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“Let’s see where it goes,” Ben Seklow, his director, replies. Later in the episode, the guru hands Aslan a bit of human brains, saying “Look, I am eating.” The Aghori pops the brains into his own mouth. “Eat,” he says. Aslan looks at the brains, clearly disgusted. After hesitating, he pops it into his mouth…
Google Microdata Mobile only ad Article “Cover” Five neuroscientists argue that fancy new technologies have led the field astray. Google Metadata A rat’s brain activity is recorded by sensors connected to its head. Reuters It’s a good time to be interested in the brain. Neuroscientists can now turn neurons on or off with just a…
A new universal “comprehensive” search may prompt passenger complaints to law enforcement.T he U.S. Transportation Security Administration has declined to say exactly where—and how—employees will be touching air travelers as part of the more invasive physical pat-down procedure it recently ordered. The most important business stories of the day. Get Bloomberg’s daily newsletter. But the…
On a recent trip to Disneyland, this intrepid reporter spots: A 30ish couple wearing faded Buzz Lightyear and Woody hoodies, the man’s personalized with “Derrick’s Little” in futuristic font and the woman’s with “Christine’s Big” in ropey script; A family of five in matching black-and-gold shirts, mom and daughter in Minnie and dad and sons…
“This is the first time I’ve been willing to admit that I need leadership help and I intend to get it,” wrote Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, in an email to his staff the other day. In that same email, which he sent out after Bloomberg published a video showing him berating an…
There is no longer any excuse for heterosexual men, as a group, to be bad at sex. If someone gave you the magic formula to make your partner cum and you decided to save it for a special occasion indefinitely, it would have to be assumed that you actually just don’t care. Maybe it feels…
There exists a certain unspoken heterosexual mating ritual that has persisted for the past decade or so, possibly longer. It is this: A twentysomething adult man, immediately after having sex, throws on a pair of enormous, egregiously shiny basketball shorts. Often procured from the mysterious chasm between his bed and the wall, the garment usually…
YouTube star PewDiePie’s fall from grace riled up his 53 million subscribers, but unless you’re a Gen-Z video gamer, you may find the name splashed across many a headline this week unfamiliar. Lucky you. After the Wall Street Journal reported on his pattern of using anti-Semitic jokes in his videos, Disney’s Maker Studios cut ties with the internet celeb and YouTube…
Last week, Merriam-Webster added more than a thousand words to the dictionary. Among them, “to ghost” was defined as abruptly cutting off all contact with someone by no longer accepting or responding to phone calls or messages. With Valentine’s Day approaching – a time of year some data analysts have found is actually a peak…
Image via Playboy. In late 2015, Playboy announced it would be a nudie mag no more. Their final issue featuring nipples and vag shots came out in January/February 2016, with Pamela Anderson on the cover, signifying the end of an era. It’s now the end of the new era. The first no-nude issue featured the…