Supermodel Christy Turlington Burns went into the hospital in 2003, expecting to simply deliver her first child, Grace. Instead, she found herself hemorrhaging on the delivery table. Through that dark experience, Turlington Burns found her life's calling.

Can Rashida Jones revive the comics industry? Her debut series, Frenemy of the State, promises action, adventure, and Perez Hilton parodies - but will that be enough to hook female readers into the series?

Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam — better known as M.I.A. — is both rebel and scholar, educator and trickster, masterfully courting controversy. She just grabbed headlines by tweeting a New York Times writer's phone number. But what message is she sending?

On Sunday, Barack Obama railed against "iPods, iPads, Xboxes, and PlayStations" which make information "a distraction" but a new study finds a link between happiness and access to technology, particularly in developing nations. Why is there such a disconnect?

Do sexy men and smart writing make for good reading? After spotting Filament magazine on my local newsstand - featuring the tagline "the thinking woman's crumpet" - I unwrapped what I thought was a new ladymag and, well, rediscovered porn.

Paying $8.25 to talk to a live (perhaps semi-nude) girl over the internet seems like a porn site pop-up ad, but it's actually the business plan for GameCrush - a company aiming to link male gamers and willing PlayDates.

What's to blame for the achievement gap between black and white schoolchildren? While an entry in the Guardian's Comment is Free blames black women for "feminising" boys, Essence magazine discovers that the problem is far more complicated.

In today's Huffington Post, Laura Beck issues a "Wake Up Call to Kirstie Alley" after watching previews for Alley's new A&E show Kirstie Alley's Big Life. But does the blame lie with Alley or the television watching public?

What would force someone to spend $8,600 taking out ads in major newspapers proclaiming "I Am A Bad Woman?" For Hwang Myoung-eun, the full page polemic the only way to vent her frustration as a working mother.

Nestled in the pages of the March issue of Self magazine, right after a feature on jazzing up chicken and veggie dishes, is a piece called "Meet the Swingers." And no, Self editors aren't talking about dancers.

"The new face of online gaming is feisty, foxy and female." The fact that women play World of Warcraft isn't exactly a secret. So why did the Times of London present the game as some new form of online dating?

1. White men are only consolation prizes. 2. Reference Something New. 3. Mention all her friends are doing it. 4. Ignore all other ethnicities/races. 5. Reinforce the only alternative is to die alone. [Washington Post]

In the wake of a controversial decision to pull sexually themed applications from the iTunes store, Apple is toying with adding a new "explicit" category to its current offerings. While my inner feminist cheers, my inner technophile is concerned.

Focus on the Family's advertisement on the National Collegiate Athletic Association's website was removed as part of an ongoing debate about organizations accepting ads from the anti-gay, anti-choice Christian organization. [AP]

I fucking love Gina Torres, so I was excited to hear that she is the voice of Superwoman in the new film Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. I was not thrilled with her comments on women in comics.

Rapper Nicki Minaj catapulted to popularity in a matter of months, going from virtual unknown to appearing on tracks alongside Mariah Carey and Ludacris. Sadly, the shelf life for women in the hip-hop limelight is less than two years.

Today at Forbes Woman, Mary Ellen Egan questions the cause for the persistent wage gap between men and women. But where are the solutions?

Japanese synchronized swimmers will be banned from the national team if they show up with dyed hair, elaborate nail art, or piercings. The team has been accused of "looking more like rock stars than swimmers. "[Reuters]

Does a "sexualized" avatar invite disrespectful behavior online? While conducting an experiment to measure human empathy toward human actors compared with digital representations, researchers discovered a strange quirk: men judged the avatar pleading for sympathy more harshly than the actress.