Spring cleaning typically means throwing away everything ‘cept the kitchen sink—all of which we covered in April’s Bathroom Minutes magazine. But it doesn’t have to. Some of your junk, like the nine items below, doesn’t belong in a landfill. For a few reasons… 1) They can be...
Remarking that “spring is in the air” might be cliché, but it’s also true. Not in figurative sense—in fact, much more literally. Like the four harbingers of spring below. Moisture. In spring, the sun’s rays hit the earth like Ali hit Foreman in’74—directly, and with intensity. The...
We asked Alex Wang, surfer, DSC member and founder of Carapace Wetsuits, to give us his tried-and-true method for slathering up those hard-to-reach areas.
It’s been a month since the most famous of all balls dropped—The Times Square Ball. But balls, well, they’re always dropping. And unlike New Year’s Eve—where, you know, a literal giant orb drops from the tip of Times Tower as the seconds count down to the new...
Let’s face it: This whole Christmas tree tradition is pretty strange. Each year we chop down pine and fir trees by the millions, bring them into our homes, hang tinsel and glass balls and then surround them with gifts. Worse yet, even the most devout holiday enthusiasts...
Columbus, imma let you finish, but the first guy to figure out how to shave his face made a pretty amazing discovery, too. In fact, innovations in hygiene are some of the most important discoveries, well, ever—just imagine a world without teeth brushing, body scrubbing and nail...
Oktoberfest might have ended last weekend, but if you thought the chance to drink your weight in Bitburger is over, think again. These days, with everything from lagers to lambics widely available at most stores, enjoying a cold one from breweries all around the globe has never...
Blood, it’s not just for vampires. Because of blood’s many nutrients and its rampant availability—i.e., it flows through the veins of every living being—plenty of other creatures, like the ones featured in our October Halloween Spooktacular edition of the Bathroom Minutes magazine, feast on it, too. But...
“What is love?” No other question has inspired more poets to write, singers to sing and car windows to be broken by Chris Kattan. Thanks to Rutgers University anthropologist and renowned romance researcher Helen Fisher, though, we have an answer: “Love,” it turns out, can be broken...
George R. R. Martin once wrote, “Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese, and I’m a happy man.” And ol’ George wouldn’t be alone in thinking that cheese is happiness. Whether it’s baked, broiled or fried, the vast majority of the cheese we...
For city dwellers, it often can seem that the best way to escape the summer heat is to hit the road. And, according to Climate Central, an organization of scientists studying climate change, they’d be right. The phenomenon known as the “urban heat island effect” is the...
Getting enough sleep is no easy feat. Balancing work, play and the 11 p.m. bark-a-thon next door can make it downright impossible to get your recommended eight hours. Which is a real shame, because sleep happens to be a miracle drug: It can keep your weight in...
