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....
For the first time in American history, tattoos are trending toward mainstream status among younger generations: Nearly half of millennials (47 percent) and over a third of Gen-Xers (36 percent) claim to have at least one tattoo. What’s more, few Americans stop at one: Among those with...
For seven years, Tim Roscoe worked as a fund-raiser for the University of Virginia, taking upwards of 20 flights per month to solicit donations from alumni all across the country and world. During that period, he was asked to change seats with a fellow passenger on just...
There’s a lot happening in today’s world that makes it hard to get out of bed — and we’re not talking about binge-watching TV shows or discounted Egyptian cotton. The modern experience is just… well, rough. How, then, can you see the world through more rose-tinted glasses? How, if one were...
Americans are supposedly traveling more than ever before. But you’d never be able to tell based on how much we complain about never being able to get away. Blame it on the wanderlust inspired by Instagram, the FOMO inspired by Facebook or just the drudgery of life:...