Bob Pittman

gawker.com · 11/16/10 06:00AM

Who: Once a high-flying media mogul—he was one of the founders of MTV and later served as the No. 3 at AOL Time Warner—these days Pittman spends his time investing in Internet start-ups as the founder of the Pilot Group.

Godzilla-Eye View

Max Read · 11/16/10 04:04AM

[Clouds over the Tokyo Tower on Monday evening. Photo via AP.]

Overweight People Better at Smelling Food

Max Read · 11/16/10 03:43AM

According to a new study, overweight people have "far heightened" senses of smell for food compared with people who aren't overweight—in particular after eating a full meal. Science: Making the mean joke so you don't have to!

Castle Goes X-Files and Gets Abducted by Aliens

Emily Chen · 11/16/10 12:10AM

Castle and Beckett become true believers while investigating the murder of an astrophysicist who seems to have died in space. Unfortunately, when they start digging a little too deep, it's not only their murder victim that gets an otherworldly visit.

Jon Stewart's Harshest John McCain Critique Yet

Matt Cherette · 11/15/10 11:40PM

Tonight, Jon Stewart spent a few minutes discussing, in detail, just how ridiculous and archaic—not to mention ever-evolving—John McCain's stance on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is, marking Stewart's harshest critique yet of McCain's increasingly indefensible views. Watch inside.

Nancy Botwin is all Win on Weeds

Alison Flood · 11/15/10 11:24PM

This was possibly the best episode of Weeds in two years. We saw the return of Esteban and Guillermo, a resolve to story-lines that have been dragging on for two seasons, and finally got a little bit of closure.

This Is Not How to Make an Entrance at a Wedding

Matt Cherette · 11/15/10 09:01PM

Remember "JK Wedding Entrance Dance," the viral video set to Chris Brown's song, "Forever," with almost 60 million YouTube views (see it here)? These people tried to recreate it—let's just say it didn't turn out so well.

Watch the Sun Set on Mars

Max Read · 11/15/10 09:00PM

Here's a video of a sunset on Mars, assembled from photographs taken by the Mars rover Opportunity. Mars! You know that funny feeling you get, when you think about how small Earth is, and how big the universe it? Yeah.

Russell Peters on Stereotypes

Ruhi Shamim · 11/15/10 09:00PM

Russell Peters blames the media for what's going wrong in the world by brainwashing people to believe stereotypes. Why? Well, because we wanna see the crazies!