I nearly had a panic attack on Sunday when, moments before my first-ever cycling class, I noticed the gym rules painted prominently on the wall. I immediately knew I would violate rule number 3, “laundry,” which states: “We ride close together so we can feel each other’s energy....
Hey millennial man, your sperm has a message for you: You’re not getting any younger, bud, so don’t let me wither away in these soon-to-be old, crusty testes for too long. It’s true: In 2014, a study of 2.6 million children from the Department of Psychological and...
The boxers vs. briefs debate has raged on for decades. The long-and-short of it: If you want to have children, the answer is boxers; if you want to keep a partner around to sire children with, the answer is boxer briefs. But what if we just ditched...
Unlike the bodies it inhabits, testosterone is a complicated hormone. Men with too much turn into psychopaths, and men with too little are willing to risk the health of their testicles for just a little more. To further complicate testosterone-y things, researchers at the University of Florida have discovered...
When it comes to playing darts, I’m no pro. But when it comes to playing darts after a couple drinks, I’m Bullseye: After I’ve had my second glass of whiskey, I become one with the dart, and together we cut through the air, uninhibited, on our journey...
Cleaning the bathroom too often may sound absurd considering the filthy stuff that happens in there (and the resulting gobs of germs). But a recent study published by the European Lung Foundation warns that regular exposure to common toilet-bowl disinfectants like bleach and hydrogen peroxide increases your...
Whenever I catch a whiff of chlorine, I’m reminded of the frigid early mornings and tiring late nights that I spent playing water polo as a teenager. The chlorine-induced memories are so strong, in fact, that I can even feel the cold water splashing against my skin....
For most air travelers, the real concern isn’t crashing, being hijacked or, y’know, snakes — it’s the germ-ridden in-flight air supply. We’ve all sat next to someone with chronic flatulence, or with a sweaty hangover that could easily be mistaken for ebola symptoms, wondering if each of their coughs,...
The idea of “blue balls” has always struck me as more of a defeated metaphor — disappointment over a hookup that fizzled out — rather than an actual medical condition. “I find it more appropriate to relate the color with how sad the situation really is,” sighed Sam, 32, to Bustle...
Three years ago, an r/AskReddit thread posed the following question: “What’s something unconventional everyone should try out?” Among the 7,000 responses was a man with a since-deleted account who relayed the story of a camp counselor telling him about the simple pleasures of eating an orange in...
A 2016 study published in the Oxford Academic discovered that people who experience goosebumps when listening to music are more in touch with their emotions. Besides leaving us questioning our emotional capacities (and binge-listening our entire music library), this research also left us wondering: Why do we...
There are two kinds of people in this world: People who love an ice-cold beer in a piping hot shower, and people who’ve never tried it. For anyone who doesn’t know what a shower beer is or couldn’t guess, the enthusiasts at ShowerBeer.org have laid out the...
