You know how when you're on a diet, you're not supposed to think about food? A new study indicates that imagining yourself eating a specific food means you'll eat less of that food in real life. So start imagining.

David Epstein, 46, a political science professor at Columbia University, was arrested and charged with a single felony count of incest on Wednesday. He was reportedly engaged in a three-year-long consensual sexual relationship with his 24-year-old daughter.

By now you've heard about how the shadowy collective Anonymous is launching cyberattacks—"Operation Payback"—against perceived enemies of Wikileaks, including PayPal, Amazon and MasterCard. But you've probably heard wrong. Let us debunk three commonly-held myths about Anonymous.

33-year-old swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay has been identified as the woman found dead in a bathtub at Manhattan's posh Soho House hotel. Just hours before her body was discovered she dumped her boyfriend, the privileged son of an Oscar-winning composer.

Of the Wikileaks cache of diplomatic cables, one of the most potentially salacious is about the entertainment at a party thrown by DynCorp, a U.S. contractor training Afghan police, in April 2009. A 17-year-old boy was hired to dance.

Watch out, England and Israel: It appears as though our most notorious American grifter, Sarah Palin, is heading your way in the new year. At the very least, lock up your good jewelry.

Distributed denial of service attacks, of the kind pro-Wikileaks hacktivists have been aiming at PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard, are not particularly complex to pull off.

The publisher and ghostwriter of Real Housewife of New Jersey Danielle Staub's memoir, The Naked Truth, are being sued by Staub's ex-husband, Kevin Maher. The lawsuit claims that Simon & Schuster and the author defamed Maher by calling him abusive.

First Baptist Church—a Dallas megachurch with a pastor who calls Islam an "evil, evil religion"—want everyone to have a Merry Christmas. They want it so badly, they're public shaming businesses that don't say "Merry Christmas" to customers.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg tells Katie Couric that he's "not going to run for president," and there's "nothing" that could make him. "Period. End of story." That's pretty definitive, so... the media will have to keep asking him!

Hot-body actor Ryan Phillippe is selling his "Asian contemporary" home in the Hollywood Hills for $7.175 million. Naturally, there's a custom designed two-story gym in the master suite, and a pool for showing off the results. Plus, kids rooms!

Scorched earth flight attendant Steven Slater—who slid down an inflatable slide and into our hearts last summer—is raising funds for his legal defense by selling "Let It Slide" t-shirts on his website, just in time for the holidays.

Kids are horrible. They only want to eat sugar, chips, grilled cheese, and awful gunk. Chefs hate them and wish them dead. Then a Jonas Brother shows up, a chef has a meltdown, and the world ends in apocalypse.

An August 2009 e-mail from Fox News' Washington managing editor, Bill Sammon, ordered reporters to drop the term "public option" for "government-run plan" during the health care reform debate. Could Fox News have a right-wing bias?

Here's an "announcement trailer" for the third Transformers movie, called Dark of the Moon. Obviously these films are intriguing, nuanced mysteries, as evidenced by this two-minute bit of historical fiction. The moon landing! Conspiracy! Shiny metal robot monsters.

Christina Aguilera says she fell prey to a nefarious computer hacker. Blake Lively and Ryan Gosling seem to be dating. Michael Lohan makes a video of himself getting Botox, because, why not? Thursday gossip has a complicated relationship with fame.

A woman was found dead in the bathtub of a room at the exclusive-ish Manhattan club and hotel (the one with the pool on the roof, from Sex and the City) early this morning. Update: Police have questioned her companion.

Passengers aboard the luxury expedition ship MV Clelia II are probably wishing their biggest problem was subsisting off mayo sandwiches, after the ship lost an engine this week while on an Antarctic cruise and hit 30-foot swells.

The Winklevoss twins are at it again! Tyler and Cameron, the crew-rowing siblings who walked away with a $65 million settlement after suing Mark Zuckerberg, have filed another suit against the Facebook founder, saying they didn't get enough last time.

And another weird New York institution bites the dust: The Off-Track Betting Corporation, the state-owned horse betting business, has finally closed after years of threatening to do so. Fifty parlors were shut down and 1,000 people were laid off.