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Surprise, Working From Bed Is Actually Super Bad for You Kayla Kibbe, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail “I write this sitting in the kitchen sink,” is the very good opening line of Dodie Smith’s 1948 novel, I Capture the Castle, which I bring up only because I do not write this sitting in the kitchen sink, but rather sitting in my bed, where I have completed the vast majority of my writing for the past year. This, as it happens, is probably disastrous for my own mental and physical wellb...

Your Home Gym Could Use a TRX Suspension Trainer, Now on Sale Alex Lauer, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Back in August when we asked 10 trainers what their desert island fitness gear of choice would be, we pretty much knew before we asked the question that someone would say TRX. The suspension training system is easy to set up, can be used as the basis for countless exercises (unlike your normal set of weights) and is low impact when you’re trying to build up any areas where you feel weak...

Netflix Made a Documentary About Pole Dancing and Forgot to Talk to Strippers Kayla Kibbe, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The documentary, Strip Down, Rise Up, explores the world of pole dancing beyond strip clubs, following both newcomers and long-time pole dancers who engage with the practice as a hobby or sport, rather than as professional strippers. The film focuses largely on a group of women who signed up for S Factor, a studio class created by Sheila Kelley and designed to harness t...

One of the most dramatic shark scenes in Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws' almost led to a shark attack in real life.

Martin Scorseses Right: Big Tech Is Killing Cinema Mark Asch, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail about Federico Fellini. Fellini, he writes, “was the cinema’s virtuoso,” in whose films sound and image “play off and enhance one another in such a way that the entire cinematic experience moves like music, or like a great unfurling scroll.” But that’s not why you’re reading this, is it? Scorsese can get lots of people Very Mad Online by making simple factual statements about what the c...

Slide Boards Are the Most Underrated Home Workout Apparatus Weve Tried Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Lately, I’ve wondered if 2021 is conspiring against our best efforts to stay in shape. Gyms are shuttered, or operating at limited capacity, with no end date in sight. High-profile home fitness machines have warned of delays on deliveries until summer. And now, more snow than the country has seen in five years has hamstrung running and other outdoor exercise routines. It’...

A Healthier Heart Starts With at Least One Walk a Day Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail PLOS Medicine, even the lightest increase in physical activity each day could offer massive rewards for your heart health. A team of researchers at the University of Oxford accessed biometric information from more than 90,000 men and women who had worn fitness trackers for the UK Biobank (a database that holds health and lifestyle details for half a million Brits), and analyzed how their dail...

How On-Set "Intimacy Coordinators" Are Helping to Fix a Broken Entertainment Industry Danny Agnew, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail How Intimacy Coordinators Are Helping to Fix a Broken Entertainment Industry Ita O’Brien is at the forefront of a new era of communication, boundaries and consent in film and television production As a society, we’re in the midst of a redefinition of what it means to be “smart.” The dehumanizing effects of relentless algorithmic optimization and data-drive...

How People in the Drinks Industry Maintain Their Mental Health Kirk Miller, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail “How do you handle working through a pandemic on $2.17 an hour, plus the generosity of others?” That’s a question Elijah Finn had throughout 2020. Last year the 24-year-old bar manager at Courthaus Social in Arlington, VA, went from the daily stresses of working in the hospitality industry to the added pressures and financial hardships of not working, as well as navigating the ne...

Why Does Every Cartoon Villain Need a Gritty "Joker"-Style Origin Story? Bonnie Stiernberg, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Cruella, its live-action 101 Dalmatians prequel, and it’s a little hard to believe it’s a real movie and not a Saturday Night Live sketch. (Seriously, why would anyone attempt to make another gritty cartoon villain origin story after the show completely eviscerated the genre with Cruella features Emma Stone as the titular puppy-hunting villainess in 1970s London, ...