What does it really feel like to fall out of a building?
Life speeds up when we get older and slows down when we are terrified. Unlocking the mysteries of time perception
Saturday, May 25, 2013 7:35 PM UTCTechnology Books, Time, Neuroscience
Why do people deny science?
The potent combination of our powerful intelligence with our massive reality denial has led to a dangerous world
Technology Books, Time, Neuroscience
How Dan Savage lost it
"When I was 15, I lost my virginity to my older brother’s ex-girlfriend. The point was to prove it to my family"
Saturday, May 25, 2013 7:00 PM UTC 14Life Books, Sex, Dan Savage
I don’t hate millennials anymore!
So they don't know John Hughes or the Cure or have a generational identity. This Gen Xer now sympathizes with Gen Y
Saturday, May 25, 2013 1:00 PM UTC 102Life Books, Academia, John Hughes
GOP: Party of crybabies
Republicans insist that you please don’t criticize their policies or insult their donors
Saturday, May 25, 2013 11:00 AM UTC 90Politics Republican Party, Criticism
What’s 2013′s “Gone Girl”? Here are this summer’s best reads
Why settle for the latest Dan Brown, when you can while away the dog days with these stylish page-turners?
Friday, May 24, 2013 11:30 PM UTCEntertainment Books, What to Read, Fiction
Nancy Jo Sales on L.A. celeb robbers: “The Bling Ring kids were depressed”
The "Bling Ring" reporter speaks to Salon about the movie, Paris Hilton -- and why she feels for the thieves VIDEO
Saturday, May 25, 2013 4:00 PM UTCEntertainment Video, nancy jo sales
“Arrested Development,” hurry up and get here so you can stop being so annoying
After months in the desert of hype, the oasis emerges. I'm excited for new episodes, but already tired of the hype
Saturday, May 25, 2013 4:00 PM UTC 10Entertainment Arrested Development, TV
Diet soda rots your teeth “like meth and cocaine”
A new study claims a soda habit can damage your chompers as badly as a drug habit
Saturday, May 25, 2013 6:00 PM UTC 13Life The Fix, Soda, Cocaine, Drugs
Is the Environmental Defense Fund ruining environmentalism?
Sixty-eight grassroots groups are protesting the organization's decision to join a coalition of oil companies
Saturday, May 25, 2013 5:00 PM UTCTechnology Pacific Standard
Top 5 investigative videos of the week: “Winning” Afghanistan
From predatory soldiers to corrupt politicians, a look at the finest documentaries YouTube has to offer VIDEO
Saturday, May 25, 2013 3:00 PM UTCTechnology Video, The I Files, The Sopranos
Will U.S. amphibians become endangered species?
A new study finds they're declining at a rapid rate and could disappear from half their habitats in 20 years
Saturday, May 25, 2013 3:00 PM UTC 12Life Scientific American, Amphibians
Must-do’s: What we like this week
Steven Soderbergh's last feature film arrives on DVD, and George Packer reports on the decline of America
Saturday, May 25, 2013 2:00 PM UTCEntertainment Our Picks: Books, our picks: TV
Josh Ritter makes his “Blood on the Tracks”
The acclaimed singer-songwriter on his amazing new CD, which will always be known as his "divorce album" VIDEO
Saturday, May 25, 2013 1:00 PM UTCEntertainment Video, Music, Josh Ritter
Illinois’ fracking and coal rush is a national crisis
Illinois and its Mississippi River banks are becoming another ground zero in the war over climate change
Saturday, May 25, 2013 1:00 PM UTC 28News AlterNet, Illinois, fracking, Coal
Jester clowns Westboro Baptist Church
The notorious hacker transformed the hate group's "God hates Oklahoma" page into a Red Cross donation site
Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:00 PM UTC 26Politics International Business Times
I do not fear death
I will pass away sooner than most people who read this, but that doesn't shake my sense of wonder and joy
Thursday, Sep 15, 2011 3:01 PM UTC 203Life Memoirs, Cancer, Books
Twitter talks back: Obama’s missed salute
The president failed to salute a Marine properly. Microbloggers respond VIDEO
Friday, May 24, 2013 9:51 PM UTC 110All Salon Video, Obama, Military, Marine
Fox executive behind “Does Someone Have to Go?” leaving the network
The mastermind behind "American Idol" -- and last night's cruel firing-themed show -- to depart
Friday, May 24, 2013 8:55 PM UTCEntertainment does someone have to go, Fox
Developers evict historic women’s shelter to build luxury hotel
The 104-year-old Anna Louise Inn has ended its two-year legal battle with a Fortune 500 company and will now move
Friday, May 24, 2013 8:24 PM UTC 27Business Women's Rights
Guantánamo prisoner on hunger strike cries for help on Twitter
Through the U.K. firm Reprieve, Shaker Aamer appeals to the public to call the U.S. embassy demanding action VIDEO
