Today in viral videos: Russell Brand gets sympathetic, 50 (completely unscientific) ways to trick people into thinking you're smarter than you are, and summer treat from Disney.
It's the year 3991 A.D., the three massive super nations, the Celts, Vikings and Americans, are locked in a 1,700-year war, the ice caps have melted 20 times over, and one Reddit user is now a decade older than when he or she started this game.
With a Bronx District Attorney review on the way and alumni stopping donations and creating advocacy websites, we'd say Amos Kamil's New York Times Magazine story on the alleged decades-long history of sex abuse at the Horace Mann prep school has had a big impact.
You guys really like that Anna Wintour ambassadorial rumor a lot don't you? Enough to give it three years of legs? Well, sorry to kill your dreams of the icy Vogue editor becoming a U.S. ambassador, but just like in 2009, this isn't happening.
Raising fines for unauthorized protesting, raiding homes of activists, and calling leaders in for questioning--none of these actions helped Vladimir Putin stop out the thousands of anti-Putin protesters who showed up on a national holiday Tuesday to tell Putin how he stole this year's election.
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Players: Madonna, the blonde Queen of Pop who's basically immortal and in the midst of MDNA tour; Lady Gaga, the blonde Princess of Pop who's on her way to immortality and in the midst of her Born This Way ball.
Scary news out of Libya today: It appears that there has been an rocket-propelled grenade attack on a British convoy in the country.
Depending on what you're reading, ex-Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak might be in a coma, might not be in a coma, or might simply be in really bad shape. What his lawyers want, of course, is to get him out of jail and into a hospital.
How was Chicago's weekend? Not good. In around two days, over 40 people were shot and six were killed in 22 incidents around the city.
Some sad news this morning: Good Morning America's Robin Roberts has announced that she'll need a bone marrow transplant because she's suffering from a rare blood disorder that is reportedly a complication from her breast cancer treatments five years ago.
If The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza is right, we might be in for four more years of compromise on things like climate change and nuclear proliferation.
What kind of image overhaul did the Assads get by paying Western PR firms like Brown Lloyd James $5,000 a month? Apparently that Bashar can speak English and that Asma is like, a total babe.
Let's hope no one was hurt. TMZ is reporting that Lindsay Lohan is in the ER after crashing her Porsche into the back of an 18-wheeler in Santa Monica.
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From getting dumped to fighting for your reproductive rights, we picked out our favorite (and one not-so favorite) speeches from this year's round of graduations.
Dear future journalists of America: If you're sleeping with the next ambassador to Iraq, it's not a good idea to use your company email to discuss "blue balls," masturbation, and sexual favors.
Today's the 40th anniversary of photographer Nick Ut shooting his famous 'Napalm Girl' photo and five years since he shot Paris Hilton crying in 2007. Which means it's one more chance for The New York Daily News to remind us how far society has slipped.
Go ahead and call (407) 435-2400 all you want--it's retired now, but not before it ruined Junior Alexander Guy's life.
Maybe this is a form of recycling? According to The Boston Globe's Mary Carmichael, CNN host and Newsweek columnist Fareed Zakaria gave strikingly similar commencement speeches to Duke and Harvard graduates within 11 days of each other.
This is a pretty terrible statistic: 154 active duty troops have committed suicide in the first 155 days of the new year--a rate alarmingly close to one per day.
Cartoonist Tony Auth on Sandusky and the jury of his peers.
There's a summer theme on the social media ranks with companies like Daimler and Volvo taking their new models out for test drives and road trips, while Carnival Cruises and some German company (we'll explain later) banked on your summer vacations.
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A new study by 22 biologists and ecologists has found that environmental changes on our planet are reaching a point of no return that leads to mass extinctions and harms human welfare. The situation, said one scientist, “scares the hell out of me.”
Being president of Estonia must not be all that taxing. How else can you explain the amount of free time Toomas Hendrik Ilves apparently has to noodle around with Twitter and talk to reporters?
Thanks to their network of oxycodone-dispensing pain clinics, Christopher and Jeffrey George amassed $40 million in cash in just over two years, and came close to avoiding a federal indictment despite their 56 overdosed customers.
Valérie Trierweiler, partner of Francois Hollande, France's new president, has decided to keep her job but switch from reporting on politics to writing art and book reviews to avoid a conflict of interest. But people still think she could have too much clout even as a critic.
Hey, if we made $1 million dollars within 90 minutes of announcing our support for same-sex marriage you can sure bet our next events would include Cher and a house party with the guy who made Glee.
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Twitter introduced its new bird doodle logo today and instead saying "Hey, birds tweet—look how cute this bird is," they've given us some overdetermined explanation about networks and circles or something.
You're probably asking yourself how an airport could run out of something like that. Well, it's lot more simple than the process of refueling the darn thing.
Here's a first: Thanks to some sleuthing and a five-o'clock shadow, London's National Portrait Gallery is now the proud owner of the first painted portrait of a crossdresser.
Well, this will never be an ad for Match.com: Join the site where people trusting enough to give complete strangers $25,000 can meet con artists happy to take advantage of them.
It looks like someone may have hacked 6.46 million LinkedIn passwords. And, well, no one seems worried.
That's up 11 percent from 2010. Though, we're wondering about how 40 percent of you, in the age of Facebook, Twitter, and whatnot still don't have a close friend or family member who's gay.
If you're an aide to that "mild mannered ophthalmologist" Bashar al-Assad, who's ruling that bloody murderous mess that is Syria, your best bet getting out of the country and into a cushy Ivy League grad program is apparently Barbara Walters
Cartoonist Tony Auth on cyber warfare and drone strikes.
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For those of you still lamenting the loss of GOOD, we caught up with a few of its fired editors who talked about their new project on the horizon and how GOOD is poised to become more like Reddit and less like a magazine.
In your ridiculous-but-not-ridiculous-because-this-is-China-we're-talking-about news of the day: the Chinese government on Tuesday told foreign embassies to stop reporting on Beijing's crappy air quality.
Pakistani officials announced today that they have evidence that a U.S. drone strike might have killed Abu Yahya al-Libi, al-Qaeda's most recent second-in-command, apparently just one week after the previous No. 2 was killed.
And cartoonist Tom Toles doesn't think it's doing much good.
In five days, GOOD went from being a media darling to the media's latest jerk when the company laid off most of its editorial staff. Just what happened to the do-gooder publication is still pretty murky.
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The City University of New York's project on 1940s New York launched today charting 1940's census information ...ooooh my gosh $30 dollar rents!
We never thought we'd see the day when pictures of Prince Harry being drunk or a "Sick Nazy Orgy With 5 Hookers" would be held up as a sterling journalistic success, but declining circulation numbers at the Sunday Sun are that bad.
In his profile of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's media empire, New York magazine's Gabriel Sherman explains the stat-based credo Bloomberg's journalists follow, what their bosses want, and perhaps more importantly, what he doesn't want.
Update 10:44 a.m. : Bild, a German newspaper, is reporting that Luka Magnotta has been arrested in Berlin. Canada's CBC News adds that the arrest took place in an Internet cafe. And according to Bloomberg's Jake Beckman, German police have confirmed his arrest.
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