8 Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Geeks. As any nerd can tell you, being smarter than everyone else has a price.
Poor social skills, being grossly over or under weight, being terrible at sports. Skin problems, probably bad eyesight ... you get the idea. Yet, there is a whole class of nerds who break that universal rule, who somehow wind up smarter than us, yet also, are so good at being tough or being hot that they've got legions of adoring fans. Maybe they're just lucky, or maybe they turned their backs on God and sought solace in the infernal embrace of a giving demonic patron. The fact is, it is not fair that these people exist and we suggest you take it up with your local clergy. We're talking about people like ... When Golden Globe winner Natalie Portman was 10 years old, a representative of Revlon found her at a pizza parlor and asked her if she wanted to model.
Portman was a research assistant in a psychology lab and put in some time working for the youngest law professor in the history of Harvard, Alan Dershowitz.
6 Artists You Didn't Know Made Your Favorite Movie Moments. The point when everybody gets bored during the Academy Awards is when they give out all of those technical awards to people you've never heard of.
Awards for editing, cinematography, music and some other ones we can't remember ... you know, the ones that they give out on the dinky side stage or even sometimes just in the aisles if they're feeling really lazy. But you are fans of some of these "technical" guys. Huge fans, in some cases. You just didn't know it. Ben Burtt: Decided What Your Childhood Sounded Like It's a scene you've probably seen a hundred times, but there's one thing you always take for granted.
Darth Vader breathes really loudly. Ability to force-choke not included. The high-pitched sound the blasters make? But his work didn't stop with Star Wars. Burtt discovered it. We would keep talking about that, but it turns out there's one more Burtt Star Wars sound we should mention: the lightsaber sound. Liam Neeson was constantly breaking character to weep openly in shame. The 6 Most Disastrous Attempts at Internet Damage Control.
They call it the Streisand effect, and it happens any time people try to suppress Internet criticism, then see it blow up hilariously in their faces.
As these companies can tell you, sometimes it's better to just let it go. Suing to Make Science Stop Being Right All the Time Chiropractors belong to a medical discipline that may or may not actually do anything to heal people. Despite some evidence that there's value in what chiropractors do, many people think they're full of shit, and they aren't afraid to voice this opinion. One such man, Simon Singh, decided to tell the chiropractic community just exactly what he thought of it in an article blasting the entire profession. He was probably just jealous. More specifically, he targeted chiropractors' claims that their services could help children with asthma or colic, and of course they were making a fortune off these claims. The Backfire: "Oh yeah, this'll cure the shit out of your AIDS. " The Fallout: As for the unfortunate Mr. Adjust this. 5 Things The Media Loves Pretending Are News.
Reporting the news is really hard.
We've seen those poor guys standing in the hurricanes, trying to hold on to their microphone while debris flies by. And it's a good thing we have them; blogs and Twitter are nice, but to find out what's really going on in the world, at some point you need good old-fashioned journalism. So can you blame a news outlet for using shortcuts and falling into the same old mistakes and cliches over and over again, just to fill space?
Yes, yes we can. Let's Ask the Idiots About Science When it comes to matters of opinion or personal beliefs, it is absolutely the duty of the news media to report both sides (and any extra sides there may be, on those rare odd occasions when there are somehow more than two). Image courtesy of Faithmouse.com When it comes to matters of fact, however, they absolutely do not have that duty.