Have you ever sat at a soft play, watching children and thinking ‘those lucky tw*ts’?
No. Us neither, because that would be weird. But you have to admit, there is something pretty fun looking about a ball pit.
Sadly, like Disney films and onesies, ball bits aren’t usually aimed at… Read the full story
Fancy starting your workday with a nice Jack Daniel’s? Well, now you can. In the form of coffee.
Non-alcoholic coffee, that is – come on people, we’re not animals here.
The whiskey brand have recently announced their partnership with World of Coffee Inc., and to celebrate, they’re bringing us their very own morning brew, Tennessee Whiskey Coffee.
New York City’s Midtown is so much more than the tourist jams, the shopping and the dizzying lights of Times Square. This place can, and will, surprise you.
Hear the word ‘Midtown’ and you’ll most likely imagine yourself straining your neck upward to take a photo of the looming Rockefeller Center, salty street-cart pretzel in hand.
You’ll imagine… Read the full story
New York City’s Midtown is so much more than the tourist jams, the shopping and the dizzying lights of Times Square. This place can, and will, surprise you.
Hear the word ‘Midtown’ and you’ll most likely imagine yourself straining your neck upward to take a photo of the looming Rockefeller Center, salty street-cart pretzel in hand.
You’ll imagine tourists, Broadway ticket touts, the Times Square Naked Cowboy, and more tourists.
What you probably won’t imagine is the smell… Read the full story
Tampons are brilliant for many reasons.
They’re easy to use. They let you get on with your day without worrying too much about period leakage. They’re easy to use.
But there’s one way that they’re absolutely rubbish: their environmental impact.
Every year, billions of discarded tampons end up in landfills, taking centuries to degrade.
It’s one of those niggling worries we remember and feel terrible about… Read the full story
It’s rumoured to have been the favourite tipple of David Bowie and Humphrey Bogart.
And ordering your martini shaken not stirred is immediately evocative of James Bond.
But there’s actually a lot more to a martini than a straight up serve – for instance whether you like yours… Read the full story
I really don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say coffee is life.
I really hate that expression. It’s on a par with people misusing the word literally, but in this case I believe it is warranted.
In the morning, in the afternoon, after dinner – give us all the coffee.
Fellow coffee drinkers can join me in rejoicing today, as it turns out there is scientific proof that the beverage can help extend your life.
This week a study has been released investigating why coffee drinkers tend to live longer than their abstaining counterparts, an association that proved an ongoing puzzle for scientific and medical minds.
The findings prove that there is still some goodness in this messed up world of ours, because there could actually be a link between consuming caffeine and… Read the full story
If you were harrowed by the avocado shortage of 2016, then hold on to your hats.
‘Clean’ eating favourite the courgette is experiencing a UK wide shortage.
It’s a distressing reality. What will lithe limbed hipsters spiralize in lieu of pasta? What will you shave into an Ottolenghi salad?
Please. Try to stay calm.
Before you pick up your torches and pitch forks and march on East London to take back the last courgettes from the greedy hipsters who’ve depleted national supplies, take a deep breath.
So how did this travesty arise?… Read the full story
Look, we all like to tell ourselves that we thrive on a little work-related stress. That we’re go-getters, and secretly enjoy spreadsheets and meetings and giving presentations.
Because we’re adults. And that’s what we do.
But really, we’d quite like it if we could get paid to do the stuff we did when we were toddlers: napping, eating, and playing.
Finally, the good people of… Read the full story
School life was plagued by pointless homework assignments.
Every subject was keen on setting stuff which had little relevance to what was being taught in class, let alone to real life.
I was once set a project to mummify a fish because, Egyptians. I still have it in my room in the clay sarcophagus I made for it.
But one school in America (where else) has decided to separate from tradition by setting really useful life tasks for homework.
Including making pupils take each other on dates.
Highland High School in Utah issued kids with instructions for going on a $5 date. Pupils had to go out with… Read the full story
Greenland may not be at the top of your bucket list – you may not even know much about the country (except that it’s probably green) – but these facts will soon change your mind.
Tucked away near the North Pole and almost forgotten about, Greenland is probably not the first place you think of for your summer holiday.
But it has this raw natural beauty that’s found nowhere else… Read the full story
In recent times, men have been making waves in the beauty industry.
In South Korea, more and more guys are buying makeup – citing confidence, job prospects, and dating as the main reasons for wanting to look fresher and younger.
Last year, COVERGIRL named their first ever male spokesmodel and at the start of January, MUA Manny Guiterrez became the first guy to feature in a mainstream beauty campaign.
But one… Read the full story
It’s always hard to have to share bad news with readers.
But I’m afraid that today, that’s what I’m going to have to do. It turns out that celibacy might be a factor in living a longer life.
Yep. Sex, the one activity that’s fun without costing any money, might well shorten your life span. Why is the world so cruelly unfair?
Research from the University of Sheffield examined the question of why single women and people who belong to religious groups that forbid sex seem to live much longer than anyone else, and came… Read the full story
Travelling can be so frustrating.
It’s fine when you eventually get to your destination, but the process of getting there is so disruptive – particularly if you’re flying long haul. All that sitting down. All that crap plane food.
If only there was a way of tiring yourself out and getting the heart racing a bit (aside from running to the terminal) before boarding.
Well, one airport… Read the full story
How many times have you been sitting around a pub with mates talking about starting something?
A band? A magazine? Your own bar? Getting hired to play with Lego?
What about a political campaign?
That’s exactly what happened to Bethan Harris and a group of her amazing friends, who got sick of being all… Read the full story
Junk food is delicious – there’s no denying that. Sometimes you just need a Krispy Kreme or family bag of Doritos to keep body and soul together.
And there’s nothing wrong with that.
A life entirely without junk food would be a miserable slog, ending in a funeral and wake which no one would stay at because there’d be no good food on offer.
But there is a lot to be said for… Read the full story
The first time I experienced sleep paralysis, I was eight years old. An eight-year-old who woke from sleep and couldn’t move, couldn’t speak and couldn’t shout for help.
These terrifying wake ups, a fear of being trapped, along with finger chewing (also known as dermatophagia) and nail biting, were just some of the behaviors caused by what I now understand to be anxiety.
When I was growing up, mental illness was still taboo – an unspoken subject. It was seen as a sign… Read the full story
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