Amy Schumer was not only considered as a possible replacement for outgoing host Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, but she was actually offered the job and turned it down, according to an interview she gave with The Daily Beast.
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When Jon Stewart announced he was leavingThe Daily Show, many people wondered who would replace him.
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As we know now, the role went to comedian Trevor Noah, but in a feature run by the New York Times Magazine this month it was revealed that Amy Poehler and Chris Rock were also among those offered The Daily Show gig.
While she was not mentioned in the feature, Schumer told The Daily Beast she was offered the Daily Show hosting gig.
LOS ANGELES—In an effort to better reflect the diverse backgrounds and experiences of their audience, Disney officials this week introduced Lily of Hazelberry, the company’s first virgin princess. “While our fans have long been enchanted by Belle, Ariel, and Elsa, we wanted to create a relatable princess for girls everywhere who are still virgins,” said Disney executive vice president Zenia Mucha, describing the only Disney princess who has never had sexual intercourse as a quirky, confident, and pure 14-year-old ascendant to the throne of the magical kingdom of Hazelberry. “All Disney princesses have extraordinary stories and inner qualities that make them wonderful and unique, but we’ve always lacked a heroine who hasn’t yet slept with her boyfriend or another male character. We are proud that Lily will finally provide a princess to look up to for the large demographic of young girls who, due to age ...
YES! I've been waiting for this day. Now fat is good for me, woohoo! Next up, I want a report about how swedish fish is the perfect, nutritionally complete food!
There were plenty of tasty tidbits packed into the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee report that came out back in February.
As we reported, the panel of nutrition experts that wrote the report said it was OK to eat an egg a day. The scientific evidence now shows it won't raise the amount of LDL cholesterol – the bad kind of cholesterol — in your blood or raise the risk of heart disease.
The panel, which advises the government on how to update the Dietary Guidelines every five years, also pushed the envelope a bit by recommending a plant-focused diet — not only because it promotes health, but because it's also more environmentally sustainable.
But as two leading nutrition researchers argue in an opinion piece out this week in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, there was another, even more important recommendation in the committee's report that's largely been overlooked: It's all about fat.
For many years, the government has put a cap on how much fat we consume – recommending that we get only 20 to 35 percent of our daily calories from this nutrient.
What the new report advised instead was to "put the emphasis on optimizing types of dietary fat and not reducing total fat." The advice to limit total fat to prevent obesity was also gutted.
This is a subtle but powerful change, Dariush Mozaffarian and David Ludwig write: "With these quiet statements, the DGAC report reversed nearly four decades of nutrition policy that placed priority on reducing total fat consumption throughout the population."
Dariush Mozaffarian is dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, and David Ludwig is a professor of pediatrics and nutrition at Harvard University and the director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children's Hospital. They've both authored research that has, over the years, done a lot to help shift the thinking on both macronutrients – like carbs and fat – and patterns of eating.
But let's back up a second. When and why did fat become such a big villain? As Allison Aubrey has reported, it started back in the 1970s, and with the first set of dietary guidelines for Americans in 1980. The message was: Decrease fat and you'll decrease saturated fat.
Back then, scientists were mostly concerned with saturated fat. And indeed, the latest evidence shows that saturated fats can raise levels of artery-clogging LDL cholesterol. But demonizing all fat set off the fat-free boom, and a big increase in carbohydrate and sugar intake followed, which led to Americans becoming even fatter.
And, as Mozaffarian and Ludwig point out, another problem with telling people to limit total fat is that people end up eating fewer monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats – the kind found in nuts, vegetable oils and fish – which are really healthful.
Now, it seems, the government has an opportunity to set the record straight on fat. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services are now reviewing the committee's report and will update the guidelines later this year.
Penny Kris-Etherton, professor of nutrition at Penn State and the chair of the American Heart Association's nutrition committee, says she thinks it's unlikely that lifting limits on total fat intake will be much of a sticking point. "There is a pretty solid consensus now that it's the type of fat that's really important," she tells The Salt.
The American Heart Association still recommends "selecting fat-free, 1 percent fat and low-fat dairy products" on its website. But Kris-Etherton says that advice is out of date. "They need to change that," she says.
Kris-Etherton says that in practice, the association isn't defending the low-fat position anymore. The AHA's new lifestyle guideline implies that it's best to substitute polyunsaturated fats — found in things like almonds and avocados — for saturated fats.
"A lot of people still look at how much fat [is in foods], and we're now saying don't focus on that: Look at the quality of fat you're consuming," she says.
Reddit’s decision to police “behavior, not ideas” isn’t just foolish — it’s reckless.
Reddit allows communities like this to exist under its "banning behavior, not ideas" strategy.
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If, last week, as the world mourned the brutal church murder of nine black men and women in Charleston, South Carolina, you were to visit Reddit's most popular racist community and scroll down the right side of the landing page — just past the rotating memorial image carousel of white people who've been murdered, injured, or robbed by black people — you'd see Reddit's familiarly cheerful alien logo, originally drawn by Reddit co-founder and chair Alexis Ohanian. Above that logo was a screenshot, taken from a comment Reddit CEO Ellen Pao made the week prior regarding Reddit's decision to shut down five hateful subreddit communities. It read, "We're banning behavior, not ideas." And sitting above Pao's screenshot and Ohanian's creation rested three lines of bolded and shadowed text: "Coontown Supported By Reddit."
