Self-harm now takes more lives than war, murder and natural diseases combined. Why are we killing ourselves and how can we stop it?
During the 2003 World Series of Poker, an amateur named Moneymaker turned $39 into $2.5 million and the poker boom was born.
Not every ad campaign is brilliant. In fact, a lot of them are terrible. These campaign proposals, however, are hilariously bad mainly because they are politically incorrect, insensitive, offensive or just in bad taste.
Ours is a planet and a time deeply shaped by one species -- us.
A cultural history of the dandy.
In sitcoms, a character told not to mention an uncomfortable fact will undoubtedly divulge it in conversation. Sometimes it feels as inevitable in real life. Is there something about trying not to say or do something that makes it more likely? According to Harvard professor David Wegner, the answer is yes.
It's a little bizarre to have someone looking into a camera and suggesting you be shot, even if he has no idea what I look like since he never showed up at the trial.
Who knew Levi's had an outlet on Tatooine? The iconic pair of jeans worn by Luke Skywalker throughout most of 1977's Star Wars film have been put up for auction.
You're a game programmer, working long, hard hours slaving over code for which your corporate overlords will likely not even give you the dignity of a credit. If they do, they’ll make you use some goofy-sounding nickname. So what do you do to exact revenge? You leave a little joke in the code.
What psychiatry’s new diagnostic manual means for people on the autism spectrum.
If a clip featuring the actor from a previous episode is used, that actor gets another $1,000.
A recent study has shown that gamers who wage battle against human-looking characters are more likely to experience aggressive thoughts and words than those facing monstrous nonhuman targets.
If you live in Moore, 99.99 percent of the time, there's no threat that you'll be killed by a tornado. How much is it worth to protect against that 0.01?
As the polymath engineers and scientists who work there are fond of saying, Google X is the search giant’s factory for moonshots, those million-to-one scientific bets that require generous amounts of capital, massive leaps of faith, and a willingness to break things.
Porn is the new Tumblr. It seems that everyone with a CS degree and a little free time is trying to cash in (or at least dabble) in the world of online sexuality, a happenstance that I’d chalk up to the ubiquity of boobies online and the potential for perceived riches. But what inspires a pair of designers and artists to create a site that essentially catalogs every NSFW GIF they can find?
Building the coolest toy in history based on the original patent isn't as hard as it sounds.
The search for a pill to give women a better sex life.
Canseco’s post-baseball career continues its spiral.
Just don't drop your knife.
When I stepped off the plane in Mexico I got that sinking feeling. My iPhone wasn't going to work.
Details are still emerging, but it appears that two men have been shot by the authorities after allegedly hacking a soldier to death with machetes in Britain.
Acid whey created during the production of Greek yogurt risks creating a new 'Dead Sea'.
Are consumers pushing for organic coffee inadvertently harming the environment?
When severe weather conditions developed over Oklahoma on May 20, NOAA's GOES-13 satellite was switched to opposed to the normal interval of 30 minutes.
Last night at the 17th Annual Webby Awards hosted by comedian Patton Oswalt, the stars showed up at New York's Cipriani Wall Street to celebrate the Internet and be celebrated themselves.
The US government’s price-fixing lawsuit against Apple goes to trial next month in New York. Ahead of its court date, the US released emails that purport to show Apple was the “ringleader” in a scheme to set artificially high ebook prices with some of the largest American publishers, which have already settled the case.
Everyone has heard about the working 3D printed gun. But now there are also 3D printed bullets.
In the previous "Fast & Furious" movie, the heroes managed to steal a room-sized safe with two tuned muscle cars. But could it actually be done in real life?
Panoramic images taken Tuesday are compared with the same locations before the storm from Google Maps’ Street View.
Cody Brown, of Scrollkit, made a replica of the ballyhooed New York Times "Snow Fall" story—in about an hour. Naturally, the Times made a copyright complaint.
A man with ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev allegedly confessed to a unsolved triple homicide before he was shot and killed after attacking an FBI agent.
If you're going into battle, you've got two wardrobe options: You can dress in something practical -- camouflage, body armor, boring shit like that -- or you can slap on a SpongeBob costume, paint your flamethrower bright pink, and hope the enemy is too confused and/or terrified to remember which end of their weapon is "kill."
Here are some bizarre facts that are actually true.
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