A kind-eyed Romanian doctor announced this week that he, along with a team of colleagues at Babeş-Bolyai University, had made a marvelous and potentially life-saving stride for medicine, science, and humanity following the successful completion of a round of testing on the artificial blood product they have devoted the …
According to Vice, Rob Ford's spokesman located a password-protected copy of a video of his boss smoking crack online and hired a "hacker" to destroy it.
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The Illinois House just passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. The bill now heads to the Senate, which already passed the measure, for a technical change to its effective date. Governor Pat Quinn has pledged to sign the bill into law, thus making Illinois the 15th state (including D.C.) to recognize gay marriage.
The subjects of Britain's royal monarchy will doubtless be spluttering with gobsmacked rage when they hear that Prince Charles may in fact be getting an unfair advantage on his taxes.
A Sasquatch hunting expedition in Oklahoma ended in tragedy this weekend when one hunter accidentally shot another in the back. A subsequent investigation led to three arrests: the trigger-happy hunter, the trigger-happy hunter's father, and the trigger-happy hunter's wife.
Ming Hui is a visiting poetry scholar from Beijing. He has been in New York City for almost a year translating Allen Ginsberg poetry into Mandarin, and he is obsessed with the 1984 film Once Upon A Time In America, so much so, that he has put together a series of images comparing scenes from the film, with the…
Enrollment of international students in US grad schools leaped by 10% this year. Which might just balance out the fact that the majority of first-generation American college students are not academically prepared for college.
Obvious statement of the day: screenwriting is not an easy profession to break into. Because of this truism, a cottage industry of screenplay services has popped up to help Hollywood hopefuls get notes, learn how to market themselves, and—most lucrative of all—have their material exposed to someone who might actually…
19-year-old NYU student Asher Vongtau is counting his blessings. Over the weekend, the Pittsburgh native fell from the roof of his Tribeca dorm, where he had been drinking, into the terrifyingly narrow space between the dorm and the adjacent building on Lafayette Stree—and wasn’t discovered, thankfully alive, until 36…
This morning, Rob Ford admitted what we already knew: that he has smoked crack cocaine
Late last month, the NYPD was embarrassed when cops allegedly threw a man in jail
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In the face of criticism about hip-hop’s lyrics, Chuck D once argued that rappers weren’t glorifying drugs and violence but rather reporting on the ills of the inner city for the rest of the country. It’s an ethos the genre has maintained ever since, even as hip-hop has grown beyond solely documenting urban America.…
At what point does a startup stop being a startup, and become just another store at the airport?
If you're anything like me, your favorite movie of 2013 so far is "Amazing Helmet-Cam Video of Skydivers on One Plane When Another Plane Hits Them
Today, we're going to talk about whether the internet is Good or Bad for society.
A man in New Mexico is suing after a routine traffic stop ended in several gross civil-rights violations, including an anal cavity search for which he was charged by the hospital. The man was pulled over after rolling a stop sign, but ended up getting several invasive searches requested by the police on flimsy…
Central Connecticut State University was thrown into a panic yesterday when reports of an armed person on the premises sent the campus into a lockdown. After three hours of worry, it was over: a suspect had been arrested, no weapon was found, and police say there was never a threat in the first place. What gives?
The Colbert Report has a new Twitter feed about Fox News, and it's brilliant.
Here, via CTV News, is a video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who smokes crack cocaine, telling reporters 30 minutes ago that he smoked crack cocaine.
lifehack (noun) A somber acknowledgement that while life itself is mostly boredom, disappointment and heartbreak, you can at least use up some of life's many hours with different ways to peel garlic or organize your closet shelves.
Rob Ford: "Yes I have smoked crack cocaine"
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Who doesn't love making kids scream (and maybe cry a little) on Halloween? In Jimmy Kimmel's third annual exercise in being mean to small humans, children everywhere were told all their trick-or-treating loot had been consumed by their parents—who taped the reactions and uploaded them to YouTube. The responses range…
Since being banned from Wall Street, Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget uses his blog to ponder life's mysteries. What's the deal with Jews
Bill de Blasio, the Brooklyn Democrat and sitting Public Advocate, was elected the 109th mayor of New York City on Tuesday, carried by a dramatic lead over Republican opponent Joe Lhota and widespread sentiment that the Bloomberg administration had turned against New York’s struggling middle class. The candidate is expected to deliver his victory speech in roughly eight-and-a-half hours before supporters gathered at the Park Slope Armory YMCA.
Idiomatic linguists may soon have to come up with a new meaning for "watching paint dry," if Hollywood has anything to say about it—because literally watching paint dry is on the fast-track to becoming must-see TV.
