On Saturday, I saw a flyer taped to one of those green lamp post boxes outside of Scratch Bread in Bed-Stuy advertising “Cat Hair Pills.” The poster’s body copy read: “Cat hair pills available. Made from the finest hair of organic, free-range cats with only occasional antibiotic usage. Two cat choices available, please specify which […]
Anti-street harassment group Hollaback!, in partnership with Cornell University, has released the second part of its international survey on catcalling. With over 16,000 respondents from 21 countries, it stands as the largest study on street harassment to date. The results show, depressingly, that harassment is a universal experience for women all across the world. What’s […]
A horse veterinarian who conducted a study on stress levels in carriage horses gave a presentation to City Council members on Wednesday and claimed that the horses are not stressed, the Daily News reports. Joe Bertone, a specialist in equine medicine at Western University of Health Sciences, told several council members and their representatives that […]
From a documentary with a title like Deep Web: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and Silk Road, one expects new details on how the Silk Road vendors and community operates, how bitcoin enables deep web markets, and a discussion that could bridge the gap for the average person between the anarchic cypherpunks and fear-mongering government […]
Allow me to set the mood: DNAinfo warns that the NYPD “fears an influx of grifters” this summer after a similar crimewave last year where sexy thieves would target clubgoers with fancy watches, go to a private location, roofie them, and then run off with the jewels. “New York is where the money is, and […]
Jello, Coney Island. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Mr OneTeas, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The de Blasio administration has identified neighborhoods most vulnerable to extreme heat, which is becoming a bigger problem in New York City every year as the climate changes. A study by the commission behind de Blasio’s OneNYC sustainability plan has recognized Upper Manhattan, especially central Harlem, a large swath of the South Bronx, and Brooklyn […]
Ross Ulbricht, the convicted former admin of the deep web black market Silk Road, is going to be sentenced on Friday. He faces a mandatory minimum after being found guilty of drug charges, with a maximum sentence of life. Both the defense and prosecution have sent letters to the judge in support or against a […]
If there’s one thing that Facebook has taught us all, it’s that social media is depressing — and it’s not the only over-sharing network that sometimes makes life feel like scenes from The Road. Researchers from Pace University’s Psychology Department have learned that Instagram could also cause some users despair. According to the newly released […]
