Deaf Toddler Hears His Dad's Voice for the First Time Thanks to Science
Little Grayson Clamp is three years old, but he just heard his dad's voice for the first time three weeks ago. The North Carolina toddler was born without a cochlear nerve — the bridge between the...
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Why Don't You Go Live in a Human-Sized Bird Nest You Big Fucking Bird
According to the New York Times, a human newspaper definitely not written by birds, one cool thing that humans like to do nowadays is build giant bird nests to sleep in. Walking to a neighbor's house...
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Meet Arthur Sulzberger's New Girlfriend, Gabrielle Greene
New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. is dating again. Capital New York's Joe Pompeo reports that Sulzberger's newest girlfriend is a private equity director named Gabrielle Greene. The two...
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Dan Brown's Ideal Reading Experience Is Not Having to Read
How did Dan Brown, the immensely popular and successful bad writer behind such hits as The Da Vinci Code and Hey, There's a Treasure Map Under This Painting!, get to be such an immensely popular and...
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Another O.J.? Patriots' Aaron Hernandez Faces Arrest For Murder
According to a Boston law enforcement source, Aaron Hernandez will likely be arrested in connection to the murder of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd. According to witnesses, the 23-year-old New England Patriots...
View ArticleLifehacker Why We Should Rethink the Eight-Hour Workday | Kotaku Sorry...
Lifehacker Why We Should Rethink the Eight-Hour Workday | Kotaku Sorry Consoles, Apple's Controller Support Spells Trouble For You | Deadspin Report: Aaron Hernandez Was With Victim On Night Of...
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The Fatness of James Gandolfini: Inspiring, Iconic, and Probably Fatal
I never met James Gandolfini. His work as Tony Soprano strikes me as a unique and staggering artistic achievement, but I am a non-expert fan, with no experience in acting or television. To my...
View ArticleThanks to fear of the Fed's upcoming actions and some trouble in China's...
Thanks to fear of the Fed's upcoming actions and some trouble in China's credit markets, the stock market is down more than 350 points today, and the value of gold is plunging. Please put your fearful...
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The Topless Kate Upton Video TMZ Doesn't Want You to See Uncensored
Earlier today, shameless gossip e-rag TMZ posted what is quite possibly its most shameful article to date: "Kate Upton SUPER TOPLESS On a Horse." The criticism isn't levied against the site for...
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British People Wearing Bonkers Headgear: An Explanation of Ladies Day
Today marked an annual ceremony called Ladies Day, when Royalty and their hangers-on gather to ostensibly attend a horse race in the small town of Ascot in England. The exclusive Royal Enclosure also...
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Psychopathic Price Gougers: Midtown Pedicabs
Laramie Flick, pictured above, is the acting President of the New York City Pedicab Owner's Association (an unpaid position). Flick works three days a week, 8 months out of the year; he writes and...
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Getting Sued by American Express Led Me Out of the Ruins of My Life
An unexpected ring on my doorbell awoke me early one Sunday morning and I stumbled bleary-eyed to my front door and was greeted by a tall, strapping, sunglasses-wearing sheriff with an incongruously...
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This Interoffice Birthday Card Is Almost Too Corporate for Words
And I mean that literally: Besides employee names, this interoffice birthday card contains all of six words. Though it might seem callous and dystopian at first blush, anyone who has ever worked in an...
View ArticleThirdhand smoke will fuck you up just like secondhand smoke.
Thirdhand smoke will fuck you up just like secondhand smoke.
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Teen's Carjacking Attempt Foiled by Inability to Drive Stick
A Florida teen foiled his own attempt to steal a car at gunpoint when he realized he didn't know how to drive a vehicle with standard transmission. 19-year-old Antoren Bell, who also goes by Chief...
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Congratulations to Howard Kurtz on His New Job
Here's a story. In 2004, I was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, covering television. In January of that year, I began looking into a story about political donations made by reporters, editors,...
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The Worst Email from a Rich Jackass You'll Ever Read
Interior designer Micky Hurley and graphic designer Malu Custer Edwards are the Chilean power couple accused of keeping their nanny in "slave-like conditions" on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Last...
View ArticleJezebel On Miley Cyrus, Ratchet Culture and Accessorizing With Black People |...
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View ArticleInstagram's new video feature has already reached its logical conclusion:...
Instagram's new video feature has already reached its logical conclusion: Twerkforthegram, which promises six twerk out videos "every couple hours." Does this count as ratchet? We're still not sure.
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A "Sheep-Eating" Plant Just Bloomed for the First Time in the UK
“Sheep-eating” plants are not only a thing that exist; they've crossed the Atlantic from their native South America and are growing in the United Kingdom, where the first one bloomed on Thursday. The...
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