Hot Eligible Bachelor Rupert Murdoch Buys New $57 Million Fuck Pad

Adam Weinstein · 02/21/14 03:01PM

It's been three months since Fox media mogul Rupert Murdoch slipped the surly bonds of matrimonial discord with Wendi Deng, ceding her custody of their two children and Fifth Avenue triplex. Lesser men might buckle under the ennui now. Murdoch bought a sick fucking condo.

Fat Fatties Only Exercise Like an Hour a Year, Says Science

Adam Weinstein · 02/21/14 02:25PM

America, you're bulbous. Which is cool, if that's cool with you! The thing is, you're lazy as all get-up, too, and we have data to prove it: Obese women get one hour per year of exercise, and obese men get less than four hours. "They're living their lives from one chair to another," says a judgey researcher.

Zen Koans Explained: "The Dead Man's Answer"

Hamilton Nolan · 02/21/14 02:12PM

Come closer. Closer now. Look into my eyes. Look very deeply. In the very depths of their blackness, you will see: a tiny monkey. How was that? Did that sound zen? Cause I can tweak it however you guys want it.

Adam Weinstein · 02/21/14 01:27PM

Florida man "shoots himself in leg after leaving gun safety class" because Florida, man.

Baltimore Is One Step Closer to Being a Zero-Newspaper Town

Tom Scocca · 02/21/14 01:03PM

It's not even possible to get mad at the Baltimore Sun now. The Baltimore Sun is a nursing home where newspapering goes to die, or to sink into terminal urine-soaked frailty and confusion. Yesterday it announced it had received the commitment papers for City Paper, the city's alternative weekly, b. 1977 – d. TK But Soon.

What a Pretty Killing Machine You Have There, Miyazki: The Wind Rises

Rich Juzwiak · 02/21/14 12:32PM

It is a particular treat to see a Hayao Miyazaki movie on the big screen, and the Japanese animator's latest is no exception. The Wind Rises is as gorgeous as any Studio Ghibli production, crisp and pastel, soothing and stunning. Rife with dream sequences of impossibly layered aircraft against perfect skies dolloped with clouds, Rises reaches the fantastical imaginative heights we've come to expect from Miyazki. And when it isn't wowing you with what you've never seen before, it's wowing you with what you have. There's so much pleasure to be taken from the tiny details that the big screen amplifies: the moths that flock around an outside lantern, the incandescent halo of the moon shining through translucent nighttime clouds, the wildly unnatural colors that sneak in and out of the sky during the final moments of daylight.

How to Make a Hedge Fund Ad

Hamilton Nolan · 02/21/14 12:09PM

Hedge funds, sophisticated financial vehicles using strategies that can—whether the market is up or down—enrich hedge fund managers, are now allowed to advertise to the public. Problem: they suck at it. Can we help them?

Antiviral: Here's What's Bullshit on the Internet This Week

Adrienne LaFrance · 02/21/14 11:56AM

Here's a fun fact: 60 percent of all stories on the internet are created in a Hollywood studio by Jimmy Kimmel. Sorry, no, that's a lie—just like the little boy crossing the desert, the the sad Putin hockey photo, and the wolf in the Sochi hotel room. All of these stories took over the internet this week, and all of them were misleading—or outright bullshit.

Max Read · 02/21/14 11:55AM

Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych has, with three members of the opposition, signed an accord aimed at ending the violent protests in Kiev. Soon after, the Ukranian parliament voted to allow the release of jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/21/14 11:01AM

[Competitors in the women's ski cross small final, from left, Switzerland's Fanny Smith, Australia's Katya Crema, Austria's Katrin Ofner, and Sweden's Sandra Naeslund take the final jump at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Friday. Image via Andy Wong/AP.]

Tom Scocca · 02/21/14 10:38AM

Who will fight the fire when the firetruck catches on fire? The firefighters from the firetruck (plus three more trucks and engines), with fire extinguishers. "This is one of these things you always hear about, but don't expect to happen," deputy fire chief Kurt Gerfin of Schenectady told the Daily Gazette.

India's Rural Rape Problem

Hamilton Nolan · 02/21/14 10:12AM

As India wends its way from Third World to First World, it is useful to remember that it is an enormously diverse nation that contains not only tech companies celebrated by Tom Friedman, but also swaths of backwards countryside where rape is a common quasi-legal punishment.

Max Read · 02/21/14 08:59AM

[Rob Ford, celebrating the Canadian women's hockey team's overtime gold-medal win yesterday.]