February 17, 2012 – So, tonight is Paris Hilton's 31st birthday. Since she's already been through self-parody and out the other side, though, I'd like to focus on a member of her entourage: More »

February 17, 2012 – Dana Zemack has been making stick figure comics since she was 12. This week, she made one just for us. Try getting on a plane with one of those. They make me check it every time. (Be still my beating heart, February is American Heart Month. More »

February 17, 2012 – Here's some research that should make Olds feel vindicated: texting a lot apparently makes people less accepting of words they've never heard before. Which is weird because texting is basically a process of sending things that aren't words to people. According to ScienceDaily, grad student Joan Lee... More »

February 17, 2012 – Yesterday, we brought you the "Hot for Teacher" essays that got 56-year-old student Joseph Corlett banned from classes at Oakland University. Now we've talked to him and some former classmates, and the story is even weirder than we thought. First of all, Corlett has asked me to clarify that he did... More »

February 17, 2012 – A Wisconsin mom says she was booted from her position as a Girl Scout troop leader because she and her husband run a goth website. Is this a case of Middle American moral panic, or is there more to this story? More »

February 17, 2012 – Today in awful, a Pittsburgh cop is accused of offering to make women's legal problems go away if they "satisfied him" with various sexual favors. And it looks like his department may have waited years to do anything about it. According to Pittsburgh Live, three unnamed women have made complaints... More »

February 16, 2012 – A study tailor-made for Cosmo has found that when ladies shower their pets with love, they want their boyfriends to do the same (to the pets, that is). More »

February 16, 2012 – A red panda, that is. And the presidency she's seeking is that of Boston's Franklin Park Zoo. In honor of Presidents' Day, the Zoo has been holding a "PreZOOdential Election" since 2006 (when a gorilla named Kiki won).

February 16, 2012 – Sherwin Shayegan has been making headlines recently for his alleged habit of hanging around high schools in five different states so he can get piggyback rides from athletes. More »

(Jezebel.com ) February 16, 2012 – Sometimes, work sucks. Sometimes it sucks so much that you cry. However, showing vulnerability in front of your coworkers can potentially make work suck even more. [Lifehacker]

(Jezebel.com ) February 16, 2012 – A 56-year-old student was banned from Michigan's Oakland University for writing a lengthy essay about how hot his writing professor was — oh, and possibly having a "gun obsession." Now he wants to be reinstated — [Deadspin]

February 16, 2012 – Sometimes, work sucks. Sometimes it sucks so much that you cry. However, showing vulnerability in front of your coworkers can potentially make work suck even more. More »

February 16, 2012 – A 56-year-old student was banned from Michigan's Oakland University for writing a lengthy essay about how hot his writing professor was — oh, and possibly having a "gun obsession." Now he wants to be reinstated — More »

(Jezebel.com ) February 16, 2012 – A 56-year-old student was banned from Michigan's Oakland University for writing a lengthy essay about how hot his writing professor was — oh, and possibly having a "gun obsession." Now he wants to be reinstated — [Gawker]

February 16, 2012 – Here's the strangest crime we've heard about in a long time — a man is allegedly working his way across the country, getting close to high school sports teams, and then asking, paying, or forcing the athletes to give him piggyback rides. More »

February 15, 2012 – When scientists set out to find what online daters lie about most, the results weren't that surprising: height and weight. What is really interesting is how you can tell when someone's lying. According to Forbes, online dating deceptions follow a couple of patterns. More »

February 15, 2012 – We talk a lot about the discrimination women face in science and engineering, but a new study says there may be a bigger reason why women don't rise higher in these fields: More »

February 15, 2012 – From 2003-2008, I was a United States Marine. Trained as a Russian Linguist, I worked as a Security, Governance, and Economics Analyst. "Property of male Marines" was never in my job description, and therefore I should never have had to "expect" to be raped. More »

February 15, 2012 – This tolerant bulldog's name is Baby, and she has adopted six orphaned wild boar piglets at an animal sanctuary in Germany. And there are lots of photos! More »

February 15, 2012 – Two ads for the airline Ryanair have been banned in the UK, on the grounds that their pictures of Ryanair employees in their underwear are offensive. Given how much worse shit exists out there, though, the decision is a little surprising. According to the BBC, 17 people complained to the UK's... More »