For soft-handed laptop jockeys like myself, merely existing in the sun with a T-shirt on can result in an intense farmer’s tan. This would be fine, but when you have to go into work — or wear anything else that fits differently in public — people will inevitably make fun of you...
For some people, a trip to the beach ruins their hair for the rest of the day: Somehow, your hair both super dry and sticky; and your scalp is also caked in sand (and that sand doesn’t go away — it’s seemingly there forever now). On the other hand,...
Sunburns are the absolute worst, both in the immediate “this sucks” sense, and in the more long term, “Oh great, now I have cancer” sense. Beyond that, most of us treat sunburns like we do any other ailment — complain about it, treat it and move on. But what...
Despite evolving to leave the sea and never need to go back, we humans return to it with alarming regularity. This is despite the very obvious and constant reminders as to why we left in the first place: The sea sucks — from luminescent poison jelly to swimming bears...
Summer, it seems, is the season for all the things that can potentially kill you. The sun? That gives you cancer. Lounging around? That gives you cancer. And that other staple of summer, grill-charred meat? Yeah, that’ll give you cancer, too. “Charring,” according to Alex Roher, M.D.,...
The road trip seems like the simplest vacation ever: All you need is a road and a set of wheels, right? While those two things are certainly important, when it comes to driving long distances, there’s probably still a bit you can learn from the people who...
A lot of people believe this old wives’ remedy, so first, it’s important to know where this pee-theory began. According to Science News, the legend of pee sterility began in the 1950s, when epidemiologist Edward Kass was trying to figure out a way to screen patients with...
While “how to escape from quicksand” might sound like something that only applies to Indiana Jones, the stuff is actually more common than you might think. It’s true: Just because you don’t think you pass a quicksand pit on your way to work doesn’t mean that it’s...
Once upon a time you were in shape. It was a glorious time, a time when you could saunter to the gym whenever you liked and closely monitor the stuff you put in your body. But since that first kid came into your life, things have never...
For some of us, it’s hard enough to fit our awkward shapes or oversized bodies into everyday attire, let alone swimwear. And while the goal is to just enjoy the sun and have a good time, it’s hard not to feel like a vast pile of crap-flavored...
Sure, you’d like to have a six-pack. Who wouldn’t? But let’s be honest for a moment — it’s not gonna happen any time soon. To make those tummy muscles visible, you have to have, at most, seven percent body fat, and doing that is somewhat tricky when your idea...
When you have a cold, you know the drill: Your nose runs, your head hurts, maybe some nausea. But what if something more than a simple cold virus got into your system — say, the demon Naberius, triple-dog-headed Marquess of Hell, commander of 19 legions and master of rhetoric:...
