Lips are helpful for a lot of things: to eat, to kiss, to yell at your dog when he digs up your squash plant that just started flowering, etc. So, an evolutionary oversight I cannot get over is that lips don’t have any oil glands. Since these helpless little dweebs can’t moisturize themselves, it’s extra…
3 Foods That Could Be Causing Your Bout of Brain Fog, and What RDs Recommend Eating Instead
We all know the feeling. It’s 3pm (or 3am), the edges have blurred, nothing is really registering, and it would be a challenge to tell someone your name—much less answer the question your boss just levied at you. It is not a hangover, you’re not under the weather or dealing with low blood sugar, and…
5 Ways Non-Penetrative ‘Frottage’ Sex Can Supply You With All the Pleasure You Could Ever Want
The word frottage—which comes from the French word frott, which means “rub”—isn’t just fun to say; it’s fun to do, as well. Frottage “is a word used for the non-penetrative sex that happens when two or more bodies rub together,” says sex educator Searah Deysach, owner of pleasure-product company Early to Bed. “Clothes on or…
This Delicious Tomato Jam-Topped Avocado Toast Is Bursting With Anti-Inflammatory Benefits
Other “toast” trends pop up every now and then—like ricotta or sweet potato—but avocado toast is that tried-and-true standby you can always rely on. The buttery smooth avocado layered on flaky bread. The high healthy fat content that’s satiating in a way pastries just can’t deliver on… There’s a reason why it’s held on to…
Introducing the Latest Craft Drink from L.A Brewery: Tropical Ginger with Yuzu Brewed for flavour and crafted from nature
Let L.A Brewery rewild your palate this summertime. Introducing Tropical Ginger with Yuzu – an L.A Brewery take on ginger ale with a tropical twist – THE no and low alternative for summer 2021. From a sustainable non-alcoholic brewery in the heart of Suffolk, Tropical Ginger is a flavour-driven, true craft drink, made with the…
A ‘Leap’ Toward Humanity’s Destruction
This article originally appeared on Unlimited Hangout. The world’s richest medical research foundation, the Wellcome Trust, has teamed up with a pair of former DARPA directors who built Silicon Valley’s skunkworks to usher in an age of nightmarish surveillance, including for babies as young as three months old. Their agenda can only advance if we…
5 Ways To Impress a Leo Boss—And What To Definitely Avoid Doing
Ever the self-motivated force of nature, fiery Leo is a natural fit for a managerial role at work. Those born under the sign of Leo, which spans from July 23 to August 22, tend to embody both get-the-job-done tenacity and an innate generosity, which can make them not only effective managers of projects and tasks,…
Is This the Road to Totalitarianism?
People can tell themselves that they didn’t see where things have been heading for the last 17 months, but they did. They saw all the signs along the way. The signs were all written in big, bold letters, some of them in scary-looking Germanic script. They read … “THIS IS THE ROAD TO TOTALITARIANISM.” I’m…
These 7 CBD Chocolates Never Fail To Bliss Us Out Before Bed
I used to truly love a glass of red or a small pour of bourbon before bed to wind down. Sadly, once I entered my 30s, what used to seem like a magical sleep elixir suddenly became a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The nightcap helped me drift off to sleep only to wake up a…
Here’s How To Get Plan B for Cheap or Even Free
Making emergency contraception accessible to everyone is not just a matter of whether Plan B is on the shelves of your local pharmacy—it’s also about price. In the US, the morning-after pill costs anywhere from $10 to $70. The reason there is such inconsistency in its pricing across stores and locations remains a mystery. But…