Friday, May 24, 2013 8:10 PM UTCTechnology the daily dot, Twitter
Kaitlyn Hunt refuses plea offer, will go to court over high school relationship
The 18-year-old rejected a deal that would have labeled her a sex offender and placed her under house arrest
Friday, May 24, 2013 7:10 PM UTC 215Life kaitlyn hunt, statutory rape
The secrets of cicada survival
A new brood is set to emerge this summer for the first time in 17 years. What's taken them so long? VIDEO
Friday, May 24, 2013 7:09 PM UTCLife Video, Scientific American
Hillary Clinton memoir shows up on Amazon
The book, with thoughts on "challenges of the 21st century," is set to come out in June 2014
Friday, May 24, 2013 7:09 PM UTCEntertainment Hillary Clinton, Memoirs
Nobody “needs” to rape
Jose Canseco joins the long list of men who resort to the idiotic defense that they can "get" women without force
Friday, May 24, 2013 6:58 PM UTC 71Life Jose Canseco, Rape
A brief history of Jennifer Weiner’s literary fights
Claire Messud joins the many buzzy figures -- Jonathan Franzen, Lena Dunham, Jennifer Egan -- to earn Weiner's ire
Friday, May 24, 2013 6:31 PM UTC 27Entertainment Books, Claire Messud
First look: Joaquin Phoenix, Marion Cotillard shine in “The Immigrant”
Cannes: Call it the anti-“Gatsby.” James Gray’s new film is a slow-burning 1920s parable of fall and redemption
Friday, May 24, 2013 6:30 PM UTCEntertainment Movies, Film Festivals, Cannes
DHS admits “impossible” to control 3D-printed guns
A bulletin from the agency acknowledges what bit torrent sharers well know
Friday, May 24, 2013 6:25 PM UTC 16Technology dhs, 3D-printed guns, Guns, Arms
3 possible solutions to international tax avoidance
Apple is the latest multinational to come under fire, but it's only taking advantage of what the law allows
Friday, May 24, 2013 6:17 PM UTC 10Technology On the Economy, Apple, Google, GE
“I just want the U.S. to send my father home”
The family of a Gitmo detainee twice cleared for transfer remains pessimistic, despite Obama's speech vowing reform
Friday, May 24, 2013 6:00 PM UTC 14Politics Guantanamo, gitmo, Yemen
Journalists file suit against Manning trial secrecy
Plaintiffs including Glenn Greenwald and Julian Assange demand press, public access to trial and documents
Friday, May 24, 2013 5:06 PM UTCMedia Bradley Manning, journalists
Russia: Syrian regime ready to talk peace
Damascus has not issued a definitive statement of its own on the proposed talks
Friday, May 24, 2013 5:03 PM UTCNews Associated Press, Syria, Russia
Catholic Church in market for more exorcists
A spokesman for the archdiocese in Madrid says it has only one such priest and is considering a plan to train more
Friday, May 24, 2013 4:47 PM UTCLife Associated Press, Catholicism
Report: Nearly a quarter of all Americans struggle to afford food
The report notes deprivation in the U.S. is "closer to that in Indonesia or Greece rather than Britain or Canada"
Friday, May 24, 2013 4:29 PM UTC 70Life Poverty, hunger, world hunger
Army weapons engineer tied to white nationalist organizations
Rising GOP operative John Stortstrom was a member of Youth for Western Civilization, a racist student group
Friday, May 24, 2013 4:25 PM UTC 27Politics Southern Poverty Law Center
Ted Cruz against the world
The Texas senator’s escalating feud with McCain reveals his arrogance -- and the continuing crackup of the GOP
Friday, May 24, 2013 4:19 PM UTC 200News Ted Cruz, John McCain, Tea Party
Wikipedia’s anti-Pagan crusade
A rogue editor targeted witches, warlocks and psychedelic scientists -- and cast doubt on the site's judgment
Friday, May 24, 2013 4:18 PM UTC 83Technology wikipedia, pagans, paganism
David Vitter’s hypocritical, punitive, horrible new amendment
Senator's new measure denies food stamps for life to certain classes of ex-convicts (solicitation not included)
Friday, May 24, 2013 4:16 PM UTC 86Business David Vitter, Farm Bill
No women allowed: Summer music festivals are dudefests, again
Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and the Austin City Limits festivals have something in common: very male lineups
Friday, May 24, 2013 4:15 PM UTC 21Business Music, Editor's Picks, VIDA, Wilco
Vivica A. Fox tapes anti-gun PSA in front of poster for her movie
The actress and "Dancing With the Stars" alumna looks Hollywood glam in her "Cool Cat" anti-gun ad VIDEO
Friday, May 24, 2013 4:05 PM UTCEntertainment Video, vivica a. fox
Louie Gohmert: Women should be forced to carry nonviable pregnancies to term
Gohmert went on to accuse a woman who had a medically necessary late-term abortion of "ripping apart" her fetus VIDEO
Friday, May 24, 2013 4:00 PM UTC 65Life Video, Abortion, abortion care
