If you’re horrified by the prospect of eating food containing genes that were altered by some industrial food giant, Chipotle will tell you what’s what in its ingredients. Just don’t expect to be eating much that’s on the menu.
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write.
The only excerpt from Questlove's book that you need to read.
This guy was clearly raised by a clan of ninja maids or something.
How the world's only known white gorilla came to be.
Yesterday, Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano experienced a powerful explosion as the top “popped off” to relieve the pressure within. A webcam pointed at the peak was able to capture the whole thing, and the video above shows what the explosion and resulting shockwave look like in time-lapse.
"I'm not blaming the girl, but if you're a 16-year-old and you're drunk like that, your parents should teach you: don't take drinks from other people. She's 16, why was she that drunk where she doesn't remember? It could have been much worse. She's lucky."
Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles. He was 33.
Tree Tuesday is the meme that’s taking Google+ by storm.
In 2004, Canada made it a criminal offense to compensate sperm and egg donors. - See more at.
New reports link the sleep medication to a spate of E.R. visits for hallucinations, agitation, and sleep-walking, among other complaints. But it also helps a lot of people. What's to know?
Nate Weiner turned down millions from Evernote to stay independent — but how big a business can you build off a bookmarklet?
Here's how not to be a total, blundering idiot at the grill and in the kitchen.
A Texas congressman who was choking on a piece of popcorn is thanking a fellow Republican from Arizona and a House staffer who is also a doctor for stepping in to help.
Today marks Julian Assange's 365th day at the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge, London. Tomorrow, June 19th, is the anniversary of his arrival.
Let this map of U.S. states scaled by volume above sea level guide you to your water-damaged, dystopian home of the future.
India is the last country with regular telegraph service. And the final message will be sent next month.
Did the government really disrupt a bomb plot targeting the New York Stock Exchange?
It took 10 years and an elite unit from America's navy seals to hunt down Osama bin Laden. Now the technology used to track the most elusive terrorist in history is at the centre of another top mission to help to enhance the life of cakes in British bakeries.
Somalia—once a hotbed of piratical unrest—is quickly losing its title to Nigeria.
Being buried alive is usually near the top of any worst-ways-to-die list. But how about being buried alive 100 feet below the ocean surface in a tiny pocket of air?
Since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the government’s surveillance programs have helped thwart a terrorist attack in over 50 instances, according to Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency. The intelligence community has decided to disclose four of these cases.
Congratulations! Your favorite sports team just won a championship. So how much is that shiny trophy worth?
We're too stunned to actually find out what the story is behind these photos.
Would you like to eat rat poison? Probably not, but that’s OK, because you’ve eaten it already. Most milk in the United States has rat poison added to it.
"I have to ask, Mr. Miyamoto, you said you have made a bad game. What was the bad game you made?"
JPEG image compression is lossy. Every time you edit and save a picture, some of the original content is lost. But it's difficult to see that with the naked eye, so I compressed Shakespeare instead.
Mad Men's non-consensual encounter on between a young, frightened Dick Whitman and a prostitute didn't generate as much chatter as its gender-reversed scenario might have. Why?
Is it actually less expensive to stay at an Airbnb than a hotel? Can you rent an entire apartment for less than the cost of a hotel? We suspected that Airbnb rentals are less expensive than hotels, but are they really?
In general, men don’t know how to text. We’re slow learners. Even though we’re a full decade into the Texting Revolution, our tiny missives are sometimes rude, sometimes girly, and always confusing.
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