Here's your first peek at Equals, Kristen Stewart's upcoming "sci-fi romance" costarring Nicholas Hoult. The relationship rumors should practically start themselves.

If you wish to be a highly cultured and truly well-rounded individual, you've got to know your modern classics.

To write a tea instructional is to wade into darkly tannic waters long ago claimed by giants like Orwell and Douglas Adams. That hasn't stopped Christopher Hitchens, who writes an open letter on the subject. Nor shall it stop me.

• The Guard Dogs, a French/Swiss feminist group, has named this underwear ad the most degrading of the year. The Guard Dogs also give out "macho medals" for the most sexist remarks. •

"In those days," George Orwell writes of his bleak boarding school experience in the early 20th century, "[bed wetting] was looked on as a disgusting crime which the child committed on purpose and for which the proper cure was a beating." But according to the Economist, even the brutal Brits of Orwell's youth might be…