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Remember when everyone clutched their pearls after Ricky Williams mimed smoking a joint on the sidelines of a Miami Dolphins game? It aged about as well as the “a college scholarship is more than enough compensation for student athletes” argument...

We’ve all heard about Andy Warhol’s old declaration that in the future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes—except that wasn’t really something Warhol said. The late artist has been famous for decades because of his work, but that quote h...

Hosting an Olympics of any kind is like when it’s your turn to host a house party after you turn 30. Yes, we all like social gatherings and it’s fun seeing everyone, but I have to spend money to feed people who dirty shit up, judge my house, comp...

Here's a fascinating interview with Yale sociologist Nick Christakis on Amanpour & Co. Professor Christakis breaks down the three phases of a plague (we're barely out of phase 1) and looks at the differences between wars and plagues in their afte...

We’re surrounded with loaded language. Whether it’s mass media, politics, or the people around us, someone is always trying to use words and phrases to support their agenda and to change our minds in bad faith.Read more...

I love when Spacedock poses questions about science fiction universes that most of us have never bothered to ask (like Why does every ship in sci-fi have its guns on backwards?). In this video, they ask another interesting question: Why can civilians...

If you found this article, you probably just went through a series of job interviews somewhere, thought you got along well with the hiring managers and were not only qualified, but a great fit for the company’s culture, then got a devastating—and...