Culture

'Fat' Is Not a Bad Word

My wife is a gorgeous, brilliant, badass woman, a fact that’s clear to anyone . . . She’s also fat.

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Do We Really Only Use 10% of Our Brains?

The Scarlett Johannson thriller "Lucy" imagines what a person could accomplish with all brain-cylinders running. But are we actually already there?

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Selena Gomez Showed Support for Gaza . . . But Should We Care?

Celebs have taken to social media to discuss the Malaysian Airlines crash and Israeli-Palestinian violence. But does it do any good?

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In "Honor" of the New BroApp We Give You a (Soul-Crushing) Crash Course on Brodom

Dive deep into bro culture with these classes exploring everything from brosurance to bromances.

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Before I Die, I Hope My Blender Arrives—Fiction from Luna Luna magazine

Eva, having stayed up the whole night preoccupied with death and time, planned to call in sick.

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Bioethicists Defend Contoversial Facebook Study—But Does The Real Problem Lie With Psychology Itself?

The modern trajectory of psychology—choose dumb topics to study; study those dumb topics poorly—has us worried.

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Lessons on Infidelity From Hollywood Cheating Scandals

Does what we read about affairs in the tabloids apply to "real world" cheating, too?

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"Undress Me" Video Asks Strangers to Disrobe One Another—But Only if They're Conventionally Beautiful

Tatia Pllieva's latest film is just as annoying (and pretty) as her last one, "First Kiss." Whatever happened to not-so-perfect glory?

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