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Antimagnets, How Do They Work?
Hamilton Nolan · 09/23/11 04:05PMReverse 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 04:00PMMuslim Students Convicted of Being Mean to Israeli Ambassador
John Cook · 09/23/11 03:39PMRick Santorum Thanks Gay Soldier for His Service, Many Hours Later
Jim Newell · 09/23/11 03:14PMHow 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.
Lose Your Keys? It Was Probably a Russian Spy
John Cook · 09/23/11 02:12PMMan's Dolphin Sex Memoir Suddenly Very Popular
Maureen O'Connor · 09/23/11 02:01PMJersey Shore: Blood on the Cobblestones
Brian Moylan · 09/23/11 01:00PMBankrupt 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 12:18PMBristol Palin Bar Fight: 'You're a Homosexual, I Can Tell You Are'
Maureen O'Connor · 09/23/11 11:33AMWhat Was Rick Perry Babbling About All of Last Night?
Jim Newell · 09/23/11 11:31AMWhy does Rick Perry actually do to prepare for his debates? He should prepare more, because he's terrible at them.
Slurring Semi-Famous Actress Publicly Implodes While Delivering Live Speech
Brian Moylan · 09/23/11 11:25AMKim 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.











