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Groupon Exec Jumps Ship for Google

Adrian Chen · 09/23/11 04:07PM

Here's another sign, if one was needed, that Groupon is coming unhinged when it can least afford it: The company's COO, Margo Georgiadis, has jumped ship after just five short months for her old employer, Google.

Antimagnets, How Do They Work?

Hamilton Nolan · 09/23/11 04:05PM

Reverse magnets! Dog robot! Cramped fish! Hair story! Cell swallowing! Cool science! Space storm! Fake planets! And studying abuse reveals that everything she said was true! It's your Friday Science Watch, where we watch science—with soul!

This Week in Commenter Executions: Insane Laughter

Brian Moylan · 09/23/11 04:00PM

The only thing we love more than a good joke are the peals of laughter that follow it. Who doesn't want people to laugh at their jokes? This is difficult to convey over the internet, though.

Muslim Students Convicted of Being Mean to Israeli Ambassador

John Cook · 09/23/11 03:39PM

Last year, when Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren announced his intention to speak at the University of California at Irvine, some members of the school's Muslim Students Union plotted to inform Oren of their feelings about some of Israel's policies. They used their voices to do so. This is illegal!

How a 14-Year-Old Girl Became an Unwilling Internet Pin-Up

Adrian Chen · 09/23/11 03:03PM

A particularly gross genre of Internet erotica has sprung up around alluring self-pictures of underage girls found on social media sites. But did you know there are actual people with real lives in those pictures? Meet Miami teen Angie Varona, whose life was turned upside down when she became an online sex symbol.

Weekend: The Best Damn Romantic Movie in a Long Time

Brian Moylan · 09/23/11 02:26PM

We're so trained to watch romantic movies that are of the dreaded rom-com variety—with its silly conventions, outlandish plots, and preternaturally good-looking people—that seeing something that is familiar and real is not only shocking and disorienting, but really rewarding. Weekend is a movie just like that.

Jersey Shore: Blood on the Cobblestones

Brian Moylan · 09/23/11 01:00PM

In the latest dispatch from the eight guidos in the most important sociological experiment of our time, there was an arrival and a departure, a reunion and break up, a prank and a fight, and one woman tottering around on high heels over the cobblestones. Shit got absolutely Shakespearean.

Bankrupt Solyndra Executives Take the Fifth

John Cook · 09/23/11 12:34PM

The chief executive and chief financial officers of Solyndra, the California solar panel manufacturer that took a half-billion dollars in federal loan guarantees in 2009 and promptly went bankrupt, leaving taxpayers on the hook, were given an opportunity to explain themselves today before a congressional committee today. They took the Fifth.

Is the Double Dip Here?

Hamilton Nolan · 09/23/11 12:18PM

Help us out here, economists. Make yourselves useful. Is this what the second dip of a Double Dip Recession feels like? I mean, we do have that nauseating sinking feeling. But we've had that for a few years now.

Slurring Semi-Famous Actress Publicly Implodes While Delivering Live Speech

Brian Moylan · 09/23/11 11:25AM

Kim Delaney, of NYPD Blue and Army Wives "fame", was giving a "speech" at the National Constitution Center to honor former defense secretary Robert Gates yesterday. Well, she showed up looking a mess and barely making sense while she tried to read the speech off a teleprompter. Oh, and it was on live TV.

Lindsay Lohan Confronts Her Boyfriend's Wife and Causes a Scene

Maureen O'Connor · 09/23/11 10:45AM

LiLo "rudely confronts" her millionaire boyfriend's wife. Did Queen Latifah leave her girlfriend for someone new? George Clooney reminisces on his youth as a farmhand. Shaq and Will Smith go to the Cheesecake Factory. TGIFriday gossip.

Which Actress Hooked Up with a Homeless Guy?

Brian Moylan · 09/23/11 10:09AM

This celeb got wasted in a bar and hit on every guy who came in, including the one who lived in the back alley. The actress known as the "Director's Wife" flipped out in an interview when questioned about the blind items that dog her. It could be worse—at least that first item isn't about her.