sebastianfritzon / flickr Ever since Karen Straub had her thyroid removed because of cancer in 1999, she has struggled with her weight. She became diabetic and suffered from terrible acid reflux ...
A research engineer at the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication at Massachusetts General Hospital, displays a titanium frame designed for the reconstruction of a human ear, as well ...
Felix Baumgartner in 1999 preparing to base-jump from the arm of the Christ the Redeemer statue atop Corcovado mountain, overlooking Rio de Janeiro. Baumgartner camped out overnight at the site ...
Frenchie is the heart and soul of his gym in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The 72-year-old bodybuilder has been running the place for 36 years, with loads of weathered snapshots on the ...
USC Institute for Creative Technologies The latest "virtual therapist" -- charged with helping diagnose depression -- comes from psychologist Albert Rizzo and computer scientist Louis-Philippe Morency at the University of Southern California ...
Cue the theme music; there's a brand new Man of Steel trailer that showcases a whole pant-load of new superhero footage, including lots of new threats and violence from ...
Now that Warehouse 13 has been consigned to the same fate as Eureka — tying off loose ends and then going away for good — each episode is a reminder that this ...
From entomologist, blogger and insect photographer Alex Wild comes this remarkable image of a trapjaw ant, torn asunder to reveal the wriggling, 8-inch parasitic worm living inside. (The ant, by ...
I can't bring myself to complain about Revolution any more — about the fact that this show isn't living up to its fun, swashbuckling pilot and also doesn't ...
A landmark legal case may finally put a stop to almost half a century of bizarre medical procedures in the United States, where children's genitals have been surgically altered ...
'That's really what we've always wanted: to be making music that has an emotional resonance for people,' Tony McGuinness tells MTV News.
By Sam Hendrick
Em's music publisher is suing the social-media site and its advertising agency for using 2000's 'Under the Influence' in an ad.
By Todd Gilchrist
Eminem
Photo: C. Flanigan ...
'It's the best thing we've ever done,' Jared Leto says of Mars' brand-new album, in stores Tuesday.
By James Montgomery
Nuance is rare on the bestseller list. In most cases, ambiguity is stripped away to appeal to the greatest number and lowest common denominator. So it always renews my faith ...
When this tale of obsessive love was originally published in English in 1981, Graham Greene called it “the best novel of the year.” The author, Benjamin Tammuz, lived in Israel ...
You think a relationship is complicated when a woman is from Venus and a man is from Mars? Trust me, that’s a piece of cake compared with the hurdles ...
Jim Pressler looks good for his age. Very good. “Although I’m 17 years his junior and firmly in my 40s,” writes his wife, Margaret Webb Pressler, “few people ever ...
By my reckoning, this superb first (and only) novel by James Ross has had five lives: a first printing in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin in 1940, a Signet paperback (abridged ...
A goat made a daring, potentially life-saving escape Tuesday morning from a truck authorities believe was headed to a slaughterhouse. The goat, named Sky, fell or jumped while being driven ...
A new nightclub in Scotland is being investigated by police and other Glasgow city officials after a newspaper investigation revealed the club had installed two-way mirrors in its women's ...
A mystery respiratory illness has killed two people and infected five others in Alabama. All of the victims have shown signs of fever, cough and shortness of breath, but the ...
With a vote of 13 to 5, the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a landmark immigration bill that would offer a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living in ...
On Tuesday morning, a man driving on the Baltimore Beltway ran out of gas. So he did what anyone would do: He pulled over to the shoulder of I-695, set ...
Designed by Italian company Mussi, this chair is more than just a comfy place to sit. Not only does it adapt to your body, Kangura’s base folds out to ...
Swiss design firm BERNHARD | BURKARD recently launched a super fun floor lamp that was inspired by the tallest living animal there is – the giraffe. The GIRAFFE | floor lamp adapts to ...
What was already a house with rich history in Winchester, UK, became even more so when AR Design Studio came in to renovate the old servants’ quarters of a larger ...
