Mistook your monthly magazine for a pack of One Wipe Charlies and flushed it down the toilet? No worries, here’s the online version! In this edition: An Acting Coach’s Guide to ‘Fake It Till You Make It’ How Do I, Um, Like, Become a Better, Uh, Public...
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If hot fried chicken were a mere seedling, cold fried chicken would be a mighty redwood. To deny that something special happens when a piece of frizzled poultry spends the night in a refrigerator is a brazen denial of the universe and its laws. Compared to hot fried chicken, cold fried chicken...
You are here because one little sperm beat out the rest on its journey to the egg. In order to do so, that sperm had to be the best of the bunch, faster and more agile than its brethren. What scientists have recently learned, though, is that those sperm who qualify...
Being an adult is freaking great: You can eat all the junk food you want, sleep ‘til noon and play outside any time you want. But being all grown up also means you gotta pay attention to your health. So, of all that outside playing, what’s actually...
We know that long afternoons at the beach make you sleepy — this is in large part due to the sun suppressing your melatonin production, which helps control your daily wake-sleep cycle (also, those eight room-temperature beers you pounded might have something to do with it). It often, too,...
Ah, dining out — what a luxury! You go down the menu and somewhere in between the burger and the tomahawk steak, the prices have steadily increased. But the wine list: That’s a whole other story! Why do bottles of wine cost way more than the food? Also: Why...
I quite honestly don’t remember the last time I unplugged my phone charger. I keep it right next to my side of the bed, ready to support my hours of doom-scrolling before my brain gives me permission to sleep. I’m lucky that I don’t have to pay much...
It’s pretty funny to think about how, a month ago, we were acting like it was only a matter of time until we were all back in the gym. Yeah, there would be some restrictions — social distancing, masks, staggered entry to reduce crowding — but it sure seemed...
My sense of smell is probably the sense I think about the least. Seeing, hearing and touching all feel most essential to my lived experience, and I’m constantly bound to the whims of my tastebuds. But smelling always seems passive. It’s something that’s happening to me, not something I’m actively...
At its core, anxiety is psychological. But in our day-to-day lives, much of our experience with anxiety is physical. It can be less of an emotion than an overall bodily feeling of tension or unease, marked by symptoms like a racing heart or shaky hands. It’s not...
We all do it. It’s the tried-and-true method for any man with anything less than a perfectly chiseled body and even an ounce of shame. For me, it’s my natural go-to any time I appear without a shirt in public — and also when I appear with...
