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The Size of a Human Rolled Into a Sphere

“If an average-sized human body were rolled into a sphere, how big would that sphere be?”

Choire: whoa
 http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=127913967087475000
 Balk: Come ON.
 Choire: RIGHT?
 Balk: I cannot believe an editor did not yank that headline. It is kind of shocking that they were able to pull it off. I mean…

“We’re very disappointed.”
 — Brooklyn resident Sylvia Mak, who had “wanted to spend $70, or more, on shirts” for her daughters at the mall-beachwear outpost Hollister before finding out that the Soho outpost of the chain was closed because of a…

Today’s sign that maybe it’s time to move on from the whole “Making Things That Smell Like Other Things” industry, because we have run out of nose-pleasing scents: the White Castle scented candle, which…

Emily Gould reads two books about love so you don’t have to-the Christina Nehring brief history of romance and Julie Metz’s crazy memoir. WARNING: the Metz book contains the sentence “I creamed the lacy panties I had bought for the occasion.” Wow.

Here is the world’s worst holiday gift guide, from the Washington Post. Bubble bath! Mediocre wingtips! (Here’s a hint: if you’re going to spend more $550 on wingtips for men, then you can afford to go to John Lobb and get proper ones.) And? Says one gift-giver: “My female…