It’s an all-too-common feeling: You’ve left work, run some errands and ordered delivery for dinner from the convenience of your car. You think you’ve got everything under control (the contents of your bladder most of all), but once you exit your vehicle and insert your key into...
Whether it’s seeing our home team lose or splitting up with a partner, we’ve all had a cry at some point in our lives. Those big drops of sadness even have their own name, and are distinct from regular eye moisture: They’re referred to as emotional tears,...
You might be vigilant about flushing toilets with your feet, swimming in hand sanitizer after riding the subway and avoiding bare-handed contact with bathroom door knobs, but did you know there’s a veritable petri dish of malevolent bacteria swimming in your pockets? Case in point: In a...
First, a bit of poo-101: Bowel movements are the end result of eliminating what’s left after your body takes the nutrients it needs from the food you eat. Water makes up about 75 percent of it, while the rest is a gross combo of dead and live...
When asked how he prepares to play Wolverine, Hugh Jackman revealed a trick he uses to get into the mindset of the rage-filled X-Man: “I take very ice cold showers in the morning, because it really pisses me off,” he told the Los Angeles Times. Which makes...
Alcohol, tobacco and prescription drugs are a few well-known causes of erectile dysfunction. But plenty of guys who don’t touch the stuff experience erectile dysfunction, too — and for many different reasons. Below, you’ll find five lesser-known causes of erectile dysfunction, explained by Dr. Seth Cohen, assistant...
Alongside our expert advisor Dr. Anthony Rossi, dermatologist, assistant professor at Cornell’s Weill Medical College and source of all our ingrown hair knowledge, we’re here to help you figure out why that unsightly bump is there (and more importantly, how to make it disappear). What is this...
One in three American adults have high blood pressure, which significantly increases their chances of developing heart disease and having a stroke — the first and fifth leading causes of death in the country. But according to new research, the cure could be as simple as taking...
There’s no denying that what we see in the mirror has an impact on how we feel about ourselves as a person. But what is it about our appearance that has such a strong hold on our self-esteem? Erica Hornthal, movement therapist and owner of Chicago Dance...
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...
The idea of drinking recycled water — that is, water that’s been taken from your toilet, mixed with other people’s toilet water and then cleaned up — naturally makes a lot of people very squeamish. Surprise fun fact for everyone currently insisting they would rather die than...
You’ve no doubt heard the stories of pizzerias who never wash their pans, and the avid bakers who do likewise. They do (or rather, don’t do) this, the legend goes, because the years of flavor baked into those pans is imparted to each new batch of baked...