The week between the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl is host to a nonsense event known as the Pro Bowl. Though it’s literally an exhibition game in which the best players from the AFC face off against the best from the NFC, functionally it’s a football photo
The NFL is an emperor with no clothes, no morals, and vaults of gold. As we prepare for Super Bowl XLVII, author Dave Zirin explains how greed and corruption have ruined the game, endangered players, and fleeced the public.
* "Bitterly cold conditions" expected to continue across much of the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast. * Astonishing pictures of Chicago's freezing fire. * Everything you need to know about snowflake shapes comes from a scientist in Southern California. * Audio experts explain why it's clear that Beyoncé
* GOP hatches plan to award electoral votes by Congressional district outcomes—which would have resulted in a Romney victory. * One of Obama's reelection engineers launches effort to turn Texas blue—which would effectively end the Republican Party. * A dispatch from the Disinaugural Ball. * Audio engineer says Beyoncé'
More than a decade after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan—now our longest war—most Americans still know next to nothing about the people who live there, and the liberties denied them. Lessons from a rapid education.
* Since Sandy Hook, there have been at least 1,173 gun deaths in America. * Pentagon to remove ban on female service members in combat roles, based on women’s valor in Iraq and Afghanistan. * Navies still having trouble on that front underwater—42 countries use submarines, but only six allow
By the time these words are committed to the internet, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez will have been broken up for over three weeks, a week longer than they were together after their original breakup last Thanksgiving, aka the worst month of my life, aka the Merciless Pit of Despair,
One of my earliest memories involves a table on fire. I was no more than three or four years old, and I was celebrating some occasion with the paternal side of my family at a Bangkok restaurant. In the middle of the lunch, someone knocked over a gel-fuel buffet
* NIH to permanently retire almost all of its 451 research chimpanzees. * Scientists say oxytocin—not blood relation or sex—is behind cooperation among chimp populations. * Food detective find fake ingredients in grocery-store products. * Restaurants are asking diners to stop photographing their food. * Premier chefs agree that to eliminate hunger,
A mouth guard can do more than save our enamel from nighttime gnashing. It may also shield us from our daily anxieties.
