A (Not Very) Scientific Overview of 2017
Humans did some good things this year! We promise! 2018 approaches in sparkly new threads, full of fresh vigor and boundless opportunity. So let’s forget about all the regressive awfulness of 2017 —...
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The style choices of older generations aren’t just allowed now, they’re trendy Two Christmases ago, my father joined my sister and I for Christmas Day for the first time in a while. He wore black,...
View ArticleBeing A Tiger in the Sack Actually Means Being Terrible in Bed
Tigers are indisputably one of nature’s most magnificent creations, but their greatness doesn’t quite extend to the bedroom I first came across this phrase when passing through Amsterdam one night when...
View ArticleA Brit’s Guide to the 2018 World Cup (for Americans Who Don’t Give a Shit)
An A-Z of everything you need to know to not be hopelessly lost It feels pointless to try and convince y’all to call soccer “football,” or insist you revere the World Cup as “the World’s Greatest...
View ArticleYour Burning Questions About Summer, Answered
From brain freeze to itchy insect bites, here’s the season explained Summer is officially here tomorrow, with its usual comely disposition and clammy conundrums. Do hot drinks cool you down? Why do we...
View ArticleAll It Took for Me to Learn Empathy Was Repeated Agonizing Electric Shocks...
All It Took for Me to Learn Empathy Was Repeated Agonizing Electric Shocks From a Simulated Labor Machine Like many before me, as a father I’ve endured various assorted pains: Seemingly endless...
View ArticleWho the Fuck Is Boris Johnson, Anyway?
A Brit explains the incredibly baffling, totally catastrophic, utterly unnerving rise of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson: From principal bungler to Prime Minister of Britain It’s summer 2019, and...
View ArticleI Don’t Sleep on My Back, How Screwed Am I?
There’s a spine-bending amount of stuff that you should be doing to achieve a more successful slumber, and sleeping on your back is just one of them There are so many things we’re told we need to abide...
View ArticleThe Mathematically Perfect Cup of Espresso Has Arrived
The equation is probably not what you or any coffee-clever barista would have suspected… There aren’t many mathematically perfect things in the universe: platonic solids; Liz Hurley’s face; the numbers...
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