What’s an Economist’s Nobel Medal Worth? $390,848
The Nobel medal awarded to the economist Simon Kuznets in 1971 sold Thursday night on the auction block for $390,848. This was the first medal to sell in the field…
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Suddenly, Layering Is the Rage
What felt like Arctic-strength winds were blowing on Sunday as New York Fashion Week attendees braved their shows — and the temperatures, with the wind chill, hovered perilously close to…
ShredYourEx Lets You Destroy Photos Of Your Ex Just In Time For Valentine’s Day
Hey, newly single people: If your plans for Valentine’s Day involve little more than stalking your ex’s Facebook page, please allow us to recommend a better option. A website launched…
Watch All Of Your Favorite Actors In The Trailer For Cameron Crowe’s ‘Aloha’
Outgoing Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal pretty much trashed Cameron Crowe’s “Aloha” in emails leaked during the Sony hack in December, but the film’s first trailer looks kind of good?…
Review: In ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Movie, Sex Is a Knotty Business
At the end of a recent New York sneak preview of “Fifty Shades of Grey” — in the blackout between the final lines of dialogue (“Anastasia!” “Christian!”) and the first…
Modern Farmer Ceases Publication
Modern Farmer, the 100,000-circulation quarterly and website that tried to link effete urban farmers’ market culture with the practicalities of actual farming, ceased publication Friday, as the last of the…
The Mysterious Straight-Girl Appeal Of Lesbian Porn
Almost a quarter of straight millennial women prefer girl-on-girl pornography to porn that depicts their actual sex lives. Why? Read the whole story at Cosmopolitan
Get texts from your ‘Invisible Boyfriend’
Yes, the Internet has a solution for everything, and Invisible Boyfriend (or Girlfriend, they’re not fussy) can take care of those pesky privacy-invading questions by supplying an actual person to…
Addicted to your smartphone? 10 signs you might be
‘I’ve got a problem’ The quiz asks questions like: “Do you find yourself spending more time on your Smartphone than you realize?” and “Do you feel reluctant to be without…