Designer and illustrator Kim Johnson of Buttercup Press sent me a link to her new graphic pillow designs. I love the pastel rainbows that look like blurred digital images of ...
Your old plastic bottles no longer are useless when they’re being made into the felt that forms the Torbuschka family of bags by Kaaita. Each Torbuschka comes with two ...
Life-changing awakening
Coughs likely to linger about 3 weeks
Even though I’m well past my elementary school days, the advent of summer’s long, humid days always signals a time of boundless freedom and endless possibility. The calendar ...
Photo by Julia Robbs
Today’s Biz Ladies Profile comes to us from consummate jackie-of-all-trades, Tina Roth Eisenberg of Swiss Miss. Beyond her wildly successful blog, Tina has gone on ...
Today’s Biz Ladies post comes to us from Andreea Ayers of LaunchGrowJoy.com, the online destination for educating yourself effective business practices. First starting off in the retail industry ...
Today’s Best of City Guides is all about the West. From the Rockies to the Pacific and all the way out to the islands of Hawaii, we’ve been ...
This year marks the fifth year that the D*S team has traveled to western Massachusetts to attend, and revel in, the madness that is the Brimfield Antique Show. Launched ...
We all change in high school. Even if not everyone transforms from one thing into another, and even if some people regress rather than evolve, we can still see high ...
Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky created some of most visually arresting films of his generation—Solaris, Andrei Rublev, Stalker, The Mirror—in a brief career cut short by lung cancer. But ...
Proving that even the guy who directed Antichrist has limits to what he's willing to subject moviegoers to, one of the producers of Lars Von Trier's upcoming, two-part ...
Yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer series finale "Chosen" on UPN. (Also it’s been more than 10 years since the show made the bizarre ...
Notable recordings from the world of pop music.
Roomrunner
Imagine a Nirvana whose only source of angst came from being constantly compared to Nirvana. There's more fun than fury ...
May 29 marks the 100th anniversary of the wonderfully scandalous premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” when a near-riot broke out in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Performances of ...
The U.S. Marine Chamber Orchestra seemed to gather strength and confidence as it worked its way through a program of Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Bizet at the Schlesinger Concert Hall ...
Ray Manzarek, who studied economics in college but cherished music and met with Jim Morrison on a California beach one fateful day in 1965 to help create the Doors, died ...
Put yourself in The-Dream’s position: You’re an awkwardly hyphenated R&B superstar artist and producer. You have no problem getting Jay-Z and Beyonce to guest-star on your new ...
You didn't think Brangelina & Co. would hole up in just any old shack, did you?
Of course not! Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie—along with kids Maddox, Pax, Zahara ...
Everything seemed elevated on this season of Dancing With the Stars, from the gimmickry to the gruesomeness of the injuries.
But, most importantly, the difficulty of the...
Awkward Friends reunion alert!
In a rather hilarious new clip, Jennifer Aniston seeks out advice from former costar Matthew Perry in preparation for her gig cohosting...
Tyrese Gibson can be serious (and he just is sexy), but he can also make you laugh.
The actor and singer stopped by E! News today to talk to Terrence ...
Zoe Saldana feels for the editorial team at Allure.
Asked about the backlash the magazine received for revealing the actress' weight on its June cover ("115 pounds of grit...
Aren't they just the cutest?
Photographers caught Pippa Middleton out on a date with her beau Nico Jackson tonight, as they headed to the opening of the new cocktail ...
Graduate days are here again.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem plans to bestow an honorary PhD on Barbra Streisand while she's in Israel next month to sing at an ...
It wasn't Miranda Kerr's face that stole the show during her latest photo shoot.
Instead, the Victoria's Secret veteran—who, ironically, was modeling skin-care products...
Pucker up!
While waiting in line at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC today, Emma Roberts and boyfriend Evan Peters enjoyed a smooching session to pass the time.
The...
Well, we know what will make a lot of teens' summer-reading wish lists.
After their #1BigAnnouncement of having a 2014 Where We Are stadium tour, the boys of One Direction ...
