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Finally There’s a Pad Commercial That Shows Real Blood

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Have you ever seen a commercial for pads or tampons? If not, allow us to paint a picture for you. Usually, there is an unnervingly smiley woman, mysterious blue liquids being spilled on pads to demonstrate absorbability (seriously, what is that blue stuff?), and possible frolicking in daisies with vaguely coded terminology like “for that […]

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Gossip Girl Star Ed Westwick Accused of Sexual Assault by Third Woman

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A third woman has come forward with sexual assault allegations against Ed Westwick. In an interview with BuzzFeed published Tuesday, creative producer Rachel Eck alleged that in 2014, the Gossip Girl star “aggressively groped” her breasts at a hotel in Hollywood. Eck’s story has a connection to the first accusation brought against Westwick by actress Kristina Cohen: […]

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Biological Annihilation: A Planet in Loss Mode

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If you’ve been paying attention to what’s happening to the nonhuman life forms with which we share this planet, you’ve likely heard the term “the Sixth Extinction.” If not, look it up.  After all, a superb environmental reporter, Elizabeth Kolbert, has already gotten a Pulitzer Prize for writing a book with that title. Whether the […]