How to Dress for New Year's EveNew Year’s Eve is just around the corner and just around the corner from that is a whole new decade. While the 2020 festivities are universal, the parties you attend are not. Show up tux’d to your local dive or thrashed tee, socks and ‘stocks to the black-tie benefit dinner and you’ll win bragging rights for the next decade as the worst missed memo. That’s why we’ve rounded up these three different outfits for three different New Year’s Eve parties. Read the Story
How to Read a Bag of Coffee BeansWhen staring down a wall of jargon-strewn bags filled with small-batch coffee, it’s difficult to know where to start. There’s no harm in grabbing whatever seems most interesting, but isolating certain details — such as roast date and country of origin — can give you a better sense of what you’re buying, and the kind of coffee you’ll ultimately brew from it. Thomas Costello of Counter Culture Coffee outlined three pieces of information to look for on a bag of coffee beans that are most often reflective of quality. Read the Story
The 12 Best Fitness Apps Right Now
Our smartphones, we’re told, are ruining our lives. But it’s not the phones themselves that are the problem, so much as how we use them. In fact, a whole category of health and fitness apps are poised to help make you fitter and more relaxed than ever before—to fight back against the creeping physical and mental ills of the Information Age. At the very least, they offer variety, and a change of pace from the tired old fitness routine that saw you plateau back when the iPhone 4 was released.Read the Story
Get Ripped Quick with This Simple and Effective HIIT WorkoutStaying fit on the road is always a challenge. The good news though is that everyone has fifteen minutes, and that’s all it takes to do an HIIT workout. The theory behind HIIT is that short, very intense anaerobic workouts offer different, complementary benefits to lower intensity aerobic workouts like jogging or going for a leisurely bike ride. HIIT workouts like this one are said to improve overall athletic performance, boost metabolism and burn fat.
