What it's like to believe that you're dead

The New Scientist's Mindscapes column has a brief but fascinating profile of man identified only as "Graham" who suffers from a rare delusion known as Cotard's syndrome. Despite walking and talking and eating every day, Graham is convinced that he's dead.

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More Indian Yuppies Eschewing Arranged Marriage For Online Dating

In an attempt to explain the shifting romantic climate for women in India, Mumbai businesswoman Shyra Mogul — who escaped an abusive arranged marriage in her 20s and is now single again — tells NPR that her generation grew up on Bollywood rom-coms which, generally, feature a rich girl feuding with her parents over…

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U.N. Stands Behind Woman Suing Prada Japan For Sexist Discrimination

Provoked by the four-year-long lawsuit between Rina Bovrisse and her former employer, Prada Japan, the United Nations is backing Bovrisse and pushing Japan to introduce legislation to make sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace illegal.

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Until Tomorrow (!) Four New Clips From Arrested Development

It's the final countdown to the new Netflix-streamed episodes of Arrested Development (HOW EXCITED ARE YOU? HOW MANY INTERNET PEOPLE HAVE MADE THAT FINAL COUNTDOWN JOKE? HALP) and Mitch Hurwitz and co. have done a cracking job of making us all feel like we're in Memento.

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Chris Christie, who has gone on record multiple times as a World Class H8er of the Maysles brothers-directed cinéma vérité series Jersey Shore, met the cast of Jersey Shore when both Christie's team and Snooki's team were filming segments for the Today Show in Seaside Heights. And it wasn't even entertaining in a car-crash way.

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Amanda Bynes Walks Free, Thanks to Judge Who Loved 'She's the Man'

I mean, PROLLY, RITE. Who didn't love She's the Man. This whole Amanda Bynes arrest thingy is extremely upsetting. I don't doubt that she's going through some serious shit these days, but on the other hand, that dude who called the cops on her seems like an opportunistic garbage-bozo. And what twentysomething rich kid …

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Finally! Fashion Students Create a Plus-Size Dress Form

It's pretty obvious that most mainstream fashion has a plus-size problem. This is perhaps epitomized by fact that the "fatkini" sold out instantly — when the needs of plus-sized women are considered by designers (which occurs fare more rarely than it should), the clothing in question is often woefully understocked — or …

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