Should you lift weights to heavy metal? Should you cardio dance to hip hop tracks? Should you run the streets listening to podcasts? NO. Should you work out to techno? To Beyonce? To 50 Cent? To enlivening hard rock? To soothing Sade? Should you jazzercise to jazz and cardio dance to hip hop and do
According to CBS News, a 93-year-old German man has been charged with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder for his role as a guard at Auschwitz concentration camp. Prosecutors say the man—who has not been named to due German privacy laws—served as an SS guard from January 1942 to June 1944 with
On Tuesday, people around the world were able to watch Islamist militants burn a man alive as easily as they could see Rihanna and Kanye's new music video. The face of the victim, Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh, was plastered across Facebook and CNN—and here on Gawker. The moments before his d
BuzzFeed, the prosperous and successful New York-based website geared toward millennials, is respectable and likeable in many ways. It is a competitor of Gawker, though it dwarfs us in its size and reach, and we take interest in reporting on its foibles and successes. The story of BuzzFeed, as told
What were the best movies of 2014? What 2014 TV shows should you catch up on? What were 2014's biggest songs? And why trust just one outlet for answers when you can try all of them? Every December for years, Fimoculous' Rex Sorgatz used to keep a rolling list of year-end lists. He's not doing it any
Here's an encouraging statistic: even though law school graduates now have a much better chance of getting a job than they did just a few years ago, the most recent U.S. law school class is the smallest one in 40 years. Are kids actually getting smarter? The latest numbers from the American Bar Asso
With the Colbert Report coming to an end, Stephen Colbert can do whatever the hell he wants, including selling the naming rights to the show to his new beverage sponsor, Dewar's Scotch. If you liked the Colbert Report, you'll love the ColbDewar's Repewars. Especially the new open, which Colbert cann
Saturday Night Live made host Martin Freeman reprise two roles at once last night, and because Martin Freeman is very talented he did just that, returning to The British Office, which is what it is officially called, in the character of Bilbo Baggins. This is actually quite a good conceit, because i
The Colbert Report has posted its guest list for the final week of the show, and it's solid, but there are no huge surprises: Seth Rogen, Kendrick Lamar, author and Iraq vet Phil Klay, and Grimmy, the Grim Reaper. Wait, what? Rewind, selector: "The Report's final guest will be Stephen's colleag
Yesterday it was announced that Taylor Swift sold 1.3 million copies of her new album 1989, meaning that she moved more records in one week than any other artist has of any new album in the entirety of the past 10 months. This was appropriately being noted as a historic feat before it was even confi