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JIM BEHRLE in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

15 Name Suggestions For Brooklyn’s New NBA Team

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

The MoMA Admission Increase is Horrible

At MoMA, the amount of revenue from admissions (almost $25 million a year, and these are…

Emily Gould in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

Jon-Jon Goulian and Emily Gould Make Rugelach

The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

How They Got There: A Q&A With Uber-Career Hopper Paul Hoffman

by Noah Davis

Alex Balk in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

The Throw Up Machine

Hahaha, made you puke: “If you want to play an incredibly mean prank on someone, then the Sonic Nausea Device is the product for you. The intense machine produces such a high frequency sound that direct listeners will become instantaneously nauseous…. The high frequency sounds produced by…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

It’s Too Hot For Meth

We’re looking at a spate of days in the 90s starting this weekend, so, uh, stay off the pipe:

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

Evil Lobbyist Places Op-Ed Piece

“Decades of research confirm that summer learning loss is real.”
— “Jeff Smink is the vice president for policy for the National Summer Learning Association.”

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

“In March 1970, the poet Ted Hughes found himself in a tricky real estate situation.”

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

The Yogurt Industry Is Totally Out of Control!

“Yogurt science has gone too far. We have yogurts that make you go, yogurts from Greece that you cut like brie (mmm, fat), yogurts that taste like enchilada-style burritos. Do you remember WOW chips? What are we looking for from food? Do we really…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

‘Daily News’ Endorses Prison Rape

My very, very favorite kind of American media article is the one about how prisons in other countries just don’t have enough rape. These come out quite frequently! Today the Daily News adds the latest to this genre: it’s all upset about how Norway’s Halden Prison, where…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

Earth’s Got A Gut

Earth is all, “You know what? If nobody cares what happens to me, why am I busting my ass to stay in shape? I’m just going to…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

What The Future Looked Like In 1995

Alex Balk in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

Puppy Fakes His Own Death

The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

The Sound of Digital Music

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Choire Sicha in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

“But there is another near universal pizza delivery enhancement…”

Ways to win my heart (and traffic): “But that’s not to say that there hasn’t been any innovation in the pizza box space. FAR FROM IT!”

Alex Balk in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

Here Come The Bears

Hungry bears will eat us all.

Dave Bry in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

There Is A Trojan Asteroid Near Us In Space

Alex Balk in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

You Are A Hologram

As it turns out, we are all holograms, and “everything is a projection of something occurring on a flat surface billions of light years away from where we perceive ourselves to be.” So go ahead and have a few drinks with lunch. It’s not really YOU who’s drinking.

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Jul 28, 2011

AIDS Benefit Gets Terrible, (Delightfully) Mean Review

They say you mellow as you age. And yet, this is likely the single cattiest dispatch Bob Morris has yet filed for the Times in his many [redacted] years. “Nearby, under a gnarled old tree, a black granite gravestone for one of the host’s dogs had been littered with empty wineglasses. “