Photographer Steven Meisel’s photo editorial for Vogue, which depicted an oil-drenched blond on a hill of jagged seaside rocks, has created quite the controversy in the photo world. Watch the video inside the shoot.
The Feeding Frenzy The venture capital valuations for still-have-that-new-car-smell startups like Quora, FourSquare, Blippy are reaching unprecedented levels, and we wanted to find out why. Top VCs Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway and David Hornik came by the TechCrunch offices to debate the issue. Four month old Blippy is worth around $38 million. Quora, still in…
A real-life experiment is playing out in front of computer screens all over the world, as millions of people regularly consume porn. Scientists, who have begun to study the potential consequences, are divided. One person to have addressed the issue very openly is advertising maven Cindy Gallop. During a TED conferencein Monterrey, California, 49-year-old…
Craig Venter creates synthetic life form Craig Venter and his team have built the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporated it into a cell to make what they call the world’s first synthetic life form While it is correct to say that the individual cell was not created, a new line of cells…
U.S. air travelers have lodged complaints over use of full-body security scanners in the past year, charging they violate personal privacy and may be harmful to their health, documents released on Tuesday showed. The complaints ranged from concern about genitals being seen and the use of the devices on children, to anger over passengers not…
One of the most arresting images in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Agatha that struck Central America in recent days has to be the giant sinkhole that opened up in Guatemala City.
It is the revolution of fighting the patriarch. By Mona Eltahawy The Guardian There’s a thin line between sex and politics, and it is nonsense to keep repeating the mantra that Egypt’s revolution “wasn’t about gender”. What revolution worth its salt can be fuelled by demands of freedom and dignity and not have…