How 'Deep Throat' Forever Changed My Childhood
I had a quiet suburban adolescence until Dad was busted on federal obscenity charges for distributing "Deep Throat."
I had a quiet suburban adolescence until Dad was busted on federal obscenity charges for distributing "Deep Throat."
A duplex in Fresno caught fire on Saturday morning trapping a man inside. Watch as one man decided take action and run into the blaze.
Peyton Manning broke the NFL's all-time touchdown record Sunday night, and while you'd think his teammates would be gushing with joy, instead they decided to screw with an old man who just wanted his special ball. Gotta keep him humble.
Oil and gas prices are falling through the floor. And some countries are woefully unprepared for the drop.
Amid the unrest that followed the shooting of Michael Brown, the Ferguson Burger Bar & More became a community safe haven, serving comfort food and facilitating conversation.
Countless articles have been written about General Motors and its massive recalls earlier this year. What hasn’t been fully told is how GM might have gotten away with multiple counts of consumercidewere it not for the efforts of three men: a Georgia lawyer, a Mississippi mechanic, and a Florida engineer.
If you don't know how to serve chili after this video, you're never going to learn.
Serena Williams says comments by the head of the Russian Tennis Federation referring to her and older sister Venus as "brothers" were bullying, sexist and racist, and that she supported the one-year suspension imposed by the WTA against the official.
You can love without boundaries, right or wrong, girl or boy. I tell my story for Gwen Araujo, who no longer can
The ice cream company decided not to rename the flavor, a month after saying it would reconsider the name because of complaints by a hazing victim's parents.
The young visionary dreamed up a homemade headset that may transform everything from gaming to medical treatment to engineering — and beyond.
If golf is the go-to pastime for traditional business people, Ultimate Frisbee is the activity of choice for many in Silicon Valley. It has both a professional league and many devoted hobbyists.
While N64 music doesn't have the tell-tale 8 or 16-bit chiptune-ness that signifies most "video-game music" — the console's midi-like sounds and compressed quality dredge up similar feelings of nostalgia.
Now that nearly every song is as easy to find as any other, what are we music snobs to do?
One of the fastest-growing cosmetic procedures in the UK is repairing stretched earlobes.
How ceramic tiles could keep Indians from treating the streets as a urinal.
Boyan Slat is a 20-year-old on a mission — to rid the world's oceans of floating plastic. He has dedicated his teenage years to finding a way of collecting it. But can the system really work — and is there any point when so much new plastic waste is still flowing into the sea every day?
In 1918, President Wilson wanted sheep. But troubled lurked.
Did you know that Chinese consumers eat more meat, by calories, than Americans? Break down how nations chow down.
Shade. What is it? What is it not? Is it necessary? Recently, I have been troubled by the cavalier and largely incorrect ways that many have been using the term "shade." The same people who thought Miley Cyrus was good at twerking have helped dilute shade into pretty much any instance where one person insults another. Somebody must dedicate themselves to preserve the integrity of the definition of shade. And that somebody is me.
"SimCity," the classic PC game that makes mayors out of middle schoolers, turned 25 last week. Well, actually that’s a common misconception — the IBM version of "SimCity" was released in October of ‘89, but the original came out in February. I found this out from Will Wright, the game design guru behind "SimCity" and the genre of games it spawned, whose mental history of the legendary game is far more accurate than the Internet’s. “I think everybody just puts too much trust in Wikipedia,” he said.
The issue of online trolling is never too far away from public debate, but the UK government is gearing up to tackle the problem head-on by quadrupling the maximum sentence for those convicted of online abuse.
A look into the deep, dark, strangely complicated world of "Simpsons" mathematics.
It may not have been love as we know it, but around 385 million years ago, our very distant ancestors — armored fish called placoderms — developed the art of intercourse.
With the advent of Citizens United, any players with the wherewithal can start what are in essence their own political parties.
To impress upon you the importance of this occasion, an event like this has never taken place in the course of human history, and it's possible that we'll never see something like it again for a very long time.
As climate change jeopardizes the huge ocean claims of tiny nations, experts propose some bold legal solutions.
In an excerpt from his new book, "The Innovators," Walter Isaacson recounts the improbable story of the online encyclopedia that has proven its detractors wrong time and again.
You know how they say don't shop when you're hungry? You probably shouldn't do it while you're stoned either. Additionally, we're pleasantly surprised with BuzzFeed's foray into sketch comedy.
A man was arrested early Sunday at the Whitney Museum of American Art after he spray-painted graffiti on a blank wall at the Jeff Koons retrospective during a 36-hour event to close the popular exhibit.
Dismiss their heavenly gratitude if you must, but their motives may be less transparent and more purposeful than you realize.
Follow along from Ben Hemingway's point of view as he goes head-to-head with Andreas Lettenbichler for the city portion of Extreme XL de Lagares, the hard enduro race through the city of Portugal.
Mark Zuckerberg. Bill Gates. Steve Jobs. Most of the big names in technology are men. But a lot of computing pioneers, the ones who programmed the first digital computers, were women. And for decades, the number of women in computer science was growing. But in 1984, something changed. The number of women in computer science flattened, and then plunged.
Virginia police said human remains have been found during the search for Hannah Graham, the University of Virginia student who has been missing for more than a month.
The cruise ship carrying a Dallas hospital worker who had contact with lab samples of a man infected with Ebola docked in Galveston early this morning after a helicopter retrieved a blood sample from the woman Saturday.
America is the land of opportunity, just for some more than others.
Scottish soccer players Jim McAlister and Gary Harkins took a book out of wrestler Randy Orton's handbook when they celebrated a win the other night.
Nice job Phillips, this is a good ad. Can we get some historians in here to fact check some costumes and props?
From hypodermic needles to hallway ghosts, plus-size models to rockstar hopefuls, every room and resident in one Tinseltown tenement is almost famous.
North and South Korean troops briefly exchanged fire Sunday in the latest in a series of minor border skirmishes that have raised military tensions on the divided peninsula.
The Scrabble dictionary is getting an update. But it’s not going so well, and the world’s best players aren’t happy.
One writer waited five months for Soylent. Now she can't get rid of it.
Researchers find this sheet — a single molecule thick — produces electricity when flexed.
Nearly 1 million fewer people live in Manhattan now than a century ago. One reason: It got richer.
Two women narrate their ordeals. “You will hear of a wife murdered before you hear another one come forward.”