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Bad news for most NHLers—you have a very short time to make your mark. A new study out of UBC, set to be published in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis of Sports, has found that performance peaks for forwards between twenty-seven and twenty-eight, defensemen peak between twenty-eight and twenty-nine, and … Read More
Trying to have a kid? Well, maybe try and lower your stress level—it’s affecting your boys. According to a study published in Fertility and Sterility, men with more stress in their lives have worse sperm—in terms of levels of sperm concentration, motility (a sperm’s ability to move properly), and whether … Read More
Next time you’re at the doctor’s office, don’t shake his hand. It’s filthy. Instead, fist bump. According to a totally real study that we’re honesty not making up—it was published in in the Journal of Hospital Infection—fist bumping is better thank shaking hands in a hospital setting because it spreads … Read More
Think that whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? We have bad news for you: if one of those things that didn’t kill you was torture, you’ll be more susceptible to pain for the rest of your life. A study published in the European Journal of Pain (just stop and … Read More
Your grandfather probably walked twelve miles through the snow on the way to school, uphill both ways, and your father probably spend a good portion of his youth driving a Dodge Charger a hundred miles over the speed limit, from one adventure to another—at least, according to their self-aggrandizing lectures … Read More
