Guinness World Records and/or the nightmares of small children. Just ask Lee Redmond, who grew her fingernails out to a record-shattering combined length of 28 feet, four inches. Admirable though...
I want to beat the heck out of whoever invented the phrase “starve a cold, feed a fever” — same goes for the inverse, “feed a cold, starve a fever.” Like hey, I know your head feels like a leaky water balloon, but you know what will...
If you’ve spent any amount of time listening to AM radio, no doubt you’ve heard ads where some nondescript man bemoans his lack of a sex drive or manliness, and then is followed by a voiceover recommending some variation on a course of testosterone — the idea...
I hate cardio, so I don’t run. That’s the truth. But if anyone asks, I fall back on one of the more commonly accepted arguments against running — particularly, that it’s hell for your knees. With gyms closed and nowhere else to go, though, lots of people have taken up running...
Ah, fat — 30 years ago, when it came to healthy eating, it was Public Enemy No. 1. Back then, conventional wisdom suggested that getting too much “fat” in your food would make you gain weight, and cutting back on fatty meals would help you lose it....
It’s weeks into most states’ COVID-induced quarantine, and the change of routine is, for many of us, the new normal. Outside the house is now bad, and inside is our cocoon of safety. In an amazing display of ingenuity, that’s led to a number of innovations in...
In early January, as hordes of people were reminding themselves that working out sucks, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan released a promising study proposing what could someday become a miraculous pill that mimics the effects of exercise. Naturally, much of the media heard “exercise pill” and...
Earwax comes in many guises, varying in color from amber to brown to gray to black, its consistency ranging from wet and gooey to dry and flakey. But whatever its form, it’s universally considered gross and unwelcome by the general public, which is unfortunate, because this nasty-seeming...
There’s plenty of advantages to self-isolating indoors all the time: You’re away from the elements like rain and snow, you’ve (hopefully) got a warm place to sleep and, above all in trying times like these, you’re safe from the scourge of the coronavirus. Unfortunately, there’s one annoying...
