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Doug Barry
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Dubai’s strategy for fighting the global obesity epidemic? Offer payouts in gold to whomever loses weight (it’s all on the metric system, though, so the weight-to-gold exchange rate isn’t very favorable). Read more

After swimming for 43 straight hours, and with about six miles left to go, distance swimmer Diana Nyad has already broken Penny Palfrey's record for longest swim without the protection of a shark cage. She's almost completed her ultimate goal of swimming from Cuba to Florida, but CNN reports that she's getting a Read more

If you’re bored this weekend and thinking about maybe dressing up like a gumshoe and spying on your neighbors (don’t do it — you’ll for sure discover some horrifying secret and be drawn into a Brian De Palma movie), you’ll definitely want to check in with Detective Work Is Always In Style, a Tumblr account for the Read more

Yesterday, the New York Times endorsed Christine Quinn as the proper Democratic choice for mayor. The other four thousand Democratic candidates can all now resume the task of not distinguishing themselves in any discernible way. Read more