Study: Pooping Makes You Smarter and Better at Sports

Whether they cultivate their muscles or minds, people have always sought to be faster, stronger, better. To achieve the peak of excellence, athletes and great thinkers both have resorted to various performance boosters, from anabolic steroids to gladiator sweat. However, you don’t need to take anything to do better, whether it’s in sports or academia. …

Cheating Accusations Shake Up World Conker Championships

The World Conker Championships just can’t catch a break. It seems some new controversy rattles the annual U.K. chestnut-smashing competition every year. In 2023, the year’s mushy chestnut harvest led to the contest’s organizers suggesting they bake the nuts to harden them. That sparked outrage, which relented only after the organizers announced they had found …

Japanese Daydreamers Gather for Second Annual Tokyo Space-Out Competition

If you engage in a competition, it usually involves doing something. You’re trying to find out who’s the best at running, lifting heavy objects, building a house of cards, or screeching like a seagull. But not at the Tokyo Space-Out Competition. This is a contest to determine who’s the best at doing nothing at all. …

Doctors Warn Slap Fighting May (Shockingly!) Cause Brain Damage

Getting hit in the head is generally not very good for your health. Yet, many sports from boxing to football put the athletes at serious risk of getting bonked on the noggin. That’s why the athletes and contestants wear protective gear. Football players take to the field while fairly heavily armored and even boxers use …