The Rent Is Too Damn High: the Movie, craziness in Norway and Kansas, and the U.S. bids for the 2022 World Cup.
Archives for 2010
Facing AIDS Online: Social Media’s Place in HIV History
December 1 is World AIDS Day, and organizations are investing significant time and money into Facebook pages and YouTube channels. But will these tools reach the populations most vulnerable to the disease?
Ten things I’ve learned from watching Buffy
If you aren’t in love with Willow, you are crazy. Being a teenager is hell. There is somebody who understands you. His name is Joss Whedon. Everybody has a purpose, everybody has a calling. I spent many hours watching Buffy and Angel with my sister. I’ll always treasure that time. I get Xander now. I…
Release of Study Confirms Repealing DADT Won’t Hurt Military
As the initial report suggested, the military can safely remove the ban on gays without any widespread or longterm consequences.
Good Comment of the Day: Our Girlfriends Don’t Have Cantaloupe Breasts
From now on, each day we want to reward the best comment with a little time in the spotlight. We are a conversation after all, and you guys are as much a part of that as any of us.
Man of the Day: Artis Jenkins
Infidelity is a tough subject to tackle. But Artis Jenkins hasn’t let that deter him. As founder of the Manogamy Movement—a blog, a brand, a voice—he has started an important conversation about why it’s still manly to be monogamous.
Assholes Finish First
What do you do when you’ve become rich and famous for writing a #1 best-selling book about your drunken, sexual misadventures? I’ll tell you what I do: I write another fucking book. Tucker Max I’M GIVING AWAY A COPY OF ASSHOLES FINISH FIRST!!!! God bless Tucker Max. He tells the stories that most don’t have…
We All Can Appreciate the Utter Perfection of F.C. Barcelona
Yesterday’s win was the ultimate product of talent, teamwork, and instinct: near-perfection we’ll probably never see again, not in any sport.
Study of the Day: Lady Fish Love Males Who Win Fights
Watching their man-fish win a fight lit up the parts of the brain associated with reproduction and pleasure. Human brains aren’t much different, but our worlds are.
The Most Boring Day Ever
Computer programmer William Tunstall-Pedoe developed True Knowledge, a computer program in which over 300 million historical events are compiled and connected to “provide a more intelligent way of searching the Internet.” Here’s what his complex algorithm determined.
Mark Zuckerberg Has ‘a Lot in Common’ With George W. Bush
The two yukked it up for an hour on a streamed Facebook interview. Topics included education, “difficult decisions,” and their shared weathering of widespread disapproval.
The 10 at 10: November 30
F.C. Barcelona’s greatness, Ecuador wants Julian Assange, and Mark Ruffalo might be a terrorist: the 10 at 10.
Why Suicide?
Haunted by his father’s death when he was only 10, Eric Marcus produced a book that answers every imaginable question about suicide.
A Slippery Road
In this installment of “Bipolar Planet,” Gabi Coatsworth’s son, Jason, struggles to stay on the path to recovery.
Scheherazade of the Stove
Ina Chadwick’s biggest addiction? Addicted men. She thinks her dad had something to do with it.
Man of the Day: Morris Callaman
“I think the worst thing a human being can do to another human being is to interfere with his perception of reality.”