My preferred way of watching baseball is to have the game muted and playing on a TV at a bar. That’s because I don’t even watch baseball, but for some reason, I’m completely unable to look away if it’s playing on the wall behind the person I’m...
Everyone accidentally bites their own tongue from time to time, which is totally ridiculous when you think about it. In terms of your body’s awareness of itself and the space it takes up, it’s like accidentally punching yourself in the head (which, if I’m being honest, has...
Not that long ago, a large beer manufacturer rocketed barley seeds to the International Space Station to better understand how the grain germinates in microgravity. Why? Because eventually, they want to brew beer on Mars (duh). “We are inspired by the collective American Dream to get to Mars,” said their vice...
As we’ve discussed before in our podcast about whether or not it’s possible to have sex in space, floating around in zero gravity comes with its own set of problems. Even mundane chores like brushing your teeth become troublesome, but the one that interested us the most—naturally—is...
Got stuck? No problem. Here are the answers to this month’s puzzles: ROMPECABEZA UNO: 1. Orchid 2. Lichen 3. Stocky 4. Grocer 5. Evolve 6. Violet 7. Snatch 8. Crater 9. Seesaw 10. Muesli Mystery Keyword: Chocolates ROMPECABEZA DOS:
Pubes are decidedly unfashionable right now, with more and more dudes choosing to shave them all off. But should they be doing that? Here’s what your pubic hair is doing down there in the first place. Why It’s There (and What it Does) In addition to keeping...
Got stuck? No problem. Here are the answers to this month’s puzzles: ROMPECABEZA UNO: Shin, Want, Taxi, Knit. ROMPECABEZA DOS: R=8, S=5, T=1, U=7, V=9, W=2, X=4, Y=6, Z=3.
Ruh-roh: Research published this week reveals that city dwellers are regularly inhaling antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). What does this actually mean for you, a regular guy who breathes air? It means that your once easily-treatable infections may acquire the ability to survive antibiotic treatment—and eventually evolve into...
Try not to think about this the next time you go swimming: Pools are disgusting. You could even argue that they’re basically little more than giant, swimmable, chlorine-filled toilet bowls. According to one Canadian study, there’s an average of eight gallons of pee in a typical 110,000-gallon...
I’m somewhat ashamed to admit that my booze stash consists of a half-empty bottle of two-year-old vodka in the freezer, a random assortment of maybe three beers in the fridge and a cheap bottle of red wine that was opened at some unknown point in time on...
Got stuck? No problem. Here are the answers to this month’s puzzles: ROMPECABEZA UNO: 1. Yolks 2. Arrow 3. Crown 4. Hoist 5. Thief Mystery Keyword: Yacht ROMPECABEZA DOS:
Everyone’s heard of wanting to take home your wisdom teeth after they’ve been yanked from your mouth, but an entire leg? Earlier this month, my colleague John McDermott had many questions about a man who served his friends tacos made from the flesh of his own amputated...
