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Overpriced moisturizers. Acupuncture. Korean sleep masks. European sunscreens. Laser facials. Bags of spinach in smoothies. You name it, I’ve either tried it or it’s currently in my shopping cart on Amazon. Call me a sucker but these kind of products intrigue me. So naturally, when the internet went crazy a few months ago over the…
In June 2006, a 16-year-old girl began a video blog on YouTube. Her name was Bree, she’d been lurking in the burgeoning community for a while. She was a self-described dork, she thought her hometown was really boring – “Maybe that’s why I spend so much time on my computer …” She was funny, friendly,…
Ten years ago, the UAE embarked on a $22 billion mission to build a zero-carbon city powered by the sun, cooled by the wind, and entirely dependent upon mass transit. But building the world’s first sustainable metropolis proved far trickier than anyone anticipated, and just 5 percent of Masdar City stands today. French photographer Etienne Malapert…
About a thousand people gathered in Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn on Tuesday night. It was a candlelight vigil, the borough rallying in solidarity with the LGBT community, and against what’s at this point simply being called hate. Near the impromptu stage, hand-drawn on white poster board, a sign read “Love conquers hate.” After the…
In the wake of the horrific shooting in Orlando that left 50 dead, a political struggle is forming on whether to define this act as an anti-gay crime or an act of radical Islamic terrorism. The answer, it’s quickly starting to seem, is both of these, and more. A picture is quickly starting to form…
Image by János Csongor Kerekes (Flickr Creative Commons), cropped from original When Gawker Media was sentenced to pay Hulk Hogan $140 million in damages for publishing his sex tape, it was seen as a victory over snarky New York media. Now, with the revelation that the lawsuit was secretly bankrolled by Silicon Valley Billionaire Peter…
screenshot/CNNNetwork TV continued to take a beating in 2015, but audiences were up for cable news programs, online content, and podcasts, according to a new report on media trends from the Pew Research Center. Some of last year’s biggest media winners included CNN, which saw a 38 percent increase in prime-time viewers last year, and The Nation magazine, which saw a…
Image copyright PAImage caption Jo Cox was the Labour MP for Batley and Spen An MP has died after she was shot and stabbed during an attack in her constituency, police have said. Jo Cox, 41, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, was left bleeding on the ground by her attacker. A 77-year-old man also…
A marathon Democratic filibuster in the wake of the Orlando nightclub massacre came to an end in the US Senate on Thursday morning after Republicans apparently agreed to hold votes on tighter gun control measures. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, led the filibuster which lasted for more than 14 hours along with several colleagues. In…
Murphy speaks on the Senate floor.Screenshot/C-SPAN2 Update, 8:15 a.m.: Murphy ended his filibuster at 2:11 a.m., meaning that it lasted for 14 hours and 50 minutes, and has announced that Senate Republicans have agreed to hold votes on universal-background-check and terror-watch-list legislation. He ended his remarks by telling the story of six-year-old Sandy Hook…