By Tanner Garrity Either cocktail napkins are an unlikely candidate for “survivorship bias” — they’ve reportedly given us Harry Potter, Pixar, Shark Week, the Super Bowl trophy and the first model of Chicago’s grid — or there really is some magic to sc…
Sage Steele Sues ESPN After Benching for Comments About “Sick” Vaccine Mandate and Obama’s Race
By Evan Bleier ESPN anchor Sage Steele is suing the Worldwide Leader in sports news for allegedly violating her First Amendment rights to free speech and unlawfully retaliating by forcing her to apologize for remarks she made on a podcast about the COV…
Fictosexuality Is Now a Thing: Real People Are Falling in Love With Fictional Characters
By Kayla Kibbe Love is love, as they say, and these days that adage applies to an increasing number of relationships between nontraditional — or in some cases nonexistent — partners. Some people have elected to make their self-love official by marrying…
Why Victims of Ageism Live Shorter, Less Fulfilling Lives
By Tanner Garrity There’s a movie that came out seven years ago called The Intern, in which Robert De Niro plays Ben Whittaker, a 70-year-old widower looking to get back out into the world. He secures a “senior intern” position at Jules Ostin’s (Anne H…
What Happened to All the Limos?
By Cam Vigliotta On a recent evening in New York City, I stepped out of our midtown office to find myself wading through a stream of stimulation. Businessmen in tailored suits hurried to the subway while tourists posed for pictures amid glowing billboa…
How to Eat Your Way Out of a Potential Dementia Diagnosis
By Tanner Garrity Historically, men’s magazines haven’t given cognitive health the attention that it deserves. “DEFEAT DEMENTIA IN 60 YEARS” doesn’t have quite the same ring as “BUILD ABS IN SIX WEEKS.” But the rate of Alzheimer’s is rising rapidly in …
Facebook Apparently Doesn’t Know What It’s Doing With Your Personal Data
By Kirk Miller We’ve been tracking what Facebook has been doing with all the personal data it’s been harvesting for a few years now. But instead of looking at the social media giant as something evil, perhaps we need to reassess: They aren’t even sure …
Ja Morant Is the New Jumpman Logo
By Evan Bleier Whether Ja Morant got down last week on 4/20 or not, the 22-year-old NBA phenom unquestionably knows how to get high. In the waning moments of the third quarter of Tuesday night’s game against the Timberwolves, the 6-foot-3 Grizzlies gua…
Review: The SodaStream Art Is the Best Sparkling Water Machine
By Kirk Miller Making sparkling water at home isn’t the sexiest idea in the world — sure, it’s good for the planet, but outside of the occasional use for cocktails, I found most of the carbonation devices rather bulky or clumsy to use. The SodaStream A…
Life Lessons From the Second-Oldest Human Being to Ever Live
By Tanner Garrity Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman who shared a birth year with the likes of George Orwell, Lou Gehrig and Bing Crosby, passed away last week at the age of 119, as CNN reported. According to longevity researchers she was the second-oldest …