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RuPaul on How Straight People Steal From Gay Culture and Why Educating the Youth Is a Waste of Time
RuPaul was born November 17, which makes him a Scorpio — a detail he has said accounts for his observant and analytical nature during interviews. -
Rey is a Palpatine
This post obviously contains some spoilers. People know me as that food nerd, but I was a Star Wars nerd long before I ever even picked up a knife. -
The Comedian’s Comedian’s Comedian
He’s a boxer, a Buddhist, a hoops junkie, and a kind of Yoda to every funny person born since 1965 (Sandler, Silverman, Apatow, Gervais, Baron Cohen…). Amy Wallace survives a rare sparring session with Garry Shandling, the reclusive master of American comedy -
The Mystery of James Franco: Inside His Manic Days and Sleepless Nights
James Franco isn’t like other movie stars. He’s acted in blockbusters like the Spider-Man trilogy, but Franco’s an idiosyncratic polymath, too. In the basement of a crumbling old mansion in Los Angeles, two women dressed in 19th-century garb are beating each other senseless. -
11 Tattooed Women On The Double Standards They Face For Being Inked
In 2016, it’s not uncommon for women to have tattoos. All you need to do is take a good look around and you’ll find that a lot of female friends, colleagues and family members are inked. -
James Patterson Has a Big Plan for Small Books
People already read James Patterson’s books — and in staggering numbers. Last year, he and his team of writers had 36 books land on the New York Times best-seller list. To date, he has published 156 books that have sold more than 325 million copies worldwide. -
Eating something sweet can lead to a romantic date
Ate something bitter? It can make you judgmental. Feeling love is all around? It can make even water taste sweeter. Not only do our emotions influence our perceptions of taste, but what we taste can also change how we feel, scientists have found. -
Real ‘Siberian unicorn’ remains found
(CNN) New research has revealed the ‘Siberian unicorn’ roamed the planet far more recently than we originally thought. The bad news is it looked nothing like the mythical creatures portrayed in so many fairy tales. It was fatter and furrier, and in reality more rhino than stallion. -
Scientists have identified a facial expression made around the world: “the not face”
You know the face: the frowning, skeptical expression you assume unconsciously upon hearing something you disagree with. It’s not just you, nor is it just a tic of the culture in which you operate. -
The Apple-FBI Battle Is Over, But the New Crypto Wars Have Just Begun
Apple’s standoff with the FBI unfolded over the course of several weeks, but ended in a matter of days. That’s how long it took the FBI to find a way into a San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone and successfully exploit it without Apple’s help. -
Is ‘Friends’ Still the Most Popular Show on TV?
When the TV critic Andy Greenwald, who is 38, returned to his high school near Philadelphia last May to speak to students about his job, he wondered how it would go. After all, today’s students are a digital generation who have only a vague association with the concept of “TV”. -
Why Are We So Scared Of Teenage Girls?
“I’d rather do anything than treat teenage girls,” a psychologist friend once told me. He said that teenage girls couldn’t be trusted, that they would pretend to be your friend and then stab you in the back, even if you were their shrink. -
Personality influences how one reacts to email errors
You no who you aer: the person who thinks its her job too catch every typo or gramatical errur? This behavior is partly the result of personality traits that influence how people react to written errors, according University of Michigan linguistics experts. -
How Meryl Streep Battled Dustin Hoffman, Retooled Her Role, and Won Her First Oscar
On March 12, 1978, the man Meryl Streep had been dating for nearly two years died as she sat at his hospital bed.