An absolutely amazing photo essay of the Paris Metro including all the stations you probably know about, many you don't, and some that have not been accessed by the outside world for more than 50 years.
-Sleepycity
30 déc. 2010
Breathtaking photo essay of the Paris Metro
An absolutely amazing photo essay of the Paris Metro including all the stations you probably know about, many you don't, and some that have not been accessed by the outside world for more than 50 years.
-Sleepycity
The tyranny of choice
The average American supermarket now carries 48,750 items, according to the Food Marketing Institute, more than five times the number in 1975. Britain’s Tesco stocks 91 different shampoos, 93 varieties of toothpaste and 115 of household cleaner. Carrefour’s hypermarket in the Paris suburb of Montesson, a hangar-like place filled with everything from mountain bikes to foie gras, is so vast that staff circulate on rollerblades.
-The Economist
24 déc. 2010
Life Has No Meaning. So What?
According to a survey conducted by Austrian research psychologist Tatjana Schnell, an unexpectedly large proportion of Westerners feel that their lives have little meaning, and they don’t really care, reports Miller-McCune. Sampling more than 600 Germans, Schnell’s research found that “35 percent [of the sample] were ‘existentially indifferent,’ those who ‘neither experience their lives as meaningful nor suffer from this lack of meaning,’” and only 10 percent of that group were bothered by their own existential apathy.
-Utne
23 déc. 2010
Le Noël des ambulanciers
Un bébé mort sur un lit, étouffé par les manteaux de la parenté qui le bordaient de chaque côté; un grand-père qui a fait un infarctus et est tombé sur le sapin, en pleine distribution de cadeau.
Le Québec compte environ 4000 techniciens ambulanciers. Le 25 décembre, la moitié d'entre eux vont sillonner les routes en ambulance pour porter assistance aux gens en détresse. Certains verront des blessés et des morts tragiques. D'autres vivront de petits bonheurs ou recréeront la magie de Noël avec leurs collègues, entre deux appels. Regard sur une manière bien particulière de passer Noël.
-Cyberpresse
21 déc. 2010
Top 40 des photos de père noël qui font peur aux enfants
Noël, c’est le sapin bling bling un brin trop décoré, des cadeaux qui font (presque) souvent plaisir, la dinde farcie aux marrons aussi légère que la buche du dessert, et les chocolats dégueux de mamie qu’elle ressort chaque année. Mais Noël c’est aussi papa ou papy déguisé en Père Noël, et les photos qui vont avec : souvent kitchs, et parfois ratées. Mais alors bien ratées comme il faut.
-Topito
16 déc. 2010
Wikirebels, un documentaire sur WikiLeaks
Attention, gros dossier ! Un film-documentaire réalisé par la chaîne suédoise SVT (heureusement, c'est en version anglaise) sur les ficelles de WikiLeaks a été publié, après avoir été partagé en 4 parties, sur le site de partage de vidéos YouTube.
Niveau format, c'est du long-cours : une heure pleine d'informations sur l'organisation, ses mystères, ses leaders, ses évolutions et ses prises de risque, de quoi en apprendre bien plus que sur la plupart des médias actuels, complètement axés sur la polémique de ces derniers jours concernant les soupçons de viol de la part de Julian Assange, co-fondateur de WikiLeaks et figure emblématique de la structure.
-Fluctuat
15 of the Craziest Cults
The line between a “cult” and a “sect” or a “religion” can be thin, but a couple of factors generally define modern use of the word “cult:” Cults revolve around the teachings of one living (or recently living) person, and this person claims to be “chosen” for an important mission on Earth.
-Popcrunch
10 déc. 2010
Research Study Finds The Sight of Meat Calms Men Down
Forget massages, soothing music or aromatherapy. If you want to calm down a stressed-out man, just show him a few photos of meat.
-LA Weekly
6 déc. 2010
The real-life Swedish murder that inspired Stieg Larsson
Long before the books of Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell shone a light on Sweden’s dark underbelly, there was the murder of Catrine da Costa. It's a case that continues to shock, baffle and divide the nation.
-TheTelegraph
5 déc. 2010
The Case of the Vanishing Blonde
After a woman living in a hotel in Florida was raped, viciously beaten, and left for dead near the Everglades in 2005, the police investigation quickly went cold. But when the victim sued the Airport Regency, the hotel’s private detective, Ken Brennan, became obsessed with the case: how had the 21-year-old blonde disappeared from her room, unseen by security cameras? The author follows Brennan’s trail as the P.I. worked a chilling hunch that would lead him to other states, other crimes, and a man nobody else suspected.
-Vanity Fair
1 déc. 2010
Why Dreams Mean Less Than We Think
Human beings are irrational about dreams the same way they are irrational about a lot of things. We make dumb choices all the time on the basis of silly information.
-Time
-Time
