The EFF Files

Whether these headlines display a slight form of idiocy or simple fatigue, they prove that writers can have “off” days. In fact, many of us have more than we’d care to admit. I’ll go a step further and say that most of us often think in terms similar to the headline in the photo.

From Angry Bird, a video game app that’s soared into popularity recently, to the Raptor Resource Project’s Eagle Nest cam, people the world over are fascinated by a new kind of GTL (think “Jersey Shore”): Guts, Tail feathers, and a lot of Love gone to the birds. The Raptor Resource Project is a non-profit organization that […]

This morning on the Today show, licensed therapist Sarah Brokaw (Tom Brokaw’s daughter) introduced her new book, Fortytude (Hyperion Books), which launches March 1. Brokaw said she reached a time in her life, in her late-30s, when she recognized that she was aging, and she hadn’t reached certain personal ideals of who she believed she would […]

Today, as I did research for an article I was writing for The Daily Beast on Oscar’s “Other” Curse (the one that some people, like film critic Leonard Maltin, call the “F. Murray Abraham syndrome“), I came across a story that used the word FUGLY. I thought, do people really still use that word? I mean, I […]

Valentine’s Day may be over, but keeping your love life alive has its advantages. The more sex we have, the happier we are — according to a study at Dartmouth College, which takes into account a person’s stress levels, positive and negative life-event recall, and brain activity. As it turns out, sex not only boosts […]