Why does the ability to eat spicy foods in large amounts literally make you manlier?   You might wonder why this is so important. Well, now you have one more opportunity to show your friends how alpha you are, by eating food that makes you cry like a girl. Contradictory, isn’t it? Only now, when they ask you why you do it, and how you can eat so much without dying, you have science behind your back. A French study published in the journal Physiology and Behavior found that males who have higher testosterone levels tend to love spicy food a lot...

First, there’s the gym. Always, the gym. Because the gym is his anchor and it’s his sanctuary, and because it helps him to remember, and because it helps him to forget. The gym has been his home when he was homeless, and it is today, when he’s far from it. It’s seen him through his many successes and served as an outlet for frustration over his failures. Above all, the gym has provided him sacrosanct life lessons, learned in his youth but still applied in his adult life. This is a story about Dwayne Johnson, but it’s not about his...