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[Shane Ormonde] recently learned how to measure distance using just a webcam, a laser, and everyone’s favorite math — trigonometry. Since then he’s thrown the device onto a stepper motor, and now has ...

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Cheating shouldn't be tolerated in any sport — and it certainly has no place on MTV's The Challenge. But that's exactly what happened in this week's episode of season 41, Vets and New Threats. The ...

You know how in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare famously wrote, “And though she be but little, she is fierce”? Yeah, that basically sums up your clit. Just the glans of the clitoris—which is ...

The F Word is a series celebrating what it means to be fat. How do fat people have sex? Just like everyone else, of course! Fat sex, skinny sex, or any sex in between, it’s all about what feels right, ...

Warning: this story contains spoilers from the Sept. 24 episode of MTV's The Challenge. The episode began with the usual amount of drama and strategizing, as the cast had learned that this week's ...