Disney, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. Entertainment are suing a video streaming site that lets home viewers tailor Hollywood movies to their personal moral standards.
Pope Francis criticized society’s quest for superficial perfection on Sunday (June 12), saying that the drive for perfect bodies marginalized those who may not fit those standards.
As has become commonplace after incidents of gun violence in the US, lawmakers took to Twitter today to express condolences for the victims of the deadly shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
Public health officials in Orlando, Florida are calling for blood donations after the deadly nightclub shooting that claimed an estimated 50 lives.
This year’s El Niño, the phenomenon caused when sea surface temperatures rise in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, was predicted to be the biggest in recorded history. Writers (including, um, this one) forecast consequences including apocalyptic amounts of rain in California.
The giraffe tends to appear in parents’ lives sometime around the birth of a first child. It’s 7.5 inches tall, squeaky, and vaguely vanilla-scented. Its pupil-less eyes have the same blank, dazed expression newborns might recognize in the sleep-deprived parents dangling the toy above their crib.
Set aside, a moment, the question of how many delegates Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders won in today’s California primary in California for a moment. One of the most important takeaways from the contest is how Republicans have completely lost their grip in the nation’s most populous state.
In 1998, California forbade shelters from euthanizing animals in gas chambers, calling the practice unnecessarily cruel. But the poorly-written law mentioned only carbon monoxide gas in publicly-funded shelters, unwittingly exempting the use of carbon dioxide.
Caregivers at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo have finally settled on a name for the new baby Bactrian camel born there last month.
Texting while driving is illegal in 46 US states. Drivers on cell phones killed 404 people in the US in 2014, the most recent year for which statistics are available. They’ve faced jail time and lawsuits for their reckless behavior.
Here’s a unique way for your smartphone to undermine your health. A new app scans social media to determine when life might bumming you and your friends out and sends you a coupon for cheap sugary snacks.
The Strategic Automated Command and Control System transmits orders and coordinates information across the US nuclear missile system. It does so using technology that became obsolete during the Reagan administration.
The National Rifle Association’s new ad campaign is a series of one-minute testimonials from gun rights proponents. Alongside a clip in which NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre describes Western Europe as a place where people must defend themselves using “rolling pins and broom handles” is country music legend Charlie Daniels speaking directly to the ayatollahs of Iran.
Mating. It’s a messy and time-consuming business. But at the moment, sexual reproduction is nature’s only option for those of us who want to pass on our genetic material with any degree of success.
A century before the birth of Twitter, Albert Einstein issued the best advice to date on how to engage with trash-talkers: just don’t.
Say I pass a volunteer who’s collecting for a worthy cause. Do I donate? Hard to say. I give on some occasions. But on plenty of others, I skip the charity box and keep my money for selfish ends. Altruism-wise, I’m not so different from other people.
Despite the threat of devastating earthquakes in the US, the states most at risk have been incredibly slow to back a nascent warning system that could save thousands of lives. There was a breakthrough this week when California Gov. Jerry Brown committed $10 million dollars to ShakeAlert, the US Geological Survey’s warning system.
A new super PAC aiming to defeat Hillary Clinton has set itself a tough goal: rallying support among potential swing-state voters who don’t watch TV, don’t use the Internet, and prefer not to participate in mainstream politics at all.
Humans are so dependent on smartphones and GPS that it’s shriveling our brains. Not so for the ball-rolling dung beetle.
You first spied each other at the library, or the indie bookstore, or over a rack of yellowing hardcovers at a second-hand store. The attraction is undeniable. It’s time to make a move. Entice your beloved by smelling like the thing he or she most desires. Make yourself smell like a book.
The photograph above is of the unofficial refugee settlement on the outskirts of Calais, France, known widely as “the Jungle.” It was taken by Rosalind Ereira, founder of the UK-based advocacy group Solidarity With Refugees.
Ten years ago this week, a man named Guy Goma walked into the London offices of the BBC to interview for a job in the broadcaster’s IT department.
The anesthetic ketamine produces a trippy, dissociative sensation that’s made it a popular recreational drug on the club scene, where it’s better known as Special K. It also has an interesting side effect: the drug seems to rapidly improve symptoms in people with severe depression. Clinics have sprung up around the US to administer the drug in low doses, even though it’s not approved by the FDA as an anti-depressant.
The most ardent Star Trek fans go so far as to make their own versions of the classic movies—but not without legal risks. Last year Paramount Pictures and CBS hit the makers of a Kickstarter-funded film with a lawsuit. They claimed that Prelude to Axanar, a 2014 short, and its planned full-length sequel Axanar infringe on copyrighted Star Trek characters and themes.
