When biomedical engineer Robert Gorkin saw the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s 2013 call for submissions for a next-generation condom, he was hardly a contraceptive innovator. Rather, his work focused on 3D-printing organs and prosthetics. But when he reviewed the initiative’s goals — funding would be awarded to applicants who …
Read More »The Press Will Learn Nothing From the Russiagate Fiasco
On February 15, 2016, the National Review took unprecedented action. In an all-out plea to Republican voters to stop Donald Trump before it was too late, the magazine enlisted 22 of the right’s most prominent voices to band together and throw support elsewhere, to save the party. The “Conservatives Against …
Read More »Best of TheWeedTube, So You Can Celebrate 4/20 Right
YouTube often plays host to the dark side of human behavior: over the past few years, the platform has scrambled to remove footage of mass shootings, violent children’s videos, and comments’ sections that attracted pedophiles. But if there’s one thing YouTube apparently really can’t stand, it’s videos of people smoking …
Read More »Creedence Clearwater Revisited Talk Farewell Tour and Ignoring Their Critics
In the past few years, a growing number of classic-rock acts have announced farewell tours. The latest twist arrived last week, when Creedence Clearwater Revisited rolled out plans for their final live run, set to wrap up later this year. “We’re calling it ‘The Final Revival,’” says drummer Doug Clifford, …
Read More »Inside a White-Nationalist Cookout
Excerpted from the book Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power by Anna Merlan, published by Metropolitan Books. Copyright © 2019 by Anna Merlan. Reprinted with permission. Available for purchase here. “The white majority are fed up with all of these lying, cheating, thieving, war-mongering, …
Read More »Judge Rules Against 'Delusional' Bundy Clan Leader
The patriarch of the Bundy clan, whose sons staged the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016, has been laughed out of court by a Nevada judge who called the rancher’s claims about federal lands “simply delusional” and “fundamentally flawed.” Cliven Bundy is an infamous (his fans might …
Read More »How Anna Delvey Managed to Scam Her Way Into a $35,000 Charter Plane Ride
One of the most striking takeaways of the trial of Anna Delvey, née Sorokin, a.k.a. the “Soho Grifter,” the self-styled German “heiress” who is accused of bilking hotels and restaurants of hundreds of thousands of dollars, is just how easy it was for her to gain access to institutions that …
Read More »'Killing Eve' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Second Verse Same as the First
Killing Eve is back for Season Two. A review of the premiere, “Do You Know How to Dispose of a Body?”, coming up just as soon as I can bring myself to put on these Crocs… “Normal is boring. I’m not normal, you know.” -Villanelle As with Barry, there were …
Read More »'Warrior' Review: A Bruce Lee Vision Brought to Vivid Life
Among the more fascinating legends in the short but memorable life of Bruce Lee is the TV show the martial-arts icon pitched in the early Seventies about a Chinese immigrant traveling through America in the late-19th Century. The studio politely declined, the Lee family story goes, then stole key elements …
Read More »Beatlemania 2.0: The Making of 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand'
In February of 1964, you could see it everywhere you looked — in high school hallways, diners and malt shops, your local record store (definitely in your local record store). It started with a cold sweats and clammy palms; later symptoms also included screaming, swooning, heart palpitations, a burning desire …
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