Dying To Be Free
There’s a treatment for heroin addiction that actually works. Why aren't we using it?
There’s a treatment for heroin addiction that actually works. Why aren't we using it?
Every day it seems like there’s some crazy new kind of coffee we’re supposed to be drinking that comes out of a monkey’s anus or an elephant’s snout or a kangaroo’s pouch or something. Honestly, keeping up with coffee trends is exhausting. That’s why we just have Moustache Coffee Club send us the best stuff out there, no hassle, no animal orifices. If you like coffee, you should try them for free.
Lynch may be alone in his actions at the moment, but it seems fairly clear that in following the letter of the NFL's law — showing up to the press conference, and verbalizing an answer to a question — he's demonstrating that he, not Roger Goodell or anyone else, controls the conditions of his labor.
Comcast probably doesn’t relish being one of those companies that many Americans love to hate. But sometimes, the cable giant makes this way too easy.
“This” is a social network, This.cm, which allows users to post one link a day, with the intent of sifting through the Internet noise and focusing attention on a standout news article, blog post or podcast.
Blowing glass is impressive, but these sculptures which look like crystals trapped in glass can take as long as 18 weeks each.
A large number of flowering American plants produce fruits too large or too tough for any native animal to bother with, and botanists have worried about this for years.
A daily combination of peanut protein and a probiotic helped 80 percent of children in a new study.
The c-suite at McDonald’s just got shaken up like a McFlurry.
It's hard to say where the craze for a humanized digital assistant came from. Regardless of when the idea was born, today it just seems natural to expect your tech's voice to have a personality, a name, and even some kind of fictional backstory.
DJ Esco's Amsterdam birthday celebration ended with an IRL nightmare. Here's what it's like to get locked up in the UAE.
Wonder who it's from? Us! And it's an email filled with the best of Digg.
This dog quickly jumped in the lake after it thought its owner was drowning in a heartwarming show of care and compassion. Also: don't fool your dogs like this!!
"What’s even more striking about Williams is that she truly is a student of comedy who claims influences as diverse as Gilda Radner (well, sort of) to Cheri Oteri to, yes, Lily Tomlin. But, as an African American woman in late night comedy, she’s aware of the hurdles – she has interesting thoughts on 'SNL' (a show she adores) and the Internet’s initial reaction to her being cast on 'The Daily Show.'"
In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram's electric-shock studies showed that people will obey even the most abhorrent of orders. But recently, researchers have begin to question his conclusions — and offer some of their own.
Yitang Zhang solves a pure-math mystery.
Year in and year out, just a little bit at a time, kickers get better. And better. And better. Until the game is completely different, and no one even noticed that kickers were one of the main reasons why.
Using an innovative non-invasive photographic technique, European researchers have managed to locate and map the extensive set of tattoos on the exquisitely preserved remains of Ötzi the Iceman. Remarkably, they even found a previously unknown tattoo on his ribcage.
The king of canned plant products is the canned tomato. Tomatoes are the ideal use case for canning: a product with a very minimal harvest time is picked at its peak and preserved, so I use canned tomatoes ten months a year, happily.
His spirit roams the internet throughout niche video game forums. His day-to-day tweets call forth daily happenings. But he's all but disappeared from the gaming industry. Osamu Sato may as well be a ghost.
Let me get this out of the way: I love both going to the club (dancing and music are great!) and dudes (they're so cute!). But dudes absolutely ruin the club.
In the 19th century, a scandal involving sex and murder at a Rome convent ensnared practically every major player in the Catholic Church hierarchy.
On the same day it released its 2015 Super Bowl ad online, GoDaddy quickly responded to a wave of criticism from dog advocates and said it would not air the spot on the game.
Economists check the claim that a thirst for oil motivates interventions in civil wars, and they find out it's right.
Let us be the first to ask the question, "They're still doing this bit?" The answer is yes and surprisingly, these two still manage to make us laugh with an increasingly absurd roster of fake players. Wait...are these fake players?
Three-quarters of the world's homes have a fridge — an appliance that can revolutionize a family's life. A tailor in one Indian village has just become the first person in his community to own one — something he has dreamed of for 10 years.
You shouldn’t worry because even though you suck at your job, and you fuck up all the time, and your boss wants you gone, you aren’t going to get fired. Because it’s really hard to fire someone at work.
He was America's most beloved deejay, the unmistakable voice who created 'American top 40' and rose to fame on the schmaltzy but irresistible charm of his "long-distance dedications." all of which makes the tabloid circumstances of his demise — an epic family feud waged in streets, courtrooms, and funeral homes from L.A. to Oslo — even more surreal.
Mada Masr was formed just before military coup of 2013. Amid growing censorship, its staff have risked their lives to continue reporting. Can they stay true to their mission?
