Someone I know, not me of course, because come on, and I still want friends to want to come to my…
by Emily Caporello
A woman’s chances of developing cancer rose by 16% for every extra 10cm (4in) in height, found the study, which looked at 97,000 women with the disease between 5ft and 5ft 9in tall.
Tall women are apparently more likely to get “breast, bowel, ovarian and skin cancer…
Mazel tov! That’s wonderful. No more visitors looking through your meds.
Ways to ensure they don’t need your Klonopin in the first place?
by Claire Carusillo
Do you miss Harry Potter a little bit already? Here’s a small solution: TINY WANDS!
The Canadian answer to the (Qream) cupcake/Congo bar/electricity?
Picture pecan pie, the dessert that women’s magazines always attempt to warn you about in their mandatory ‘Making Better Choices at Thanksgiving Even Though it Only Happens Once a…
When, exactly, and under what circumstances should you call someone out on their offensive remark?
It’s tempting to opt to BE A CONSTANT VOICE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, but invariably the opportunity…
“I think of it as bling for the yard.” — A blogger and her husband built a $50K “Cape Cod style” playhouse for their four-year-old, complete with air conditioning, running water, and a working fridge. It is truly a thing to behold. [Thanks, MrComment!]
“A paper authored by Tatu Westling of Helsinki University explores the relationship between the GDP growth of countries and the penile length of their residents.” — Jason Kottke excerpts the heart of a study on economics.
No no no, Prudie. I don’t care how cranky your old-man neighbor is. You ran over his cat, he’s putting up posters and visiting shelters, you have to tell him. Otherwise lonely cranky old man will keep thinking he hears her at the window and will become gradually crankier until he starts setting fires.
For $160 or so, collectors in America will shortly be able to buy, nestled in a little crate made in China to look authentically Scottish, not a rarity, exactly, but a replica of one: whisky fabricated to resemble the whisky that the explorer Ernest Shackleton took with him to…
For the Hairpin’s first-ever post about alcohol, how about this new Animée beer, a female-friendly, low-calorie lager from Molson Coors that comes in “clear filtered,” “crisp rosé,” and “zesty lemon”? (It’ll go on sale in the U.K. later this fall.) Add Animée to that lady…
Here’s the first official track off Kanye and Jay’s collaboration album Watch the Throne, which is due out…
Slate speaks truth to power: s’mores are nasty. Even those upscale s’mores that trendy restaurants break out from time to time. Go ahead and hate on me, you’re just wrong.
“A lion is most likely to eat you just after a full moon, research has shown.” Yikes! Here is a moon schedule.
