“How do you juggle it all?”
Writer/producer/actorTina Fey on working motherhood, the show business industry, and the worst question you can ask a woman.
View Article"I could clear nearly 1 percent of my state’s organ waiting list."
Death row inmate Christian Longo continues his crusade to allow prisoners to donate their organs with an op ed in the Times. Post mortem voluntary donation supposedly avoids the same consent issues as...
View Article“Show me a grad student I can f*ck”
Women share sexual harassment stories on "Being a Woman in Philosophy." Several philosophers suggest the idea of not inviting known repeat offenders to conferences. Professor Mark Lance of Georgetown:...
View Article"Let's stop harvesting brains."
Undocumented workers, an autoimmune mystery traced to aerosolized pork brains from increased line production speed, and what sounds like one of the worst jobs in America.
View ArticleGirl questions.
She neither flaunts nor hides her ambition, and she talks about her guilt at not being home more; she takes command in meetings, yet she’s comfortable describing Mark Zuckerberg as “my boss,” and as...
View Article"She understands everything. There's so much more in her than she lets us see."
An update on the progress of Danielle Lierow, a so-called "feral child" who was the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning special report in the St. Petersburg Times. Unlike another famously neglected...
View Article“Why are you shocking him? He’s tied down. He can’t hurt anyone.”
Founded by Harvard grad and Skinner disciple Matthew Israel, the Judge Rotenberg Center for the developmentally disabled is built around the idea of conditioning behavior through corporal...
View Article"How Can We Stop Pedophiles? Stop treating them like monsters."
A Slate essay on the state of mental health services available to non-offending, self-aware pedophiles. Another recent essay on those"born this way." A Liberty University professor's"expose" of the...
View ArticleYou are not Gary Busey or Son of Sam, but your mugshot is still on the internet.
A Gizmodo article, and a recent piece in Wired magazine, on how mugshots-as-entertainment have turned minor incidents into persistent embarrassments, and the cottage (extortion) industry that has...
View ArticleLife Without Father.
Photographer Jen Kiaba writes a first hand account of courtship and a mass wedding under the direction of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church. Not every arranged marriage story...
View Article"Her daughter is a six year old version of me."
A six year old with progeria, the internet,well-meaningadults, and a bunch of not so well-meaning ones, plus facebook and youtube, create the usual storm.
View Article"I don't think we've heard the last of him."
Previously. A year later, he's still at it, and, as is usually the case, his backstory is sadder and more complicated than just a News Of The Weird guffaw.
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