Last month, we ran an article calling out ten common health and grooming life hacks that are total BS. But there are some home remedies that have an actual basis in science: Below, you’ll find five common ailments that, according to recent research, you may be able...
If you’ve recently come upon hard times and recycling bottles and cans isn’t quite cutting it, you’re probably eyeing that lucrative organ black market and wondering, Do I really need two kidneys? How about both lungs? Is it possible to live without my stomach — or just a portion...
Set the alarm and hit the sack, already: People with regular bedtimes, while arguably very boring and predictable, are also more successful. A study of 61 undergrads at Harvard found that those who slept the most erratically had lower grade point averages, The Independent reported, because erratic...
When we published our guide to treating every minor bathroom injury recently, we asked you to share your weirdest bathroom injuries—and boy, did you make us realize just how dangerous the bathroom (and everything in it) can be. Below are ten of your most embarrassing bathroom horror...
PSA: All quality condoms have an expiration date printed on both the box and the foil packaging. This, of course, is a fruitless effort by condom manufacturers, since most people using them are either distracted by the naked person who wants to have sex with them; fumbling...
Don’t have three hours a day to spend at the gym? Not interested in bulging like a bodybuilder? Unmoved by promises of “fat-blasting, ab-chiseling monster workouts”? This is the column for you, fellow regular human with very little free time. … The Man Simon, Montclair, N.J. Age:...
The frying pan, it turns out, isn’t fungi’s friend. According to researchers from the Mushroom Technological Research Center of La Rioja in Spain (yes, the Spanish have a mushroom research center), the best way to cook mushrooms while still preserving their nutritional properties is to heat them...
Last week in this space, we recounted a few of the things that lower the risk of prostate cancer — from balding to espresso to ejaculating once a day. The ejaculating part especially interested us, for obvious reasons but also because of the reason why. Per a 2003 study conducted by...
Did you know dads have superpowers? It’s true: Besides the ability to unerringly find every Lego brick with their bare feet, dads also possess lightning fast reflexes. That’s according to the multiple “Amazing Dad Reflexes!!!!!” videos perennially doing the rounds, at least, in which average-looking middle aged...
The human body: An inspiring biological work of art? Or a meaty sack of germs and fluids? Either way, there’s still a lot we don’t know about what goes on in there — and that scientists are constantly attempting to figure out. Here are the most interesting things we’ve...
Bad news for compulsive plate-clearers: The average size of many of our meals — whether from fast-food chains, sit-down restaurants or even the grocery store — has increased by as much as 138 percent since the 1970s, according to data from the American Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Nutrition...
Not ecstatic about your current sex life? Don’t have hours every day attempting to decipher all the sanskrit in the Kama Sutra? Unable to afford a suitcase full of sex toys? Here’s a sex help guide for you, fellow regular human who wants to be better in...