Science and Technology

Katie Couric's Weather Report: All Wet (When It Comes to Climate Change)

Couric: Partly cloudyOn Monday night, Katie Couric swung from CBS's coverage of the oil spill to the Tennessee floods by saying she was moving "from a man-made disaster to a natural one." That's one big and unproven assumption. How does Couric know that the worst Tennessee flooding in history has no ... More >>

Discovery Space Shuttle Planning East Coast Flyover

space.com graphic​If you're out early tomorrow morning and look at the sky in the direction of the ocean, you may see the Discovery space shuttle fly by on its way to meet up with the International Space Station in orbit. Tomorrow's launch, one of only five to take place during morning twiligh ... More >>

Social Media Presence Now Journalism Job Performance Metric, Commence Twitter Teabagger Movement

​That sound you heard was a few thousand reporters shitting bricks of varying volumes, and it gets louder by the day with each Tweet. Literalized, it would sound something like a someone throwing a boulder the size of a small child into a calm river. The Tweets and Twitterers are coming for yo ... More >>

'The Visible Vagina' at Francis M. Naumann and David Nolan; Ryan Wallace's 'Glean'; 'Hotwire Comics #3'

Blogger Wars Heat Up: Google Explains Its Sudden Move Against MP3 Blogs

​"I get DMCA takedown notes almost every other week," Pop Tarts Suck Toasted proprietor Patrick Duffy told us on Tuesday, after Google's Blogger service, which hosted PTST, had summarily deleted the blog. "It's ridiculous, but I always remove the offending mp3's ... it seems that I hit the max ... More >>

I Blog New York: Your Guide to Gotham's Best

18 obsessive, cantankerous, and unstoppable Gotham blogs worth going ape over

Zach Brooks Talks About Midtown Lunch's Growing Girth: "I'm Just a Fat Guy Who Likes to Eat"

myspace.com/ztbrooksZach Brooks, definitely not in midtown.​ Four years ago, Zach Brooks walked into Hing Won, a Chinese restaurant near his office in midtown, and noticed two lines. On his left, a bunch of white guys in business suits waited next to a steam table to order Americanized Chines ... More >>

City Universities Are Part of Bloomberg's Green Jobs Vision

John Mackey and Whole Foods Profiled in The New Yorker

Dan Winters for the New YorkerJohn Mackey eats his vegetables, denies global warming​ You might remember the brouhaha when Whole Foods co-founder and CEO John Mackey came out against government-backed health care reform this summer. You may also recall the incident about two years ago when it ... More >>

McCain weighs in on Sarah Palin's cap

​The ongoing pissing match over Sarah Palin's inked-up gimme cap has a new combatant, now that John McCain has taken a stand. If you managed to miss this earth-shaking controversy, the Senator's former running mate was photographed in Hawaii wearing a McCain campaign sun visor with the logo bl ... More >>

A Columbia Skyscraper Clouds Views for the University's Astronomy Students

President Talks Health Care to Congress -- Rightbloggers Make It All About a Guy Named Joe

Last week the President delivered a health care speech to a joint session of Congress. The most newsworthy part of the event, from the rightblogger perspective, was Representative Joe Wilson's cry of "You lie" during a section having to do with coverage of illegal immigrants. (Whether the still ... More >>

Good News For Haddock-Lovers: Some Fisheries Rebounding, Others Floundering

Don't eat him!​ You might remember the interview published here with journalist Charles Clover about his new documentary, End of the Line. Part of that movie reports on a study by a group of scientists led by Boris Worm at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. Using world catch data, they ... More >>

She Scoots to Conquer: Rightbloggers Celebrate Sarah Palin's Latest Masterstroke

Friday's unexpected announcement by Sarah Palin that she would resign the Alaska governorship came as a surprise to everybody -- including the rightbloggers who have supported her most strongly since she came to national attention. Some assumed that she had abandoned the cause, but a healthy remn ... More >>

The Next Frontier of the Stem Cell Debate

"Snowflake" babies, embryo "adoption," and being pre-born again

The Penis-Shaped Minds of Some Wacky Scientists

Oh brother. Here we go again with the evolutionary psychologists.There's no denying that evolutionary psychology has a sort of hip cache -- the general idea goes that we humans act the way we do because of the way we evolved on the African savanna millions of years ago, even if those inherited behav ... More >>

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Fuck Twitter!

I don't even know what Twitter is, but I say to hell with it! I'm just recovering from the organized movement of people begging me to drink the Kool-Aid and join Facebook, and now THIS has become the hot communal cult activity--a "social networking service" of "tweets" and "microblogging". As cert ... More >>

iPod-Jacking Cabbie Willing to Deal; Victim Has Other iPods

The Post follows up on that strange taxi story we told you about last week, in which a cabbie forced a young woman whose credit card wouldn't work in his reader to surrended her iPod as recompense for the fare. The cabbie is identified as Mohammed Islam, and says he's willing to return the iPod in e ... More >>

"RNAi Cocktail" Blocks Herpes in Mice

Since last year's Department of Health report found that one-fourth of our sexed-up citizens have herpes, New Yorkers should be exceptionally interested to learn that a Harvard Medical School researcher has found a "topical treatment" that, via RNA interference (RNAi), disables key genes necessary f ... More >>

Meet New York's Sex Bloggers

The 12 months of the internet’s sultriest sharers

More Apocalyptic Discourse with Appetite for Self-Destruction scribe Steve Knopper

'If they're waiting for the next Thriller to come along and save everything, they're really, really misguided. I hope they've figured it out by now.' This week in the hopelessly antiquated print version of the Voice, I chat with veteran Rolling Stone editor/reporter Steve Knopper, whose new book ... More >>

'Observer' Observations Maybe Don't Include Observing Stars, Galaxies

Vallone, Locals Protest Astoria Power Plant

Columbia Ignores Peril

When Klaus Jacob talks, important people take action. Except the important people paying him.

Mac Wellman Stakes Out His Own Corner of the Galaxy in 1965UU

Space oddity

'Fuck Facebook' The T-Shirt!

Why MySpace Music Won't Succeed

Rupert Murdoch's pride and joy is trying to go legit; mayhem may ensue, and success may not

Earth Wind & Fire: Bloomberg Solicits Renewable Energy Ideas

Krallice Bring a Touch of Evil to Brooklyn

Are You An iDiot? Camping Out For The iPhone

Global Warming May Ruin NY's Super Delicious Tap Water: Report

The Schnorring of America -- Obama is About to End It

The Schnorring of America -- Obama is About to End It

What Happens in Vegas . . . Stays in Computers

Dan Savage Sells His Column (For Charity) This Week

How $2 Million Could Derail Open-Source Voting Machines in NY Elections

Peeking Up the Skirt of Online Sex Work

Topless and proud, Second Life escorts sidestep gender discrimination

Rocket Men

Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

Rudy Giuliani's Five Big Lies About 9/11

On the stump, Rudy can't help spreading smoke and ashes about his lousy record

Universal Records Fucks Up Bad

EfV Misses You

Cybersex Personas: A How-To Guide

Are you hot? Are you slim? Do you have big nipples?

The Dark Side of Summer

Turn off your air conditioners. Take a cue from a camel. Lay off the ice cream. And other advice for surviving a 'heat island'

School That Shocks Gets Slapped

Rudy's Grand Illusion

What Giuliani likes to remember about 9-11—and what he actually did (or didn't do)

Behind the Blackout

Thanks to deregulation, Queens merely a pawn in the utilities' board game

Metallica Finally Gives In to the iTunes Empire

All Hail

With its new spreadsheet application, Google continues on its path toward world domination

Al Gore and the Moral Imperative