“What, did you sleep in your clothes again last night?” Marty McFly’s older brother asks him when Marty wakes in the new-and-improved 1985 at the end of Back to the Future. It’s clear from his brother’s inflection that this isn’t an acceptable behavior, but conventional wisdom — and scorn from...
It’s well understood that couples face any number of battlegrounds upon shacking up to supply the abode with goods and victuals. Among the most notorious is shopping at one popular Swedish furniture store, where psychologists have deemed the place a literal “map of a relationship nightmare,” where...
Every so often, for seemingly no apparent reason, men are met with one of the great pleasures of owning a penis: The opportunity to pee into a urinal filled with ice. It’s a unique satisfaction — bestial, even — to mark one’s territory in a dive bar...
The Irish goodbye, the shamrock shuffle, ghosting (in the sense of leaving a party without saying bye; not cutting off someone you’re dating), or what I like to call the secret bail, is nothing new. Essays have abounded on the internet for the last few years both...
Recently, a cable news host claimed he hadn’t washed his hands in 10 years. He can’t see the germs, he said, “therefore they’re not real.” He continued that he believes the practice bolsters his immune system and prevents him from getting diseases. I had a sixth-grade teacher...
A few weeks back, over the Super Bowl weekend, I declared that soup (and an omelette) is the best hangover cure. “The soup provides fluids and sodium that help combat the hangover-inducing dehydration often caused by drinking 20 grief beers after your team loses the Super Bowl,”...
Cut and color your hair however you want; wear what you want to wear; get eyelash extensions, or don’t; eat what you want to eat: These are my general responses when having a conversation with my significant other about her body. Obviously, some of these typical couple...
Think of the children, and think of their smol teeth! More than 38 percent of youngsters between ages three and six are using too much toothpaste, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and their chompers are in grave danger as a result. The...
Throughout my gym-going life, I’ve been dogged by questions about how much I can bench. Even in high school and college, when athletics and functional strength were my highest priorities, I was notable to others primarily because of the weight I could move on the bench press....
Southern Living recently published an article that claims the occasional trip with friends is good for your health, and as expected — because we all want another excuse to spend more time with our buddies — the article has since inspired many local media outlets to run...
Sometime in 2016, just as opioid use in the U.S. was reaching epidemic proportions and adult obesity rates were hitting 40 percent, the population was being woken up to yet another surging health crisis. “Tech neck” was being diagnosed among more and more people whose default head...
Rice is quite possibly the most important food in the world — according to Ricepedia, the online rice authority, more than 3.5 billion people (i.e., half the planet) rely on these miniature grains for more than 20 percent of their daily calories. That’s mainly because, unlike many...
