Smoking Trashes Your Genes in Minutes

Max Read · 01/17/11 01:02AM

A new study has found that smoking a cigarette can cause genetic damage within minutes—so quickly it's "equivalent to injecting [pollutants] directly into the bloodstream." But, obviously, injecting terrible chemicals directly into your bloodstream won't make you cool.

Real Housewives of Atlanta: Catfight!

Alison Flood · 01/17/11 12:23AM

Kim and Kandi are on tour, so some inevitable drama happened when NeNe met the crew in Florida and one of the noisiest fights on this season of Real Housewives of Atlanta erupted. Watch it all go down inside.

Robert De Niro Tries, and Fails, to Be Funny at the Golden Globes

Matt Cherette · 01/16/11 10:31PM

Veteran actor Robert De Niro received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at tonight's Golden Globes. It was quite. His awkward, rambling, try-hard acceptance speech—during which he made several off-color jokes, like a drunk uncle—was not.

We Could Have Real-Live Mammoths in 2015

Max Read · 01/16/11 10:12PM

A Japanese scientist says he can clone a real, actual woolly mammoth sometime within the next "four or five years." Did they not ever release Jurassic Park in Japan, or what?

Blood on the Carpet: Highlights of Golden Globe Fashion

Richard Lawson · 01/16/11 09:05PM

Tonight the stars strode the red carpet dressed in their finest, while us commoners admired their fancy adornments and luxurious fabrics. Here is a sampling of the best and worst of their garmentry.

Matt Braunger on Morrissey Fans

Whitney Jefferson · 01/16/11 09:00PM

Matt Braunger doesn't know where he fits in with the world because he lifts weights to the music of The Smiths. Who knew that hard core gangsters in Los Angeles like them, too?

Acid-Tripping Housewife Can 'See All the Molecules'

Max Read · 01/16/11 08:44PM

As every college student knows, there is almost nothing funnier than watching a person try to narrate her acid trips. Especially when that person is a housewife in the year 1956. As she says, "I can see all the molecules!"

Watch Ricky Gervais' Extremely Uncomfortable Golden Globes Monologue

Matt Cherette · 01/16/11 08:23PM

Holy wow. Ricky Gervais, the host of tonight's Golden Globes, just opened the show with one of the most unrelentingly harsh and uncomfortable monologues in awards show history—there was even a Tom Cruise/John Travolta gay joke! Watch inside.