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It was a striking little triptych, and one that was intended to provoke visitors while simultaneously justifying the existence of a virulently anti-black web forum that is growing at a rapid clip:
#1 is why I sleep hanging upside down, like a bat. It's how I keep my youthful appearance!
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
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1. Time passes faster for your face than for your feet (assuming you're standing up). Einstein's theory of relativity dictates that the closer you are to the centre of the Earth, the slower time goes – and this has been measured. At the top of Mount Everest, a year would be about 15 microseconds shorter than at sea level.
2. A second isn't what you think it is. Scientifically, it's not defined as 1/60th of a minute, but as "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom".
3. What you think of as a day – how long it takes the Earth to rotate – isn't 24 hours. It's 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.2 seconds. The reason it's 24 hours from sunrise to sunrise is because every day the Earth moves further in its orbit round the sun – and the change in its position lengthens the day slightly.
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4. When the dinosaurs were alive, there were 370 days in a year. The Earth's spin is getting slower because the moon's gravity is acting as a drag, so days are getting longer, by about 1.7 milliseconds per century.
5. The smallest standard scientific measure of time is the "Planck time". It takes you about five hundred and fifty thousand trillion trillion trillion Planck times to blink once, quickly.
If I won the lottery and didn't have to work, I'd probably get one of these.
When it comes to racing games, and especially simulator-style titles, using a standard controller is fine for casual, laid-back play. But the genre really comes into its own with a dedicated wheel/pedal setup. There are a number of affordable options...
And what do those metal parts do? According to the engineer, nothing: They're just there to add weight and make the headphones feel more substantial – though this has been disputed by commenters on the Gismodo blog, who say they do serve a purpose.
Boring: You got: Classic Don Cherry! You’re old school and simple. You’re not overly flashy but you’ve still got that badass collar which adds the perfect amount of flare.
Yeah, cause they just got beat to the punch by Lexus!
Buried deep in the bowels of Google's top-secret X lab is the technology that could, theoretically, enable us to all have a Back to the Future-style hoverboard. Unfortunately, according to the lab's director of moonshots, that's where it's going to s...
Just take a minute to feast your eyes on this masterpiece.
Halmat Givara
Perfection.
Halmat Givara
The pizza, known as the Vulkan, has been created by the Nya Gul & Bla pizzeria in Pitea, in northern Sweden.
The eatery shared a picture of the creation on Facebook last week and has so far received around five and a half thousands comments from people asking where they can find this culinary masterpiece.
The pizza includes such delicious ingredients as pepperoni, steak, bacon and most importantly chips (or fries for our American readers).
Chef Halmat Givara told BuzzFeed the pizza was created around two months ago but the restaurant only decided to make it public and share with customers in last few days.
Ummmm: "You got: Quiet You don’t talk that much, you’re more of a listener. You observe the world around you, you think before you act, and you avoid conflicts. People love to spend time with you because you’re down-to-Earth and kind."
When you play the Game of Thrones, you guess or you fail. SEASON 5 SPOILERS TO FOLLOW.
According to the product's website, "The Pigg-O-Stat is an all-in-one pediatric immobilization device designed for positioning infants and young children for an appropriate x-ray without significant complications."
This will make you want to do everything in stop-motion.
From the guys that brought you the mega-viral, Real GTA clip, CorridorDigital is back! This time, they are taking on stop-motion karate and it is truly mind-blowingly amazing.
When Google unveiled its urban improvement initiative, Sidewalk Labs, it left one big question: what was this new outfit actually working on? As of today, you should have a good idea. Sidewalk and a group of investors have bought and merged two key c...
Just after rescuing his family from The Big One in San Andreas, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is set to save the world in a film adaptation of Midway's arcade classic Rampage, Deadline reports. Now, you might wonder how a game about a giant gorilla, liza...
PITTSBURGH—Noting that the people he works with have only ever seen his moronic office persona, local accountant Stan Bedford told reporters he was excited to look like an entirely different type of idiot in front of his coworkers when they go out for after-work beers Tuesday. “These guys just know me as the timid, soft-spoken doofus who screws up expense reports and contributes nothing of value to staff meetings, but I think they’ll be surprised by the fun-loving, boisterous numbskull I can be once I leave the office,” said Bedford, adding that he was looking forward to grabbing a beer and revealing more of his airheaded, unintelligent personality to the rest of the accounting team. “It’ll be nice to kick back with these guys at Sherry’s Tap, where I can just be my pathetic dimwit self. And who knows? Making simple-minded, imbecilic small talk with people ...
When it comes to racing games, and especially simulator-style titles, using a standard controller is fine for casual, laid-back play. But the genre really comes into its own with a dedicated wheel/pedal setup. There are a number of affordable options...
Buried deep in the bowels of Google's top-secret X lab is the technology that could, theoretically, enable us to all have a Back to the Future-style hoverboard. Unfortunately, according to the lab's director of moonshots, that's where it's going to s...
When Google unveiled its urban improvement initiative, Sidewalk Labs, it left one big question: what was this new outfit actually working on? As of today, you should have a good idea. Sidewalk and a group of investors have bought and merged two key c...
Just after rescuing his family from The Big One in San Andreas, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is set to save the world in a film adaptation of Midway's arcade classic Rampage, Deadline reports. Now, you might wonder how a game about a giant gorilla, liza...
