When 1 in 5 Men Have Abused Women, We Need New Statistics
Nearly one in five men admit to abusing their wives or girlfriends, which really makes you think, how many of those abusers do I know? With such a small number, what else do one in five people do? Refuse to wash their hands after peeing? Pick their nose in public? Be open to a sexual rendezvous with a robot? Real…
12 Is the New Age to Demand a Cell Phone, Kids
It’s back-to-school time and all of the parents on your Facebook feed are thrilled to have their lives back. That is, right after they stopped crying about the cost of sending their little monsters to class with new clothes, learning supplies and cell phones. And these days, if a kid’s at least 12, many think it’s…
All That Technology in Bed Is Stressing the Sleep Out of You
In 2011, the National Sleep Foundation polled over 1,500 Americans and found that ninety-five percent of respondents used some form of technology in the hour before bed. That's not great, especially considering new research suggesting that all that time you spend reading Wikipedia's Unusual Deaths page in the comfort…
18-Year-Old Girl's Invention Could One Day Instacharge Your Phone
At this Saturday's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, brilliant teenager Eesha Khare from Saratoga, CA, won $50,000 for inventing a supercapacitor that could one day charge your phone battery in 20 to 30 seconds. My phone is always dying in important situations (Angry Birds), so I AM READY.
New App Makes Boycotting Bad Businesses That Much Easier
Ever since boycotting products became a popular means of protesting in the Gandhi days of divesting from British goods, divestment has become an increasingly effective method to punish the bad guys with the only action that seems to have significant impact in our capitalist society: buying things. Even for the…
Eavesdropping on One-Way Conversations Is Like Being a Sleazy Detective in Your Very Own, Super-Irritating Noir Film
If you've ever found yourself grinding your molars because the person sitting next to you in a coffee shop was gabbing away on a cellphone about the previous night's bout of food poisoning from a vending machine chili dog, you no doubt wished that you had laser eyes so you could melt that person into a puddle of…
Wider Cellphone Use Among India’s Sex Workers Threatens HIV-Prevention Programs
India, which has been a surprising success story in AIDS prevention throughout the aughts, might be on the verge of a serious health crisis thanks to the more widespread use among sex workers of cellphones, those fragile, rectangular amulets of modern independence. Though India's sex trade used to be largely localized…
NYC Businesses Are Making Tons of Cash Off Kids' Cell Phones
88 public NYC high schools and middle schools charge kids a dollar a day to store their cell phones in trucks or nearby bodegas while they're in class so they can't text their friends emojis during pre-calc. The New York Post says this adds up to $4.2 million a year — that's $22,800 a day from about 120,000 students…
Looks Like Siri Has Been a Sociopath All Along
Siri can be used for many purposes — from telling Zooey Deschanel that when water falls from the sky, that's called "rain" to claiming she doesn't know who Samuel L. Jackson is (seriously! Ask her! She'll lie!) But did you know that Siri can also be a malevolent entity worthy of her own series of R. L. Stein books?
One in Ten People Have Accidentally Sexted the Wrong Person
One-tenth of self-described "sexters" have accidentally sent x-rated texts to the wrong person, according to a recent poll by U.K.-based mobile news site Recombu. If you're one of them, we have little sympathy for you: I mean, how many people are you mass-sexting, anyway? But, in this day and age, there are a number…

