Jezebel: Survival

Stranded Real-Life Lady MacGyver Survives For 9 Days On Snow & Candy Bars

Erin Gloria Ryan — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:15:00 EST

A 23-year-old student who lived on melted snow and candy bars during a 9 day ordeal in remote Arizona says she's thankful to be alive. And that's the last time she house sits at Dakota Fanning's ski chalet. More »

How To Travel By Air Without Going Completely Insane

Erin Gloria Ryan — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:00:00 EDT

Most people who say they love travel usually actually love "being in other places." Anyone who actually loves going to the airport, waiting in a series of increasingly frustrating lines, sitting on a plane and then reverse negotiating a strange place is either damaged or more relentlessly positive than SpongeBob Squarepants on ecstasy. The process of being in transit is not enjoyable and can present some unique barf baggy challenges that one can only hope to MacGuyver through. More »

BMW Uses Virginity To Sell Cars • Playboy-Posing Olive Garden Employees Will Keep Their Jobs

Maria — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:40:00 EDT

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Nothing smells classier than using a vaguely underage nude girl's sexual history to sell used cars. What do they use to sell new cars? • Scientists are getting favorable results from a chlamydia vaccine for koalas. • In at-least-this-woman-isn't-your-mother news: a mom pleads guilty to drugging her twin 6-year-old girls and using them to make child porn. • A 19-year-old boy from New York must write an apology to the city of Saratoga Springs for dressing in a 6-foot penis costume during his high school graduation. • More »

Man Vs. Nature

Maria — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:45:00 EDT

In the recent floods across the U.S. this month 12 people were killed, and 9 of them were men. Apparently, men are more likely than women to die in floods, partly because they are often outside for their jobs and because they are more likely to take stupid risks in bad weather. Lightning is also another "very common" fatal disaster for men (men are often "outside playing or watching sports"...apparently, women never go outside!). [Time] More »

Cameron "Crater Face" Diaz Feels Our Pimple Pain

amparry — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:30:00 EDT

Something Cameron Diaz and that goiter on our forehead parading as a pimple have known forever: Women are more likely than men to suffer from adult acne. [Science Daily]