(Men's Health) Check out master illusionist David Copperfield tricks for stuff you really want gone: Your Beer Gut An essential tool of any magician is misdirection. The key is making the distraction engaging. In one study, people who were asked to watch for specific things in a video failed to notice a man in a gorilla suit walking through the shot. If you don't want your gut noticed, give people something more interesting to focus on. Or try exercising. Maybe you need some misdirection from those nachos. Your Past What was I thinking with that mullet? Don't be defined by your regrets. If you dwell on the past, so will everyone else. Concentrate on what's next. What are you doing every day to challenge and redefine yourself? It's another form of misdirection. I don't have to do magic shows anymore. But I love pushing the art in new directions, reinventing myself, surprising people, defying expectations. Lipstick on a Collar You really need a magician for this o...

Real life relationships are infinitely more complicated than those in your average fable, movie or half-hour TV show. Still, there's nothing wrong with taking a page or two from pop culture when writing the script for your own love life.  Self  magazine ask readers these questions and here's what they said: 77% agree that "you have to change who you are a little to make love work." 83% disagree that "big romantic gestures are a measure of how much he loves you." 58% agree that "sex can turn into love." 83% disagree that "an unattractive and foul tempered guy can grow on you." 81% agree that "the love of your life could be right under your nose, right now." 56% agree that "first impressions are usually correct." 74% agree that "it's possible to keep sex hot even with kids and a crazy busy life." 86% agree that "mixing business with romance rarely ends well in real life." 88% agree that...

Men's Health lists these ways to naturally boost brainpower: Focus better with meditation A 2018 study from the University of Miami found that of the people who attended a three month long meditation retreat, those who continued the practice regularly and intensively did not show age-related decline in sustained attention seven years later. Get more done with chocolate The active ingredient in dark chocolate, cocoa flavanols, maybe immediately improve visual information processing and working memory performance. Have a square or two and stick with natural cocoa: "Dutch processing" reduces flavanol content. Augment your memory with games A 30-minute brain-training session based on the "n-back test," requiring participants to recall squares and letters they'd seen previously, improved their working memory, compared with those who didn't train. Try it yourself at cognitivefun.net/test/4. Cultivate your creativity with tea In a new study, people who drank a ...

( Popular Mechanics ) You've probably heard this before, but using unsecured wi-fi makes your data vulnerable. It may be tempting to log on to free public wi-fi, but try to refrain from using it. If you find yourself in a position where you absolutely need it, follow these tips for secure browsing: Use unsecured wi-fi sparingly and refrain from accessing personal information such as bank and credit card accounts. Don't do any online shopping or purchasing where you'll need to enter your credit card credentials or other sensitive information. Turn off automatic connectivity so you're in control of when and where you log on. Remember to turn your bluetooth off whenever you're not using it. If you usually leave yours on, the data on your device is open to anyone with their own Bluetooth-enabled device. All they have to do is connect and they can access your info. Consider investing in a virtual private network such as ExpressVPN.

Breathing through your nose boosts your memory by improving the transfer of information from the senses to the brain's storage network. One in four drivers runs a red light at least once a week. The average teenage girl slams a door about 150 times a year. 12% of us don't use prescriptions even after we've paid for them. According to research, people who wrote to-do lists fall asleep 9 minutes faster than those who wrote about completed tasks. 62% of women wouldn't date a guy who had a ponytail. Disney World buys fireworks than any other company in North America. The number one rule in most people's houses is no shoes on the furniture. According to a new report, men consume 82% of this junk food? Potato chips. When taking both genders into account, the average adult is around 5 feet, 1.8 inches. People in Bolivia don't tend to be much taller, with an average adult height of 5 feet, 2.4 inches. The tallest people among us live in the Netherlands, where ...

Residential Internet usage has surged 98% amid the COVID-19 crisis. Home Depot is cutting its hours and has started closing at 6pm. England has canceled all elective operations for three months. Norwegian musher Thomas Waerner won the Iditarod sled-dog race. There are some saying that, in the near future, we could be seeing gasoline at under a dollar a gallon. Wow, Netflix has been asked to control their streaming so the Internet doesn't "buckle." Officials will likely be forced to postpone the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as the ongoing coronavirus outbreak makes it nearly impossible for many athletes to train or attend qualification events, reports  Sports Business Journal . Despite the profound toll being exacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Quibi and HBO Max both report that they plan to go ahead and launch. Quibi is slated to launch April 6, and HBO Max is slated for late May. And they were supposed to shoot that "Friends" reunion for HBO Max on Mond...

In 1936 Benny Goodman and his Orchestra record "Christopher Columbus." In 1948 The first live televised musical, "Eugene Ormandy" is seen on CBS. In 1954 Decca, Columbia and MGM records introduce "high fidelity" records. In 1958 Elvis Presley reports for U.S. Army duty. In 1959 Bobby Rydell makes his first TV appearance on "American Bandstand." In 1961 Ricky Nelson records "Hello Mary Lou." In 1961 "Surrender" by Elvis Presley hits #1 on the U.S. top 40 chart and stayed there for 2 weeks. In 1965 "Game Of Love" by Mindbenders and "I Know A Place" by Petula Clark both enter the U.S. top 40 chart. In 1967 The Supremes' single "The Happening" is released. In 1967 "Penny Lane" by the Beatles is certified gold. In 1968 Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Richie Furray and Jim Messina are arrested in Los Angeles for "suspected marijuana use." In 1969 John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibralt...