“An area along the northeast route to the summit has earned the unassuming nickname of ‘Rainbow Valley,’ simply because of the multicolored down jackets of the numerous corpses littering the hillside.” For a harrowing way to spend the next five minutes, here…

Rich Santos’ Worst Pick-Up Line Is Amazing

Over on Marie Claire’s site, beloved man-blogger Rich Santos recounts the worst…

One in three men aged 75 to 95 are sitting in bathtubs overlooking a pretty vista, holding hands with a special friend in an adjacent bathtub, in other words about to get it on, that is to say still sexually active. But the study from…

“Gisele and the Green Team follows the adventures of Gisele Bundchen as she protects the Earth from harm. She and a group of teens run the GPlanet fashion boutique but then spring into action when called upon by Patricia. Nick…

How to Make Ice

The best recipe since Rachael Ray’s “Late Night Bacon” comes courtesy Food.com’s Chrissy G., who discovered that the trick is…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London today on two separate allegations of rape, and according to British reports one of the women making the charges is a “radical feminist.”…

“Our gadgets have turned us into hi-tech lab rats, mindlessly pressing levers in the hope of receiving a pellet of social or intellectual nourishment,” says Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. And what is it doing to our…

“Did you include any cross-training in your sessions with Portman?” — LOL, Elle magazine wants to know if, in trying to be more like a ballerina exercise-wise, inspired by the rom-com Black Swan, it…

If the arsenic aliens aren’t real then who were we even talking to?!

“On average medieval England was better off than some of the world’s poorest nations today…”

“RELAX THIS HOLIDAY SEASON” guides are everywhere, and they are infuriating. “Smell some lavender,” “weave a calendar,” “plant a carrot,” etc., etc., infinitely. It just always feels like they’re trying to TRICK us. To loosen us up so they can come and take everything back. So…