10 reasons why online dating doesn't work for some people. — Autosarcophagy. We have a word for eating your limbs, but we don't have a word for eating your soul on a dating app. Too dramatic? Perhaps. But both involve a level of self-harm. Either way, I really don't like to eat my words (or my limbs), so I am making…

It’s why miss independent is forever single. — Someone recently posted a meme on a Facebook dating group that made all the ladies spit flames. The meme read; “Never go in search of love, go in search of life, and life will find you the love you ask.” Ok, first off…memes always make me vomit in my mouth…

It’s the stories we don’t tell that echo the loudest — My Uber driver pulls up to my house, and I scramble to grab my belongings and head out the door. I am dressed in a loose t-shirt and jeans, so scrambling is easy. I wouldn’t usually mention what I am wearing, but when any woman tells one of these stories…

The surgery was barbaric. It also created the most beautiful singers in history. — When Franz Joseph Haydn was eight, he was sent to Vienna to sing in St Stephens’ chorus. St Stephens was the glee club of its day. You had to have some serious pipes to make it into their chorus. Singers sang for the most revered nobility, including Empress Maria Theresa. …

This article might get me excommunicated from the Catholic Church — In 1983, the sleepy town of Calcata, Italy, celebrated its annual Holy Circumcision Day. Every year, the residents would trot out its most famous holy relic — Jesus' foreskin. But that year, Fr. Dario Magnoni made a sad declaration to the eager revelers. …

Or are we too high on chicken NyQuil to answer this question? — Humanity has made bold strides by daring greatly. Our courageous ingenuity allowed us to walk on the moon, blow things up, tame viruses, and communicate worldwide in seconds. But like any naughty Prometheus, our stolen fire has also sucked the oxygen out of common sense. …

Let’s pour a different kind of tea. — Fear. It keeps us up at night and pumps enough cortisol into our bodies to raise our blood pressure. But humans are born with only two innate fears. Do you know what they are? You wouldn’t be too far off if you guessed icy winters in New England with fisher…

Losing the spines and bone was an improvement. Prove me wrong. — Have you ever wondered why gorillas have such minuscule penises (3cm/1.25 in.) and large testicles while humans have larger penises (13.12cm/5.16 in.) and small testicles? Even our closest human relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, have small penises — 8cm or 3.14 in. Some anthropologists have theorized that our early ancestors adapted…

It’s survival of the sexually fittest —