The Art of Manliness

When it comes to weight management and all-around good metabolic health, we most often think about what to eat. But my guest would say that it’s also crucial to think about when to eat, Emily Manoogian is a chronobiologist and clinical researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Today on the show, Emily shares […]

With the holidays coming up, I’ve been thinking about hot cocoa, how to get into the spirit of the season, and . . . home security. A 2022 study found that burglaries increase during the holidays due to more people being away from home because of travel and the presence of more high-value items in […]

Note: The following is an excerpt from The Building of Boyhood: A Manual for Parents, published in 1933.

TheraGun Massage Gun. Well, my journey into the art of middle-aged manliness continues. For the past few months, I’ve noticed that I’ve been slower to recover after my heavy leg days. Quads have been particularly sore. I picked up a TheraGun deep tissue massage gun after reading a study in Michael Easter’s Two Percent newsletter […]

It’s not uncommon for former law enforcement officers and intelligence agents to write self-help books where they share how the lessons they learned in their professional careers can apply to people in any walk of life. What is rare is for one of these officers-turned-authors to publicly prove they know what they’re talking about and […]

For example, prior to the mid-19th century, Christmas was more of a public holiday — more akin to Halloween or the Fourth of July — than a private, domesticated one. It was celebrated with drunken revelry on streets and in town squares rather than in the familial living room. But with the rise of railways, people could both move farther away more easily, and more readily return home. And so Christmas became a time of homecomings, when the fragmented family could all get back together and reconnect around the household hearth.

Think about a hot loaf of bread fresh out of the oven. There’s a lot going on with that loaf. On one level, it’s a literal food that’s been created through chemical processes. A delicious — your mouth might be watering right now — form of sustenance. But there’s also more to it than that. […]

These days, you hear more and more about parents and adult children being estranged from each other. Some individuals have even decided to go “no contact” with their parents; they don’t want anything to do with their mom and/or dad at all. To understand what’s behind this phenomenon, today I talk to Joshua Coleman, a […]

Ever feel like you can’t say no? Like you’re constantly doing things you don’t want to to avoid letting others down or having them think less of you? You’re not alone. Saying no to people’s requests is something I’ve had to work on throughout my adult life. I know a lot of other people who […]

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