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The Unrelenting Pursuer in Horror Film 'It Follows'
Back in the ’80s there was an urban legend of a man/woman who picks up a willing sex partner at a bar/club and takes him/her back to an apartment/hotel. They do the deed, and in the morning the pickup...
View ArticleVice Leaps Into Virtual Reality News
The Vice empire’s nearly year-old hard-news channel, Vice News, took a step into the future this week when it announced it had created the first-ever virtual reality (VR) news feature.Digital artist...
View ArticleBeekeeping and Robocops Signal the Future of Cities
Updated | More than half of the world's population lives in cities and by 2050 urban dwellers are expected to boom to 66 percent of the total, up from 34 percent in 1960. Urbanization is happening fast...
View ArticleScientists Figure Out How to Unboil an Egg
Scientists at the University of California Irvine have developed a way to unboil egg whites by “untangling” their proteins, a development that has the potential to significantly reduce costs for any...
View ArticleSlugs Are Eating America's Farms
“If you went and looked at the right time of day, the whole farm would be silvery with slime.”That’s how pest consultant Gerard Troisi describes the slug dilemma in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Outbreaks...
View ArticlePopular on Tumblr? Here’s a Brand for You to Pair With
Do you command a large following on Tumblr? Have hundreds of thousands of those followers been reblogging your GIFs of dogs dressed as Lord of the Rings characters? Management would like to have a word...
View ArticleReport: Half of Federal Arrests Are on Immigration Charges
Federal immigration arrests hit an all-time high of 85,458 in 2012 — and now account for half of all federal collars, according a new Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) analysis of the most recent data...
View Article‘Broad City’ Meets Sleater-Kinney
Just past happy hour o'clock on a gusty Friday evening, the intimate basement room under New York's swanky Ace Hotel was alive with an intimate crowd, all of whom seemed awed and empowered by the three...
View ArticleBoko Haram Suspected in Attacks in Nigeria
MAIDUGURI/BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's military repelled multiple attacks by suspected Boko Haram militants on Borno state capital Maiduguri in the northeast, security sources said on Sunday,...
View ArticleProtesters Killed on Egypt Uprising Anniversary
CAIRO (Reuters) - At least 15 people were killed in anti-government protests in Egypt on Sunday, the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, security sources said.In the...
View ArticleBrain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Killed Child, Study Confirms
On a sunny summer day in July 2013, a 5-year-old boy and his family visited relatives in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. The last thing on their mind was a brain-eating amoeba. The boy played outside...
View ArticleMovies Suck Now, and They’re Only Going to Get Worse
If you think the Best Picture Oscar field seems lame this year, just wait. Movies are only going to suck more.Economic and technological forces are pushing the peculiar art form of the movie toward the...
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Ritchie Torres: Gay, Hispanic and Powerful
New York — Ritchie Torres is strolling through the toughest public housing project in the poorest neighborhood in the Bronx, unafraid.It’s not because, at 26, the youngest City Council member in...
View ArticleDoes Fiction Need to Become Less ... Fictional?
The house where the novel lives today had its foundation laid about 1,000 years ago by Lady Murasaki, with a little help from Homer and the ancient Babylonian scribes who punched The Epic of Gilgamesh...
View ArticleExit Poll Shows Greece's Syriza on Cusp of Winning Outright Majority
Updated | ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's anti-austerity leftist party Syriza stood on the cusp of an outright victory in Sunday's snap election, commanding a 10 point lead over Prime Minister Antonis...
View ArticleDay Tripping: Benefits Seen in Psychedelics
For centuries, shamans and healers have been using psychedelics in sacramental rituals in the belief that the substances have healing qualities and can lead to meaningful spiritual experiences. It...
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Vaclav Havel’s Walk on the Wild Side
When the poet and political dissident Vaclav Havel took over as president of Czechoslovakia he discovered the communists had left a gloomy, sinister government headquarters wholly ill equipped for the...
View ArticleA Taste Test of America's Good Food Movement
“Mississippi doesn’t have a huge specialty-coffee business,” says Paul Bonds of Bean Fruit Coffee Company in Jackson, Mississippi. “When I first started my booth at a local farmers market, this guy...
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With No Google, the Incarcerated Wait for the Mail
The New York Public Library recently started an Instagram series featuring questions that people posed to librarians in the days before Google. Apparently, librarians stored the more interesting...
View ArticleA History Major Watches ‘The Man in the High Castle’
Kids play the “what if” game to dream up ridiculous scenarios for their friends: What if aliens invaded Earth? What if the sky were green and the grass blue? What if you could fly? Well, what if adults...
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