Drawn by his concertlike sermons and pop-idol looks, Carl Lentz's fast growing flock of groupies includes Justin Bieber, NBA superstars, and young Hollywood celebs. But whom, exactly, is this new apostle of cool seeking to glorify?
Three of the top 20 investors in Microsoft Corp are lobbying the board to press for Bill Gates to step down as chairman of the software company he co-founded 38 years ago, according to people familiar with matter.
On the surface, it could be any other high-end watch from the mid-1800s. Inside, however, amidst the cogs and gears, is a different story.
We've known for far too long that the War on Drugs has been a failure, but the statistics reported in the British Medical Journal by Evan Wood, of the University of British Columbia's Urban Health Research Initiative, are astounding.
A love of craft beer culture has led an increasing number of homebrewers to daydream of quitting their desk jobs to take a shot at starting their own brewery. How hard can it be?
Do you wish you could live the Silicon Valley VC lifestyle? The glamor? The apps? The yacht racing and indifference to humanity? Thanks to recent legislative changes, you can't actually have money to invest, but it's effortless to fake it—and maybe even scam people!
Too much of anything is rarely a good thing.
When some workplaces do security audits, they hack their own employees. Confession time: Fast Company tried it, too. Here's what happened.
The smartphone revolution has all but obliterated devices whose sole function is capturing images. Icons like Kodak and Polaroid got walloped; camcorders, like the once-posh Flip cam, went out of style; and sales of point-and-shoot digital cameras plummeted, too. But one company has thrived.
That depends on who you are, and what the robot's for.
Shaken by sobs, his head bowed, a former Guatemalan commando testified last week that he wept as he hurled a little boy to his death in a village well 31 years ago while a commanding officer, Lt. Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes, snarled: “This is a job for men!” Sosa's charge? Fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.
As biology has gotten better at tracking down the beasts that elude us, unlikely legends are becoming real animals.
More and more women are jumping outside their marriages in search of no-strings-attached sex. All it takes to find a willing partner? An Internet connection and an account on a site like AshleyMadison.com. One writer and monogamist went to meet the growing flock of lady Don Drapers.
If you had to invade another country, how would you do it? Believe it or not, the United States military spent a lot of time pondering that question in the late 1920s, when it came up with a plan to invade its closest neighbor, Canada.
There is a limit to the number of cars that can pass by a given point on the highway in a given amount of time, and that limit is one car every 2 seconds, per lane.
It's four in the morning and you're stuck in your hotel room, bored out of your skull but wide awake. Thanks jet lag! That's the price you pay for changing so many time zones in a single airplane ride. Here's why it happens, and how you can prevent it from ruining your trip.
Authorized by Congress, the CIA has started sending weapons to Syrian rebels. But under a legal definition of terrorism adopted by the U.S. government after the Sept. 11 attacks, those same rebel groups are considered terrorist organizations.
How tech companies gave up on the ones that love them most.
Obama snuck the tech giant into the Obamacare fight on Tuesday afternoon, trying to drum up a little patience from Americans as his administration grapples with a glitchy rollout.
Simple logic would suggest that “gay genes” would not survive in the evolution of our species. And yet androphilic males — that is, males who are sexually oriented toward other males — show up in cultures around the world. Why?
Winston Churchill authorized the use of the “most devastating chemical weapon ever devised” against the Russian Bolsheviks at the end of the First World War, a noted historical author has revealed.
The jet engine ultimately made it possible for all 535 members of Congress to fly home, pretty much every single weekend. And you might think that this would be good, but you would be wrong.
There are two ways to explain why Bigfoot can’t be found. There’s the conventional view — that Bigfoot doesn’t exist — and then there’s what we might call the Donald Rumsfeld view: that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. In this view, we haven’t found Bigfoot because we haven’t looked hard enough. Specifically, we haven’t looked with drones.
OkCupid, match.com and eHarmony promise the world, but are actually incentivised to keep you alone, furiously and miserably clicking through thousands of profiles in the hope of finding love.
Being hung by incompetent executioners can be a blessing in disguise.
Word clouds from the Facebook messages of 75,000 volunteers.
Paul Ford does not know where his children are, but for the most unlikely of reasons. After he and his wife had twins using a high-tech fertility procedure, they were left with two frozen embryos — and a whole new understanding of the meaning of parenthood.
In 1916, Tom "Shotgun" Rogers earned himself a piece of baseball immortality—by killing a former teammate with a fastball.
If you've ever put gas in a car, you'll know that the pump magically knows when to stop spewing fuel into the tank. That's super useful, and safe too. But how does it know when to stop?
New research has found an on-off switch in the brain for hunger. Could it stop us overeating?
This guy...
Rail-thin, mop-topped, and Vulcan-faced, 4chan founder Christopher Poole, 25, is standing with friends in an Atlanta parking lot when a stranger drives up and parks a few spaces away. It’s the dead of night. The driver waves Poole over, opens his trunk. Inside is a Mosin-Nagant, a Russian rifle known around the Internet as the Moist Nugget.
Behold the Mother of All Swiss Army Knives, a multi-tool created by John S. Holler in Germany around 1880.
The shutdown has closed all federally funded parks and memorials. But a group of World War II veterans who came all the way from Mississippi wouldn’t take no for an answer.
For nearly 110 years, since the advent of underground trains in New York City, the metal sidewalk grates have been about much more than mundane natural ventilation for miles of subterranean subway tunnels. But they'll no longer be built.
The new movie “Gravity” is the closest most of us will ever come to going into space, and that may be for the best. Unfortunately, with all this verisimilitude, there is a hole in the plot: a gaping orbital impossibility big enough to drive the Starship Enterprise through.
So much of this movie is just Joseph Gordon-Levitt masturbating in front of a computer, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt narrating about masturbating in front of a computer.
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