From Gangnam Style to the Harlem Shake, Why We Just Can’t Resist a Dance Craze
The “Harlem Shake”—a pop culture phenomenon that’s part dance and part costumed chaos, all performed to a techno…
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Do Reusable Bags Make You Sick? Ummm…
In March we introduced our readers to attorney Stephen Joseph, or ”The Bag Man,“ who tendentiously claims that…
Our Guide Proves Prescient in Outlining Post-Castro Cuba
Journalist and respected Cuba watcher Ann Louise Bardach outlined a post-Castro world for our readers late last year…
About Those Oscar Predictions…
The Oscar ceremonies proved to be a rough night for both Seth McFarlane (whose performance as host was…
Playing Hooky at the Office
If you’re reading this on a weekday between nine and five, chances are, you’re “cyberloafing.” As a cyberloafer,…
Why Does Hollywood Still Suck at Gender Equality?
It’s 2010, and the room is tight with anticipation. Barbra Streisand, a titan for gender equality in her…
The Feminine Tweet-stique
Men are from Mars, women from Venus, and the Twitter feeds they send back to Earth prove it.…
Stats Guru Predicts Oscar Wins for ‘Lincoln’, Spielberg
Are you going with the conventional wisdom that Argo has a lock on a Best Picture Academy Award?…
Translation Studies: The News in English, Spanish, Russian, Arabic
Documentary experiment Syria Deeply, “exploring a new model of storytelling around a global crisis,” has been conducting a…
Killer Quakes Are Coming; Let’s Build Accordingly
There will be blood, according to U.S. Geological Survey scientists: As the world population grows we can expect…