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SENIOR EDITOR, NEWS Grist is an online news site that uses smarts and humor to shine a light on the big green issues changing our world. Now in its 16th year, Grist is poised to take its unique brand of journalism to a new level of growth and impact. This is a rare opportunity to…
It’s 2015, and feminism is still a dirty word. But it’s a real expletive on places like Tinder, where sexism is all-too-often all-too-visible. That’s why Laura Nowak created the Instagram account Feminist_Tinder, showcasing what happens when women put the word feminist into their Tinder bios. For the account, Nowak screenshotted various conversations she had…
While Friends went off the air over a decade ago, one fan fic writer has still been hard at work perfecting an alternate ending, which he delivered via Twitter this week. This is The One Where Things Get DARK. In Gareth Stranks’s version, the ending reveals that “it was all the meth-addled fantasy of a…
Begin: WordPress Article Content It was supposed to take 18 months. But with React Native, Facebook built its iOS Ads Manager app in 5 months, and then ported it to Android in just 3 more months. That’s because React Native let Facebook’s engineers work faster and reuse the JavaScript backend. Coders have dreamed of a…
George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin who was last seen hawking paintings of the Confederate battle flag that praised the Second Amendment, took to Twitter in the wake of yesterday’s shootings of Alison Parker and Adam Ward to condemn the “Black [piece of shit]” who murdered them and the “Ignorant Baboon” in the White…
Graduate students plan to participate in an all-day celebration of their worth to the university Wednesday that some are calling a “walkout.” The event is being held in response to the administration failing to meet the deadline for seven demands listed by graduate students last week. Issued on Aug. 19, the Forum on Graduate Rights…
CREDIT: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has built his campaign on belligerent — even outright racist — rhetoric. On Tuesday, for example, Trump told Jorge Ramos, a prominent Mexican-American journalist, to “go back to Univision” shortly before one of Trump’s bodyguards pushed Ramos out of the room. Outside of immigration policy, however,…
This is what we will tell you about the two young TV journalists for Virginia station WDBJ who were shot to death on Wednesday, on air. Reporter Alison Parker had just turned 24, and had celebrated her birthday with her colleague and boyfriend, Chris Hurst. Cameraman Adam Ward, 27, was engaged to the station’s morning producer, Melissa…
While we know guns had nothing to do with the tragedy today that took the lives of Virginia TV station WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, in addition to the suicide of the shooter, a disgruntled former employee of the station, we thought we’d mention some other recent deaths in which guns had…
After the biggest drop since the Great Recession on Monday, U.S. stocks today posted their biggest gain in four years, because the stock market is driven mainly by bullshit. http://gawker.com/is-the-stock-m… What happened between Monday morning—when investors around the world were selling stocks as fast as possible—and today, when investors around the world were buying so…