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Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty Pollyanna!

With projects like "IMG_0001," an online compendium of YouTube home videos, Riley Walz is calling attention to the hidden deposits of personal information that power our digital lives.

If only there were a device that could prevent me from having a social life.

Our parasocial dismay has become confused with social critique.

The year's strongest films offered thrilling affirmation of cinema as a global medium.

Why does hepatitis B, which can lead to liver cancer, often go undetected, even though tests exist?

Readers spent the most time this year on articles involving fraudulent identities, Kanye West, the turbulent U.S. election and its aftermath, and other memorable topics.

Truly, bureaucracy is the thief of joy.

In one border town, some Syrians were fleeing to Lebanon, as others celebrated Bashar al-Assad's ouster, or returned from exile in search of the missing.

Movies are scored by Hans Zimmer. Films are scored by someone who has said, at least once, "I don't feel challenged by Hans Zimmer's work."