Understanding a Seventeenth-Century “Brain Scan.” By Benjamin Breen.

This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016.

When Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers hit theaters 16 years ago today, most American critics slammed it. In the New York Times, Janet Maslin panned the “crazed, lurid spectacle,” as featuring “raunchiness tailor-made for teen-age boys.” Jeff Vice, in the Deseret News, called it “a nonstop splatterfest so devoid of taste and logic that it makes even the most brainless summer blockbuster look intelligent.” Roger Ebert, who had praised the “pointed social satire” of Verhoeven’s Robocop...

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Brilliant satirical comic imagines what policy would look like if the UN focused on eliminating extreme wealth.

Nine months after the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in which some of France's most celebrated cartoonists were massacred, the satirical magazine began moving Tuesday into new high-security offices in southern Paris, sources said. The remaining members of the editorial team have left their temporary home at the Paris offices of the French daily Liberation, which took in the survivors of the jihadi gun attack at Charlie Hebdo in January.

This summer I went to an exhibition about the best satirical - political - societal cartoonist in the world named "De Gouden Hoed" (Dutch-Flemish for The Golden Hat). His work should definitely be there, because I think he could win.

Earlier this month it was the photo of a lifeless Syrian toddler named Alan Kurdi. Now, it's cartoons published by Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French magazine, which are riffing on that heartbreaking image. And while many in France interpret the cartoons not as mocking the boy at all and instead part of their tradition of satire, many people on social media have been offended by the cartoons.

The Weeknd sings about sex a lot, and it almost always sounds like a miserable experience. Who wants that? Do you? If yes, please ask yourself why. Actually, I’m going to stop you right there and assume that it’s because you are lost. Luckily, I found you—and I’m here to tell you something: Do not do that. Do not fuck the Weeknd.

Steve Cutts' brilliant animation about mans relationship with the natural world, viz., the destructiveness of our consumer culture

Art isn’t all fairytale photoshoots and landscape shots – it can also act as catalyst of change. And Steve Cutts thinks that many things in the world should be different.

SEATTLE—In response to accusations of an abusive workplace environment, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos assured employees Tuesday that the company’s human resources staff was working 100 hours a week to address their complaints.

In an e-mail, Jeff Bezos said that the company would begin grading its workers on empathy and “culling” the least empathetic ten per cent.

According to critics, Sanders has cynically targeted so-called “truth-based voters” to build support for his Presidential bid.

According to reports, Jindal has surged in the GOP poll after an electrifying performance at the Republican 2016 presidential "Happy Hour" debate.

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