Legendary ABC News reporter Ted Koppel has seen a lot of change in the way news is covered during his lifetime – and clearly not all of it is good.

In a fiery interview with Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly, Koppel turned the tables and laid out a scathing indictment on the entire conservative network’s way of doing business. It was beautiful to watch.

O’Reilly attempted to seek advice from Koppel on how best to approach an interview with Donald Trump. The Republican front runner is known for being brash, aggressive and evasive. O’Reilly put it to his former colleague, “Not an easy interview. How would you do it?”

But Koppel wasn’t having the fake sincerity. O’Reilly, and his ilk at Fox, created this monster.

“You and I have talked about this general subject many times over the years. It’s irrelevant how I would do it. You know who made it irrelevant? You did. You have changed the television landscape over the past 20 years — you took it from being objective and dull to subjective and entertaining. And in this current climate, it doesn’t matter what the interviewer asks him; Mr. Trump is gonna say whatever he wants to say, as outrageous as it may be.”

Thanks to people like O’Reilly, who routinely ignore facts to push a right-wing agenda, Trump can get away with saying anything he wants and the gullible Fox audience will eat it up. Facts no longer matter because they’ve been told for years that the truth has a liberal bias anyway.

When O’Reilly ignored the critique, Koppel again went for the throat. He suggested Fox might try to counter Trump, and this might sound crazy to a guy like O’Reilly, “by some reporting.”

“It’s an old-fashioned concept, but I think demonstrating who and what Mr. Trump is and what his policies really amount to is something you don’t do in an interview. He doesn’t answer the questions.”

Letting Trump control the interview doesn’t work. MSNBC tried it with their townhall and it was a complete disaster. Trump is a showman, what he lacks in substance he makes up for in empty bravado. Instead, Koppel told O’Reilly, try actually exposing the truth for once.

It’s refreshing to see someone so unequivocally call Bill O’Reilly out right to his face. It helps that it comes from a long-time veteran of the news business. O’Reilly had hoped to get some tips from the years of experience under Koppel’s belt, but wound up getting way more than he bargained for.

Watch the video below via Media Matters:

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We live in a big cyber world filled to the brim with dating apps and websites. Anyone these days can try to find love with the click of a button, from farmers and ranchers to the obsessively gluten-free. So, what’s the hubbub with this new one called Carrot Dating, which surprisingly is not the name for either of the previous sites mentioned?

MIT graduate and evident ladies’ man Brandon Wade invented an app that bribes women into going on dates with men. (Although the site’s FAQ page states that the briber can be of any demographic or sexual orientation­—that is, women are allowed to bribe the men, too—77 percent of the bribers are male.) You see, it’s called Carrot Dating in reference to the idiomatic “carrot and stick.” Back in the old days, a cart driver would dangle a carrot attached to a stick in front of a donkey which would trick the donkey into moving forward, thus moving his cart. To Brandon, women are those finicky donkeys who don’t want to follow an unattractive, self-obsessed cart driver unless he dangles a yummy carrot in front of them.

The bribes are obviously not literal carrots, but rather can be as simple and affordable as free drinks or meals. If you’re a big time Mr. Money-Bags like Brandon himself you can go all out on more lavish and expensive gifts like jewelry or plastic surgery. According to the app’s official statement reported by The Independent, “Women have all the power in the online dating world: they receive countless messages from suitors, while men struggle for even a single reply. But by ‘dangling’ the right ‘carrot’ in front of beautiful girls, suitors can convince anyone to say 'yes' to a first date.” Brandon says that "women love getting presents like dogs love treats," and that all that is needed for a woman to give an unlucky-in-love guy a break is the promise of a free dinner and a few flowers.

Obviously, this has sparked a lot of anger. Enraged men and women equate this app to prostitution, and make the very valid argument that bribery does not effectively condition a person to falling in love. A leading expert in motivation studies, professor Edward Deci, said in a statement to the New York Times (in an article about cash incentives for students), “It is easy to get people to do things by paying them if you’ve got enough money and they’ve got the necessary skills… but they will keep doing it only as long as you keep paying them. And even if they were doing it before, when you stop paying them the behavior drops to a lower level than when you started paying them. We’ve done thousands of experiments on this over forty years and the data is incredibly robust.”

Christina Sterbenz of Business Insider further notes that, “if you offer a woman a present in exchange for a first date, then you’re implying she can be bought, much like a hooker.” Which is not necessarily true—there’s nothing intrinsically whorish about accepting a present. The problem with the app is more the expectation that the bribees will actually agree to sleep with the bribers after receiving their gifts. Since there’s no guarantee that sex will occur, the app could just turn out to be just an easy way for a girl to get a few free dinners.

Brandon Wade also founded SeekingArrangement.com and WhatsYourPrice.com. Both these sites, to the objective observer, run under the same formula of "money equals love." But Brandon doesn’t quite see it this way. According to the app’s website’s About page, he started the website as a "never-been-kissed nerd” looking for a solution. To him, a “bribe” is simply an incentive, a "foot-in-the-door needed to get the initial date and hopefully build the chemistry needed to fall in love." Is this fucked up and a little pathetic? Certainly. Yet, 30,000 people use the app. It’s not like Carrot Dating is all that different from a site like OK Cupid; few people are going to these sources seriously expecting to find true love. And, for that matter, Brandon Wade has been married for the past two years, apparently quite happily.

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I don't know if I can fully define human nature, but I'm pretty sure it includes a prurient and/or practical interest in how one uses the bathroom under strange circumstances. Thus, the various videos you've seen over the years explaining how astronauts use the toilet on board the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station. Until a recent visit to Seattle's Museum of Flight, however, I'd never seen how cosmonauts do their business — an issue with increasingly broad reach, now that Americans and other international space voyagers are being ferried into the heavens aboard Soyuz.

The Soyuz toilet does not look much like the ones on board the Shuttle or the ISS. Those are recognizably toilets, for one thing. The Soyuz sanitary unit is more akin to peeing into a soda bottle in the back seat of the family station wagon — if that soda bottle were hooked up to a vacuum cleaner.

This video — kindly shared with us by The Museum of Flight — was filmed in 2009 by NASA astronaut Michael Barratt. It features the urination demonstration talents of spaceflight adventurer Charles Simonyi and Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka. Please note that this video only demonstrates how the "part Number 1" works — and even that really only seems to apply to gentlemen cosmonauts. As best I can tell, women apparently just pee into something akin to a compact diaper or sanitary pad. (Fun!) As for "part Number 2", here is how it was described in a 2007 NASA publication written by James Lee Broyan, Jr.:

For fecal collection, a porous bag is placed in the receptacle. Once defecation is complete, the bag is removed, placed sequentially in three bags, and then placed in a wet trash compartment. Based on personal conversations with АСУ trainers, urine collection is acceptable but fecal use is avoided if at all possible with the crew using diet restrictions and preventive measures prior to flight.

• Read the 2007 NASA publication comparing different space toilet systems. Apparently, part Number 2 has also been used by female cosmonauts to dispose of menstrual waste.
• Read a description on the RuSpace site, which gives a little more detail on part Number 2.
• Watch the video at YouTube

Thanks to Ted Huetter at The Museum of Flight!