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Why Does Jack Dorsey Drink a Glass of Salt Every Morning? Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail On those days where I actually live up to the “healthy routine” I keep in the Notes section of my iPhone, I take in a list of liquids that could rival a cocktail menu. The regimen includes a pea protein shake, a cup of beet juice, a greens smoothie with spinach and wheatgrass, and a mug of valerian-infused tea. Each drink has a purpose; they’re meant to aid in recovery, offer energy...

How Gross Is It If You Dont Shower After Sex? Kayla Kibbe, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Sometimes after I have sex with someone, that person will take a shower. Sometimes that person will even ask if I also want to take a shower, and all I can think about is how much I absolutely do not want to do that at all. It’s not that I’m generally opposed to showering — I like to think of myself as someone who upholds a normal standard of basic hygiene — but for whatever reason, hopping in t...

The Next Great Japanese Whisky Is Here, And Its Affordable Kirk Miller, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Where it’s from: Mars crafts most of its whiskey in the Nagano Alps, making it Japan’s highest-elevation distillery. But they have another distillery along the humid coast in the south. As well, they also age some of their hooch in a building on a Natural Heritage Site in a subtropical jungle. The three expressions we tried from Mars Whisky High Road Spirits Why we’re drinking this: ...

All the Most Pressing Questions About Male Waxing, Answered Logan Mahan, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail With the infamous 40-Year-Old Virginscene forever seared into your brain, you may have a predisposition against paying someone to rip the hair out of your body with hot wax. But waxing is an incredibly effective cosmetic procedure with loads of aesthetic, time-saving and even sexual benefits. And it’s no longer a grooming option reserved for women, bodybuilders and male models, either: ...

Toward the end of Jaws, Richard Dreyfuss’ Matt Hooper descends into the water in a shark cage in an ill-fated attempt to kill the big nasty fish by stabbing it with a poisoned spear. In a movie filled with terrifying underwater imagery, this sequence stands out for the sheer dread that accompanies the great white emerging from the water’s darkness to bite the hell out of the cage. As it turns out, the real-life shark footage used for the scene was the result of a similarly frightening acci...

What It Was Like to Film the Shark Sequences for "Jaws" Charles Thorp, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Valerie Taylor is one of the first to capture great white sharks on film and dive with them without a cage. Along with her husband Ron, she was involved with the world’s first documentaries on great whites, and was called upon by Steven Spielberg to capture the shark footage seen in the 1975 blockbuster Jaws. These days, Taylor is trying to secure protections for great whites and the rest...

Should We Expect Any Major Marathons to Happen This Year? Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail A week ago, the New York City Marathon posted a surprisingly optimistic message to Instagram. The organization confirmed that it’s planning on hosting the largest marathon in the world the first Sunday of this November, same as always. Alongside the announcement arrived a fancy golden logo — commemorating 50 years of the famous race — and a lengthy list of FAQs, meant to address con...

Are People Falling in Love With Their Peloton Instructors? Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Last March, just a couple weeks into the pandemic, The Atlanticpublished a piece titled “There Are No New Friends in a Pandemic.” We were quarantine infants at that point, still marveling at days without commutes, still learning a new kind of glossary: R number, remote learning, PPE. A year later, we’re not fully through it, but we’ve all found ways to keep going — mainly by l...

Our Favorite Bluetooth Running Headphones Are $30 Off Today Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail One of our favorite pairs of sport earbuds, Jaybird’s Vista Earthproofs, are currently $30 off. That “Earthproof” tag came from Jaybird basically trying to destroy these headphones during R&D. They’ve been tested against “tropical humidity, hurricane-force water, and desert sandstorm conditions,” and lived to tell the tale. But they’ll work just as well on your daily run ...

The Future of Hollywood Belongs to Lakeith Stanfield Charles Bramesco, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Film critics like to take pride in clairvoyance. The ability to watch an unknown actor in a breakout performance and instantly call a lifetime of fame and success — like Babe Ruth pointing his bat past the outfield in self-assured prophecy — is the easiest way to prove that we know a star when we see one. In recent weeks, I’ve spoken with a handful of peers who also remember playing Ti...