More Sex = More Memories

from StudyFinds A better love life could save your memory during old age Does a poor sex life lead to memory decline? Researchers at Penn State have discovered a potential connection between low sexual satisfaction during middle age and future cognitive decline. The...

Cult of the Dead Cow Now

from The Washington Post Hacking group plans system to encrypt social media and other apps Story by Joseph Menn Hacking group plans system to encrypt social media and other apps © Tom Brenner/For the Washington Post SAN FRANCISCO — Once known for distributing hacking...

James Larkin Gone

from reason Backpage Founder, Alt-Weekly Entrepreneur, and Free Speech Warrior James Larkin Has Died Larkin, 74, took his own life on Monday, just a little over a week before he was slated to stand trial for his role in running the web-classifieds platform Backpage....

Babylon Growing

from The New Yorker Revisiting My Rastafari Childhood Babylon was everything forbidden, and looming all around us—and my father tried to protect us from it at all costs. By Safiya Sinclair The first time I left Jamaica, I was seventeen. I’d graduated from high...

Pee-Wee Gone

from The New York Post Paul Reubens dead: Pee-wee Herman actor was 70 By Brooke Steinberg, Eric Hegedus and Nadine DeNinno Paul Reubens, the actor who made millions around the world laugh with his Pee-wee Herman character, has died. He was 70. “Last night we said...