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Fallout 76

Bethesda Accidentally Leaked Personal Data of ‘Fallout 76’ Customers Looking for Help

The game publisher accidentally sent support ticket information to customers using its help desk.
Matthew Gault
12.6.18
It's Science

'Cute Aggression' Is the Desire to Crush Adorable Things

A portion of people have it, and researchers think they might know why.
Shayla Love
12.6.18
Plastic Planet
17:06

I Got Surgery to Look Like My Snapchat and Facetune Selfies

Broadly follows two women who get cosmetic surgery to look like their filtered selfie photos on Snapchat and Facetune.
Sex

These Are Some of the Most Unusual Ways People Say They've Achieved Orgasm

The answers ranged from swimming to riding a horse to getting a tattoo.
Justin Lehmiller, PhD
12.6.18
Charlottesville

The VA's diversity chief wanted to condemn white supremacists. Her Trump-appointed boss blocked it.

John Ullyot offered an alternative, watered-down statement that removed all references to white supremacy
Tess Owen
12.6.18
LGBTQ

How an Online Forum for Moms Became a Toxic Hotbed of Transphobia

Mumsnet boasts of its political influence and hosts chats with Hillary Clinton and UK politicians. So how has it become ground zero for British transphobia?
Eve Livingston
12.6.18
Politics

Surprise! Doug Ford Is Running Ontario Like It’s 'Entourage'

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s hiring of personal family friend Ron Taverner to head up Ontario’s police force shows how little he gives a shit about appearances.
Joshua Ostroff
12.6.18
#metoo

Time's Up Broke GoFundMe Record Raising Money for Victims of Harassment

The Time's Up Legal Defense Fund raised $22 million in the last year for victims of sexual assault and workplace harassment who can't afford legal assistance.
Marie Solis
12.6.18
Opioid Crisis

Prescription heroin is actually a good idea, analysis shows. But it probably won’t happen.

It’s worth taking another look at prescription heroin, per a RAND Corporation analysis.
Emma Ockerman
12.6.18
The Noisey Advent Calendar

Big Freedia Proves That "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" Can, In Fact, Bang

On "Rudy, the Big Booty Reindeer," the Queen of Bounce replaces Rudolph's bright red nose with "a very large behind," confirming once and for all that Paul F. Tompkins is wrong.
Alex Robert Ross
12.6.18
monk seal

Everything You Wanted to Know About This Monk Seal With an Eel in Its Nose

“This is the third or fourth case of an eel in the nose that we have observed.”
Sarah Emerson
12.6.18
Police Shooting

Supreme Court rejects appeal of former Toronto cop who shot teen on a streetcar

Former Toronto police officer James Forcillo was convicted of attempted murder in the killing of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim on an empty streetcar.
Rachel Browne
12.6.18
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