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Industrious Fearmongers Introduce Bulletproof Whiteboards
A bullet proof? (Hardwire LLC) Since the Sandy Hook tragedy in December 2012, an increased number of students have been toting bulletproof backpacks to school. But how are teachers supposed to keep...
View ArticleIs That a Gadget in Your Pocket? Objectifying 25 Male Tech Writers
News of the first annual Objectify a Male Tech Writer Day swept across the web this morning following an article penned by one of the event’s founders, gaming and social media reporter Leigh Alexander....
View ArticleLawmakers Make 2016 References While Grilling Clinton Over Benghazi
For a good portion of the day, outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been testifying before Congress about federal government’s response to the September 11th attacks against the American...
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New York Times Classical Music Critic James Oestreich Takes Buyout
Photo credit: Twitter. Classical musical critic for The New York Times James Oestreich has accepted the paper's buyout and will retire at the end of the month from the New York Times. The departure,...
View ArticleNext Up in Madison Square Park: a Camera Obscura, Courtesy Sandra Gibson and...
The next installation in Madison Square Park is going to turn viewers’ worlds upside down. Artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder are constructing a walk-in camera obscura titled Topsy Turvy for their...
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Pedal to the Metal! David Byrne Set to Defend More Bizarre Bike Racks
Everyone’s favorite Renaissance man and cycling enthusiast David Byrne is gearing up for yet another run in with the Public Design Commission, slated to defend his latest creation for the Brooklyn...
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Everyone’s Favorite Parlor Game Gets a Web Series (Video)
Wed, Bed, Dead. (The Gloss) For as long as we can remember, the best game during sleepovers/on late-night drug binges/in girly blogs has been Fuck/Marry/Kill. If you are unaware of how the rules work,...
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It’s Called Journalism, Not Entertainment: The Dupont-Columbia Awards...
Last night, we braved the frigid temperatures and took the 1 train all the way to Columbia University’s Low Library for the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Awards ceremony, one of the top prizes for...
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New York City Employers Can No Longer Ask If You’re Unemployed
Speaker Quinn. Today, the New York City Council was the first in the nation to pass a law that prohibits employers from considering an applicant's current employment status while making their hiring...
View ArticleRaffi Would Like to Point Out He Invented the Bananaphone Way Before the...
Everyone’s favorite children’s singer Raffi, responsible for preschool james like ”Baby Beluga” and “Bananaphone,” has carved out a pretty successful niche for himself on Twitter. His followers appear...
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[UPDATED] On Deadline Day, Times Employees Take Buyouts
Today is the deadline for newsroom buyouts at The New York Times. So far, two more have accepted the deal. Update (1:37 p.m.): Assistant managing editor Jim Roberts announced via his Twitter feed that...
View ArticleState Department Offers Helpful Guidelines On How Not to Get Catfished
The Manti Te’o scam, which revealed that the supposedly dead girlfriend of a Notre Dame football player had never really existed, sparked a maelstrom of hype about the dangers of online dating. The New...
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Size Really Matters! NJ Men Sue Subway Over False Footlong Subs
The origin of the Subway saga. (Matt Corby Via Facebook) Home of the $5 footlong, Subway has found itself sandwiched between two lawsuits. Three New Jersey men are suing the sandwich giant for...
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NYC High School Worker ‘Canned Over Creepy Moose Email’ to Female Colleague
Anyone up for some moose butchering? (Getty Images) If you hate your current teaching job, here’s a tip on how to get canned: email your colleagues and ask them if they’d like to butcher a moose with...
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Pope Urges Church Leaders to Start Tweeting #Now
The Pope sends his first ever tweet from an iPad at the Vatican in December. (Getty Images) In December 2012, Pope Benedict XVI—or @Pontifex, as he’s also known—let out his first official tweet. Now,...
View ArticleWhich Well-Funded New York Cofounder Is Ready To Raise Again?
Sorry, startups, but you’re going to have to get better at the Stanford swivel. One local developer wrote in to Betabeat to recount a meeting at a Williamsburg coffee shop earlier today between a...
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Tech Tronic: BP Stringer Approves Cornell’s Roosevelt Island Campus, Wants...
Thumbs up. (Morphosis) The public review process known as ULURP, through which most every large-scale development in the city must pass, is rarely an easy one. New York created the NIMBY, and ULURP is...
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Stringer Puts Pressure on MTA to Stop Subway Deaths
(Getty Images) Straphangers have lost their lives underground at an alarming rate—and if the trend continues, more than 100 New Yorkers will perish by the end of the year. Manhattan Borough President...
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Girls Gets Renewed for 3rd Season, for a Second Time
Girls: Forever! (HBO) Today, HBO announced that Girls has been picked up for a third season, bragging in its press release that the premiere of the second season "already exceeds a gross audience of...
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The Dolphin That Braved the Gowanus [Video]
Oh no! Dolphins are the best animals in the world. (Fact.) They are also the smartest (fact), eat mackerel (fact) and gravitate toward people who are giving off signals of distress in the water, so...
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