Recently, the FDA ordered 23andMe to halt sales of its at-home DNA tests, and customers filed a class-action lawsuit accusing 23andMe of using misleading advertisements. But it's not genetic data itself that's the problem—it's 23andMe's claims that its interpretations of users' genomic data can provide health benefits.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, performance art genius and Canada’s greatest embarrassment, knows a lot of things. He knows how to eat pussy, please people, and smoke crack. But I'll tell you one thing: Rob Ford does not know shit about football.
To read Tamara Faith Berger's novels is to acknowledge that she isn't your mother's coming-of-age novelist. Tamara famously cut her literary teeth writing for smut magazines, and her novels are first-person accounts of young girls' sex with pedophiles, vacations to Florida, and google searches for Hagel.
Taji's Mahal
A few nights ago, I received a late night phone call from artist and skateboarder Mark Gonzales a.k.a. the Gonz. We made plans to meet at midnight at Astor Place. Over the next few hours, the Gonz shot footage of us riding skateboards and bikes through the city for his new short film, “08NOBEL80.”
Nearly a decade ago, Sun Jifa lost his hands in a fishing-related explosion. Sun couldn't afford prosthetic arms, but he didn't let this stop him from obtaining bionic hands—using his inventive imagination, Sun built his own metal hands.
Later this month, 17 robots will enter a competition, prompted by the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, that aims to fast-track the development of machines that can respond in a natural or man-made disaster.
Scientists at the Catholic University of Leuven tested ten of the most popular books at the Antwerp library for microbes and bacteria. They found something unexpected.
Art Gallery
Massimo Vitali was getting ready for his exhibition in New York, so I met up with him to chat about his photography and whether or not his job feels like a vacation.
This Week in Racism
Nelson Mandela lived as a symbol of the struggle for racial equality, and dedicated his existence to fighting for a more just world. His death has brought up all the old issues that surrounded the South African apartheid system.
New York State of Mind
This week Verena spent a day with upcoming artist Bebe Panthere and shot a couple rolls of her while hanging out in Brooklyn.
Frank Hewetson has been released, but is still facing charges and seven years in a Russian jail after protesting deep-sea drilling in the Arctic Sea.
With regard to 23andMe, Silicon Valley's favorite genetic testing startup, the agency is doing exactly what government regulation is designed to do: Protect consumers from unsafe or misleading medical products in cases where the company has little financial incentive to do so itself.
How To Raise Fucking Twins
Unlike being invited to a game of Farmville, giving forth life is not a birthright. So naturally, I recently found myself butt-naked and spread-eagled in a fertility clinic, pounding off to Asian Honeycums, Volume Two.
A number of different political groups in Ukraine are coming together to rally against President Yanukovych and calm the protesters in Kiev. We called our freezing UK news editor for another update from the streets.
Photos by Annette Lamothe-Ramos and styling by Miyako Bellizzi.
Hot Links
Welcome to Hot Links, our brand new food column dedicated to showcasing the overlooked culinary wonders of YouTube. Here are seven of the best low-budget restaurant commercials shot in tourist traps around the USA. Crack a cold one and enjoy.
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