When Facebook started to plan the Facebook West building, a 433,555-square-foot complex across the road from its current headquarters, the company was looking for anonymity. So they employed the always understated, subtle, visually legible, little known architect of humble homes Frank Gehry.

Used, to be, when people got old, put em in a depressing nightmarish concrete block hospital warehouse. Pretty soon they'd die. Well, things—as things will do—are changing. These days, modern senior citizens want the option of doing stuff, before they die.

The most important question on the internet is finally answered: Why do nerds wear fedoras?

A middle-school teacher in Virginia says she had no clue she was being slowly poisoned with hand sanitizer that was being surreptitiously added to her tea by two of her students, but says she has been feeling ill for some time.

As you experience the seasons, if you live in a place with such things, the greenery tends to adapt and change with the temperature and climate. Sometimes there are delightful little flowers, sometimes there is withering heat, sometimes there is crazy snow and you can make fun little shelters and play in the street. You can usually only experience one of these phenomena at a time, because Mother Nature wants you to dole out your appreciation.

NPR is ending the call-in show Talk of the Nation and encouraging stations to replace it with newsmagazine Here and Now.

David Brooks, a clumsy amateur sociologist who has improbably turned a talent for adjusting his glasses in a wise-looking manner into a gig as a nationally respected opinion columnist, is a busy man. He's teaching a class at Yale, okay? He can't be expected to come up with his own ideas every single week. Today, he hit on a novel solution to his quandary: just have one of his students write his column! You can hardly tell the difference.

The overworked and poisoned bee slaves that pollinate the almonds for your vegan milk are still dying en masse.

Chick-fil-A and its president/COO Dan Cathy have gone out of their way several times to make it clear that they stand in direct opposition to the wave of equality sweeping the nation, namely in matters of marriage.

A video that began circulating late yesterday claiming to show leading member of the Westboro Baptist Church David Phelps, supposedly the son of cult founder Fred Phelps, being ambushed by an obese, birthday-suited Seattle rapper named Billy the Fridge quickly went viral because, well, who doesn't want to see that?

Richard Griffiths, who played Uncle Monty in Withnail and I and Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter movies, has died.

Following a joint South Korea-U.S. stealth bomber practice mission, North Korea announced that it's pointing its rockets at the U.S. and putting them on standby, and a state news photo seems to show its main targets: Hawaii, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and, uh... Austin. (Just a few weeks too late, Un!) NKNews.org points out that this photo, released in state media organ Rodong Sinmun, features a large map conspicuously labelled, "U.S. Mainland Strike Plan"; a close examination of the map shows vectors pointed toward Hawaii, D.C., L.A.... and, as far as anyone can tell, Austin.

In an interview with local radio station KRBD, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) recalled his father's ranch and the old fashioned way things were done on it. Fair enough, right? Well, yes. Aside from the racial slur Young used to describe workers on the ranch.

While Bill Gates was offering a small fortune for a condom that "feels good," the bro-y entrepreneurs at J & D's were busy creating a condom that tastes like bacon. What's more, the condoms feature something called "baconlube." If you have any concerns about the quality of these condoms or questions about what exactly "baconlube" is, here you go:

Kim Jong-un ordered North Korea's rocket units to be on standby to attack U.S. bases in South Korea and the Pacific.

Mississippi's governor nominated an anti-abortion lobbyist with "no medical background" to the state's Board of Health.

Just months after after a crooked Canadian cop was busted for cheese smuggling, an Illinois man was arrested for allegedly stealing 21 tons of Muenster from a Wisconsin cheese company. The man, Veniamin Balika, 34, then did the reasonable thing and attempted to sell the 42,000 pounds of cheese at a rest stop off the New Jersey turnpike.

Poor Kate Middleton. A couple years ago, she married a guy she met in college and thought her life was really on track. She quit her job as an assistant buyer for Party Pieces ("What a great piece to have at a party. We'll take three, please.") because her husband said he could support their family on his pilot's salary. She got herself a dog so she'd have someone to keep her company while he was away, in the sky. She began purchasing armfuls of miniature hats to give her life whimsy.

Following a successful fan-driven fundraising campaign on the website Kickstarter, actress Kristen Bell's child finally consented to begin production on her life by being born Thursday.

Every morning at 9:05 AM sharp, a strikingly dapper octogenarian saunters by Zoe Spawton's coffee shop on his way to work in the Berlin borough of Neukölln.