Every year at about this time, freelancers are inundated with Form 1099 so they can report their income to the IRS. But what if one you were expecting never arrives? Forbes' advice: Don't ask for one.
Airpnp is the worst-designed app I’ve ever used. It’s also the most profound.
The origin story of Homo sapiens is told piecewise through archaeological finds and scientific analysis, all of which amounts to us using that data to try and connect the dots.
Because in a virtual world, why should you only have two?
For most of the last two seasons, the Seattle Seahawks have been the most physically prepared team in the NFL, a collection of perfectly honed athletes that can outrun and outmuscle opponents at will. The Seahawks’ secret weapon, though, just might be the team’s willingness to give a sports psychologist the freedom to roam the training facility, locker room and even the sidelines every game, to make sure their heads are as sound as their bodies.
If you want to understand the impossible bind in which the makers of serious historical dramas now find themselves, consider two headlines, both alike in indignity, and both used to bludgeon Ava DuVernay’s film "Selma" for its departures from historical fact. “Not Just a Movie,” columnist Maureen Dowd declared in the New York Times. “That’s Just Not True,” admonished historian Julian Zelizer in Salon.
A history of credit cards, late payments, defaults, and living beyond my means. How I got there — and how I’m getting out.
By the time we thought about leaving Afghanistan, we’d been tossing gear into the country for more than a decade. This is the story of how we moved out.
When huge swaths of your state are apparently, 1600 degrees or more, this man maintains his professionalism and composure.
Swift has trademarked everything from "public appearances" and "clothing" to "ornaments" under the phrase "This Sick Beat" which comes from the first single to her album 1989 "Shake it Off."
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, whose anti-austerity Syriza party won last weekend’s Greek election, named his cabinet on Tuesday and Valve Corporation’s in-house economist Yanis Varoufakis is its finance minister. Gone are the days of Valve’s anarcho-syndicalism: he now answers to the Greek government and, to a degree, the European Union.
How did an ex-feminist once hailed by Gloria Steinem become a hero of the haters?
Art, commerce, and the battle for the soul of "My Little Pony."
Call us bitter, but we're not too keen on the workplace/school choreographed lip-synch of whatever the most popular song of the hour is. Admittedly, teacher Scot Pankey has some moves.
Mariani is the only human cannonball in the country, and has been performing the trick since 2010. He’s flown through the air some 1,200 times since then. Though he makes it seem routine, the dangers are endless.
What would "A Good Manchego Is Hard To Find" or a "Kales From The Crypt" burger taste like? Cole Bowden, an engineer for Honda, couldn't help wondering. So like any good engineer, he started tinkering — in the kitchen, turning the show writers' culinary jokes into real recipes.
In North America, the Canadians have long had to play country mouse to the flashier city mouse of the U.S. It’s the latter that gets all the attention, while the former sits quietly in a corner .But recent stories have shown just how big a player the Canadians are becoming — at least in the surveillance realm.
We know nothing of the circumstances that led up to the fight, but we do know that it concluded with Francesco Griffo apparently beating Aldus Manutius to death with a metal bar.
Moments before Oculus Story Studio's new virtual reality short "Lost" reached its satisfying climax, I found myself in a compromised position. Sequestered in a private demo booth, I was involuntarily crouched down, covering my head in a defensive position and, I should add, squealing with delight.
This is the first ad addressing domestic violence and sexual assault during the Super Bowl. And since most people watch for the commercials anyway, let's hope this gets the message across.
A glimpse inside a shady world that offers $250 college diplomas, fake transcripts, and the subtle promise of a brighter future.
Time is running out for Jay Leno to reunite with David Letterman in late night — and right now the ball is in Leno's court. According to sources inside "Late Show with David Letterman," the program has reached out to Leno about coming on as a guest before Letterman departs CBS on May 20.
Marshawn Lynch might get fined by NFL for wearing "BeastMode" hat at Super Bowl media day, sources say.
"Grim Fandango" survived for 15 years on a mess of ancient storage devices that are about as easy to access today as eight-track tapes.
Guns and psychosis don’t cause mass shootings. Instead, pop culture acts on our instincts to drive us to extremes.
I’ve seen a lot of bizarre things in Karachi, but on a Sunday morning, as I watch a cockfight on the front lawn of a friend’s house, I’m convinced that this may be my most surreal experience yet.
Sure, why not.
On a recent Wednesday, my friend Annie went on her first date with a man she met through SeekingArrangement.com, the self-proclaimed “leading Sugar Daddy dating site.”
Moscow’s alleged spy ring in New York City sometimes took orders from a Kremlin-run news outfit. Talk about media bias.
Obama's nominee to succeed Eric Holder as attorney general testifies before a Republican-stacked Senate committee.
It's time for 21st-century campaign finance reform: No limits, instant disclosure.
The silky sounds of Sinatra and weighty wordlessness of male bonding echo among three generations of my Italian-American family.