JONATHAN LIU
Forcibly Chopping Long Hair is Perfectly Normal: A Visual History
How fair is it to hold 17-year-old Mitt's actions against today's candidate? After all, the current president has admitted to both eating dog meat and doing "a little blow when [he] could afford it" in his youth. And really, is forcibly removing a part...
The Potentially-Alien F-22 Raptor Wasn't Designed for Oxygen-Breathers
Notice a pattern? The weak link in the next gen of manned military aircraft is invariably the man (or nowadays, woman). Pilots need oxygen. They need information fed to eyes that never stay in one place, in heads that come in a maddening array of...
Meatloaf and Celine Dion Achieve Singularity, Scientists Hide Evidence for Two Decades
It sounds like a party trick: Cue up the videos for Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" and Meatloaf's "I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" and hit play at the same time. One expects wacky "Dark Side of the Rainbow...
Jay-Z's Euro-punk Future Cost Him At Least $1.15 Million
Four years ago this week, the value of the euro reached an all-time high against the U.S. dollar: $1.594 to €1. Jay-Z — then as now a businessman as well as a business, man — must have seemed to all observers something rarer still. Namely, a successful
The Rise of Wikipedian Statecraft: How Azawad, Spurned by the U.N., Earned Its Recognition Online
No foreign government or supranational organization has recognized Azawad's sovereignty, and none seems forthcoming. But Wikipedia does.
Wikipedia, Azawad, and the Art of Internet Statecraft
Snubbed by the U.N., the Independent State of Azawad earned legitimacy online.
Groupon and Now-Dead Pets.com Are Eerily Similar
A dour earnings report propped up by outlandishly sunny accounting methods seems to clinch it: Groupon is destined to become the Pets.com of Dot-com Bubble 2.0.
Crisis of Monotheism: Is Committing Acts of Yoga Heresy?
There is a specter haunting the Abrahamic faiths, with guilt-ridden health nuts and bored human-interest journalists alike accelerating matters toward the violence of a "definitive decision":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_council, with bloody...
99-Years Later, Titanic Still Sunk
Ninety-nine years ago tonight, _RMS Titanic_ struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and, early the next morning, sunk. It's been abetting adventures--and, on occasion, French-Canadian power ballads--ever since. The wreck itself was discovered in...
What Did Chernobyl Do, Really? (Video)
Official science is revisiting the health impacts of the disaster, with some grim but ambiguous findings. The biggest changes aren't to be found on the irradiated Ukrainian steppe, however, so much as in the human psyche. Waylaid by terrorism and...