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What You, A Man, Should Know About UTIs Kayla Kibbe, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail If you were a woman and you were even somewhat susceptible to urinary tract infections (UTIs) — which, thanks to some pretty glaring design flaws in female anatomy, you probably would be — there’s a good chance you’d spend a decent portion of almost every sexual encounter thinking about UTIs and how to prevent them. Why? Because UTIs are extremely common in women, and having sex is one of the easiest ...

Award Shows Have an Opportunity to Be Historic This Year. Why Wont They Take It? Bonnie Stiernberg, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail This could have been the weirdest, best awards season of all time. With many of the usual blockbusters and award-show contenders postponed until it’s safe for audiences to return to movie theaters in droves, this was supposed to be the year that groups like the Hollywood Foreign Press and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences threw up their hands and ...

The 15 Best Films We Saw at Sundance Eliott Grover, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The 2020 Sundance Film Festival was one of the last major events of its kind –– or any kind –– to take place before the world changed forever. With little time to prepare a viable pivot, other festivals like SXSW and Cannes were forced to cancel. As the pandemic raged through the summer and into the fall, Sundance organizers understood that they would have to radically reimagine their event in order to...

Aside From COVID-19, Has Anyone Else Not Been Sick for a Year? Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In the last few days, people on Twitter are reporting that they haven’t been sick for nearly a year. They aren’t referring to the current pandemic, but everything else. The flu. The common cold. The search term “haven’t been sick” is picking up steam as the world realizes the phenomenon isn’t just personal, or anecdotal — I legitimately can’t remember the last time I ...

Should Listening to Music During Exercise Be Considered a PED? Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Fran Lebowitz takes issue with many, many things in her new Netflix show, the Martin Scorsese-directed Pretend It’s a City. She doesn’t like subway art. People who stop in the middle of the sidewalk. Going outside. Still, there’s one blissful moment of praise, in the second episode, where Leibowitz confesses her love for Motown music. She says: “[It] was very popular when I ...

Skip to main content Is It Possible to Tell If Your Kids a Good Athlete Before the Age of 15? Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail European Journal of Sport Science, athletic metrics before the age of 15 have virtually zero predictive value for future success, as reported by A team of researchers at Belgium’s Ghent University pored over records from youth cycling championships across the country, specifically focusing on the under-15, under-17 and under-19 age groups. Crucially,...

The Cold-Weather Running Gear We Turn to Every Single Day Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Last week, a Strava follower commented on one of my runs, asking me why I’d increased my mileage as of late. I replied that I’m just trying to spend more time outside of the house this winter. Running’s been my respite of choice from quarantine. No matter how pitiful the weather is, I like to get out for at least 20 minutes a day. Lately, I’ve been out and about for over an hour. ...

Hal Holbrooks Greatest Acting Accomplishment Will Never Be Equaled Kirk Miller, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The Cleveland, OH native won five Emmys over his illustrious career and garnered an Oscar nomination at the age of 82 for his work in Into the Wild. His best-known portrayal, however, came from his six decades of work as Mark Twain, first as a part of ensemble in the late 1940s, then as a solo theater performance in 1950s, and later (remaining as a one-man show) playing to Broadway...

Feast Your Eyes on the 50th Anniversary "Jaws" Watch, Gold and All Alex Lauer, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Don’t worry, we’ve still got a couple years until the 50th anniversary of Jaws, so those of you who remember seeing the movie in theaters while hiding behind a bag of popcorn don’t have to feel old just yet. But it does happen to be the golden anniversary of the watch that made a star turn on the wrist of Richard Dreyfuss: the Nautoscaph Superautomatic. To celebrate the milest...

Since the Museum of the Bible opened in 2017, it’s found itself in a relatively unique...