We told you recently that light smoking — smoking fewer than 10 cigarettes a day — increases overall mortality by 87 percent. Smoking even half a cigarette a day still increases overall mortality by 67 percent. If you were holding out hope that someone would eventually produce a single solitary health...
“Once you take on a task, never let it go, even if you are killed.” So begins a 1951 employee handbook at Dentsu, Japan’s largest ad agency, written by its then-president Hideo Yoshida. Sixty-four years later, Matsuri Takahashi, a 24-year-old graduate recruit at Dentsu, leapt from her...
The millenial man: He dates while living at home. His mom buys his clothes. He yearns for chin implants. He doesn’t like boobs. And in continued defiance of traditional masculine expectations, he’s also — according to new research from the Institute for Family Studies — less likely to cheat. That’s right:...
There are two ways to wake up from a nap: refreshed, invigorated and raring to go, or like a reanimated corpse who isn’t sure what century it is. The latter is called sleep inertia, that temporary period of grogginess, disorientation, drowsiness, sleepiness, reduced alertness and impaired performance...
When it comes to packing, there’s the internet expert’s standard — which includes folding some clothes, rolling others and placing the most wrinkle-prone garments closest to the top of the bag — and then there’s my father’s standard, which is militant, measured and masterful. First, though, a bit of background on...
Twitter user @horchatata had her 15 seconds of internet fame earlier this week when she tweeted a screenshot of this excellent Reddit thread from Sunday: In short, a woman discovers her boyfriend of five years sleeping in bed with another woman, and rather than wake and confront...
Bad news first: Turns out we are all, each of us, in some way or another, totally alone. Not just in the existential sense that death is unfortunately a single-seat ticket to the terrifyingly unknown next level, but it’s now understood that standard-issue loneliness for living, breathing...
Dating is impossibly difficult. Living under your parents’ roof past age 18 is even more difficult. Put the two together and you come away with an awkwardness cocktail that smacks of basement must and secondhand embarrassment. In 2016, a Pew Research Center analysis found that living at...
“Personal finance.” You know you should be doing it, but if your eyes glaze over when you hear those words, you’re not alone. The sheer number of investment options, the risk involved, the alphabet soup of terminology and the smarmy veneer of stereotypical “wealth managers” — the people who...
Welcome to DSC Original Content’s weekly podcast, where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in mere minutes. In this edition, learn why you’ll feel terrible when you give up carbs; find out why you should stop trying to give up fat this year; and discover...
Listen closely while you’re reading the words on this page. Are you hearing each one in your head as you go, as if you’re tuning in to a podcast inside your head? If so, is it being presented in your own voice? What if I told you...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....