Ask Polly: My Boyfriend Thinks I’m Ugly

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How Are You Fucking Up Your Life In The Parallel Universe?

“On Monday, scientists discovered ‘smoking gun’ to expanding universe. They found gravitational waves produced moments after the Big Bang. The discovery points to powerful type of inflation of the early universe. If space-time…

Standards So Devalued That Even ’80s Dylan Okay Now

Things Will Suck Whether You’re Sad Or Not

“A new study from New Zealand explores aversion to happiness, and how various cultures react differently to feelings of well-being and satisfaction. Graduate student Mohsen Joshanloo and Dan Weijers, Ph.D., of the Victoria University of Wellington…

Weeds Irksome

Yes, winter here in New York has been rough, what with the constant cold weather and the repeated snowfalls and the continuous lack of light feeding the feeling of anguish and solitude that always lurks just below the surface at even the sunniest of times but has never been so insistent and pervasive as…

What Will Our Easily-Influenced Rubes Eat Next?

Will one of these items capture the particular combination of culinary gimmickry and inexplicable desirability that turns it into the next ludicrous obsession which even people whose friends refer to them as “foodies” without derision will stand…