From ancient Roman mosaics to Silicon Valley’s boner math, people have always laughed at penises. Don’t believe anyone who says the world is crasser than ever. They might speak of a “gentler time,” extolling the values of things like “polite company” and “G-rated films” and “salads that...
Our Brains Get Fried If We Don’t Yawn Enough In an attempt to discover the purpose of yawning, researchers from the State University of New York found a link between yawn duration and density of cortical neurons—a.k.a. the things that make our brains work. In the study,...
Welcome to “I Learned A Thing In The Bathroom,” our biweekly podcast where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in just a few minutes. In this edition, we’ll be talking about why blowing up your enemy’s satellites is a really bad idea, and how a...
Welcome to I Learned A Thing In The Bathroom, our biweekly podcast where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in just a few minutes. In this edition, we’ll be looking at what happens to you if you go too long without a good nap, and...
Welcome to “I Learned A Thing In The Bathroom,” DSC Original Content’s biweekly show where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in just a few minutes. In this edition, we’ll be finding out the likelihood of whether we’re alone in the universe, and why we wouldn’t...
With football season in full swing, America’s favorite odd-shaped ball—the football—is dangling at the forefront of televised entertainment around the nation. But even in its less-than-spherical glory, the pigskin has nothing on the three strange-shaped “balls” below, which have all found their way into sports that seem...
Welcome to DSC Original Content’s biweekly podcast, where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in just a few minutes. In this edition, we’ll be finding out what it’s like at the bottom of the ocean, from its dark, high-pressure depths to extremes of cold and...
You probably don’t give much thought to your pockets beyond cramming your cellphone and wallet into them. But not only do all your pockets have their own names, some of them even have origin stories. The watch pocket—that thin slot behind the main hip pocket on your jeans—for example: Although...
Welcome to DSC Original Content’s biweekly podcast, where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in just a few minutes. In this edition, we’ll be finding out why it’s impossible to dig a hole through the center of the Earth. The answer involves temperatures hotter than...
“It’s better when it’s fresh,” Ari Nagel explained to the New York Post in June, emerging from the men’s bathroom at a Brooklyn Target looking a little flushed and quite pleased with himself. Nagel, aka “The Sperminator,” a 40-year-old CUNY Kingsborough math professor, has fathered a number...
We’re all familiar with the classic creatures that haunt our doorsteps in search of candy every Halloween, but where did they come from (besides that big costume pop-up store on the outskirts of town, that is)? Let’s find out. Vampires Vampires have haunted humanity’s dreams for at...
Welcome to DSC Original Content’s biweekly podcast, where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in just a few minutes. In this edition, we’ll be finding out why nuclear weapons are our best hope to stop a giant asteroid wiping us all out, and discovering what...