Everybody loves a winner! Even toddlers. That’s what researchers from Aarhus University concluded in a new study into toddlers’ understanding of social status. In front of a group of 23 toddlers, a team of researchers presented two scenarios performed by puppets, with the goal of finding out...
Grief is complicated enough — the death of a loved one can turn your world upside-down as you try to move forward and make sense of a new life without that person. But what if, once some time has passed and the world starts to make sense again, the wound...
The idea of “blue balls” has always struck me as more of a defeated metaphor — disappointment over a hookup that fizzled out — rather than an actual medical condition. “I find it more appropriate to relate the color with how sad the situation really is,” sighed Sam, 32, to Bustle...
At 5-foot-3, Sam was shorter than most guys entering freshman year of high school. Still, it didn’t bother him. He was a late bloomer and knew teens went through growth spurts at different times. I’ll grow, he reassured himself. I’ll catch up. Years went by, though, and...
Dancing like your dad: You can dread it, you can deny it, but you can’t dodge it. Even the silkiest-hipped individual will, at some point, turn into something resembling a lobster being tasered whenever he attempts to move rhythmically. To illustrate this phenomenon, here is Prince William,...
Many of us have family members we love by default: They’re your blood, sure, but you don’t really get along. Spending time together is an obligation, not a choice — were they not related, you would never choose to spend time together. So what happens when they die? How...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
There are two kinds of people in this world: People who love an ice-cold beer in a piping hot shower, and people who’ve never tried it. For anyone who doesn’t know what a shower beer is or couldn’t guess, the enthusiasts at ShowerBeer.org have laid out the...
It’s easy to think of filing for divorce as some sort of ending, but while it may be the official end of a relationship, it’s really just the beginning of a long — and for many people, extremely annoying! — process. You often hear about people losing their house or their...
You might expect that some men would feel emasculated after being proposed to by their girlfriends, since men are historically—and yes, currently—the ones who usually do the proposing. According to CBS, only five percent of people who are currently married say that the woman was the one...
Two decades ago, I was a 15-year-old meathead awash in a sea of meathead jargon. I tipped the scales at 240 pounds of puffy, puberty-powered muscle — big and “swole,” but not quite “buff” and certainly not “ripped” or “cut.” I referred to the pizza slices I downed by...
What’s the hardest thing about being a parent? Well, there’s the leveling up as a human to care for someone more than ourselves. The ungodly amount of snack preparation. The profound sleeplessness. And the insane vulnerability of caring for another person knowing you could screw it all up....