Age affects everyone differently. Maybe you’re baby-faced and still get carded for R-rated movies at 27 (to pick a completely random example that certainly didn’t happen to me just last week). Or maybe you were habitually put in charge of buying the booze in 8th grade because...
Everyone knows at least one, “Those were the good ol’ days” kind of guy. The guy who’s still talking about his friends from his old job, even though he’s been at this one for four years. The guy who talks about his old college drinking escapades every...
Anxiety, like the people it inhabits, comes in all shapes, sizes and forms. A 2015 Independent article cited one redditor who posted her patient’s description of anxiety as a never-ending limbo: “She explained the feeling as if she tripped and the moment where you don’t know if...
In early March, an article from 2016 recirculated, featuring the attention-grabbing claim that menstrual cramps can be as painful as a heart attack. Though the comparison was challenged, major women’s publications like Elle UK and Marie Claire spread the story, prompting surprise for plenty of men — and celebration...
There may come a day when you honorably decide to become an organ donor — not just as a dead vessel full of handy spare parts, but as an actual, living person. The need for such living donors has never been greater: They offer a life-saving alternative to waiting...
Are you a man? Do you often dream of traveling to far off places, like outer space? Do you dream about having sex? Because according to a new study from Mattress Advisor, these are the things your subconscious is most commonly conjuring up when you’re sleeping. The...
Penile cancer may be the one thing in the world I’d never wish on my worst enemy. Not only is it cancer, it’s a cancer that can result in the partial or even total removal of your penis: That’s pretty much every man’s bleakest nightmare. On the...
I love coffee. So when the opportunity came along to inject coffee up my butt, I did what any member of the millennial hipster-scum class would do: I gleefully volunteered on the condition that I could order the small-batch organic beans. The excitement began to fade when...
Welcome to DSC Original Content’s weekly podcast, where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in mere minutes. In this edition, learn what’s responsible for making your ears pop; find out the real reason you get sick when you fly (it’s not the recycled air!); and...
When it comes to human tears, the scientific community mostly cries uncle. “We hardly know what happens when we cry,” says Ad Vingerhoets, a professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and the one of the world’s foremost experts on crying. The only thing they’re completely certain...
My dad and I, we look alike. In fact, we look a lot like, which is perfectly normal, considering he’s one half of my reason for existence. But for those kids who don’t necessarily look much like their fathers, it might explain why some of those relationships...
Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d have to write: Your pee is a golden elixir that opens a sparkling window into your overall health. Ugh. But it’s true: Here are all the things your pee can tell you, according to urology nurse practitioner Anne Calvaresi: You’re...
