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...
Among the downsides of being someone within a perfectly average height range for humans is that nearly everyone else’s face and mouth is always so close to mine, particularly when we’re pointing our faces and mouths at each other. This is arguably a good thing in “normal”...
For some reason, it seems I’ve established myself as a go-to writer for all things about needing to pee a lot. I pee about once an hour during the waking day, once a night and as soon as I wake up in the morning, just to set the...
Parents the world over warn us that eating before executing an epic belly flop into the pool results in debilitating cramps that impede our ability to stay afloat. When we do indulge in some poolside grub, they demand we wait at least 30 minutes before diving into...
Ah, summertime — the time of year for barbecues, lemonade and changing my T-shirt four freaking times a day because I keep sweating through them like a disgusting beast. I can’t help it, I’m a sweaty dude, but recently I got to thinking: Body hair keeps people warm,...
Many powerful people are known for sleeping only four to five hours a night. The assumption is that getting by on just a few hours of sleep gives them a competitive edge. Now, several of these powerful people probably lied about how little sleep they need simply because...
It’s not uncommon to wake up and almost immediately do a big, window-rattling fart. A properly loud, blanket-lifting, room-filling fart, the kind that the neighbors can hear — one of those that changes the temperature of the room. The sort of fart you could knock ornaments off...
As well as being something you definitely wouldn’t want to live without, sweat is composed of five separate ingredients that we’ve broken down in the exact order they appear on the International Hyperhidrosis Society website. Oh, and one other thing: You’ll notice that “toxins” are nowhere on...
Behind maybe pizza, and the cheeseburger, and possibly fried chicken, no foodstuff is as universally beloved by humanity as pasta. Those luscious strands of flour, water and egg, that hearty sauce of (insert your favorite sauce here) — there’s a reason why many kids in America dine...
Let’s say you burnt off all the skin on your arm. You’re not exactly going to get all that skin back, but you’re not just going to have a festering barbeque for a limb forever, either. To a certain extent, smoking cigs is just repeatedly burning the lining...
As the epithet suggests, flavor savers — commonly known as soul patches — have a unique capacity for saving flavors. This could be a good thing: Want another taste of that chili dog you had for lunch? Just tongue-punch your flavor saver, bro! This could also be...