Beauty Contest

Daniel J. Martinez at LAXART Kept PST Relevant

Mat Gleason | Posted 05.27.2012

Mat Gleason

By now Los Angeles is awakening to a Pacific Standard Time hangover and if we never see another black and white photo of a wannabe beatnik sucking up ...

PHOTOS: Romani Beauty Pageant Kicks Off In Bucharest

Posted 05.25.2011

Romani girls donned spangled skirts and sexy tops as they rehearsed dance numbers for the annual "Miss Piranda" beauty pageant in Bucharest. As th...

'The Road From Ruin': Are We Naive Idiots For Thinking Business Can Be Anything But Greedy?

Matthew Bishop | Posted 05.25.2011

Matthew Bishop

We don't believe capitalism will ever be perfect, or that you can entirely drive out the dark side of human nature. But we can do a lot better than we have done so far.

Gyrofocus: Modern Fireplace Is Voted World's Most Beautiful Object (PHOTO)

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 05.25.2011

Here's one beauty contest where objectification is the goal, literally. The Pulchra design competition in Italy searches far and wide for the 'World's...

The Anti-Nuke Beauty Contest (PHOTOS)(NSFW)

wired.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Miss Atom, the beauty contest for the Russian nuclear industry, has earned a fair amount of press, in part because of the now-infamous photo of a post...