Classic Sculptures Hilariously Dressed in Modern Day Outfits

French photographer Léo Caillard visualized this project which brings a little modern flair to some perfectly sculpted, centuries-old masterpieces.

-My Modern Met

Too much to bare: behind the scenes at a lap-dancing club

By around 10pm on a Wednesday evening, several women are undressing in the dank, cramped basement corridors outside the Windmill club’s three windowless changing rooms. The combination of the unceasing rain and roadworks in the streets above is causing chaos. One of the rooms has flooded overnight and bits of the ceiling have fallen down. The other two are full already, so women are stripping off their clothes wherever there is space. Beneath the prevailing smell of hairspray and scent, a peculiar sewagey odour seeps in from Soho’s flooded drains.

Women arrive in anoraks, wearing dirty trainers and fusty brown tights, eating greasy panini, holding their noses and complaining about the smell, and spend around an hour transforming themselves into beautiful, heavily made-up night peacocks, in floaty, gauzy, transparent dresses and leopardprint bras.

-The Long Good Read

Japanese researchers build speech-jamming gun that stops you mid-sentence

You're at a movie theatre and the kids behind you won't stop babbling. Not a problem. You reach into your bag, whip out your trusty speech-jamming gun, whirl around in your seat and blast them. No more nattering.

-io9

Winners of the National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest 2012

These eleven images were chosen from more than 12,000 entries submitted by 6,615 photographers from 152 countries. National Geographic was kind enough to allow me to share the winning photographs with you here, from four categories: Travel Portraits, Outdoor Scenes, Sense of Place, and Spontaneous Moments.

-The Atlantic

On fait des pérogies avec Laurier!

Navy SEAL who witnessed bin Laden's death anonymously publishing first-hand account of raid

A first-hand account of the Navy SEAL mission that killed Osama bin Laden is coming out September 11 - the 11th anniversary of the devastating terror attacks in New York and Washington, DC.

The book's publisher announced on today that Mark Owen's 'No Easy Day' will 'set the record straight' on the raid in Abottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011 that led to the terrorist leader's death.

-Mail Online

Bucket List: 225 Things to Do Before You Die

The essence of any good bucket list consists of overcoming fears, achieving goals, realizing dreams and even simple pleasures. Whether it’s an exotic adventure half-way around the world or something simpler, like spending more time with your family or friends, what matters is that you experience all the good and phenomenal things Earth offers.

Here you’ll find 225 things to do before you die. Sure, a few of them are what some might consider to be cliché, but we made it a priority to think mostly outside the box.

-Life'd

Photography : Scenes from the top of the city

It’s one of the unspoken rules of summer in New York: if you can’t get out of the city, go up. In search of open space, better views and relief from the heat and noise, New Yorkers take to the rooftops.

-NY Times

Middle School Sex Ed Questions

Here are some questions submitted by middle school students in a sex ed class. Keep in mind they are just figuring things out so it’ pretty funny to see how much they know.

-Bro My God

The original painted ladies: Vintage photographs reveal incredible head-to-toe tattoos on women in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties

From bike gangs, to star-crossed lovers and rebellious teenagers, tattoos are often thought of as modern day markings, usually of the wayward and tough.

However tattoos are far from a new cultural phenomenon. Decades before Jimmy Buffet sang 'It's just a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling', women all over the world were proudly adorning their entire bodies in defining ink.

Whether it was 1926 in the Bronx, the Thirties in England or 1946 in Japan, these incredible vintage photographs reveal how tattooed ladies paved the way in tattoo design for the rest of the world.

-Mail Online

NASA 360 degree photography of Curiosity landing

Army of the future: Soldiers will be able to run at Olympic speed and won't need food or sleep with gene technology

Tomorrow's soldiers could be able to run at Olympic speeds and will be able to go for days without food or sleep, if new research into gene manipulation is successful.

According to the U.S. Army's plans for the future, their soldiers will be able to carry huge weights, live off their fat stores for extended periods and even regrow limbs blown apart by bombs.

The plans were revealed by novelist Simon Conway, who was granted behind-the-scenes access to the Pentagon's high-tech Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency.

-Mail Online

18 Rules of Living by the Dalai Lama

5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

-The Unbounded Spirit

Fred Herzog : Gallery

Side Road Curaçao

Ready Player One: the best science fiction novel I've read in a decade

Cline’s first novel starts out in the year 2044. The Great Recession (the same one we are in right now) is in its third decade. Unemployment is higher than ever (there's a two-year wait for a job at fast food chain restaurants), liquid fuel is extremely scarce, the climate is in awful shape, and famine, disease, and poverty are rampant across the planet.

The story is told by Wade Watts, an 18-year-old orphan who lives with 16 other people in trailer near the top of a tall stack of trailers in a crowded, crime-ridden trailer park on the outskirts of Oklahoma City (the suburbs are deserted, because hardly anyone can afford to buy fuel to travel by car). He doesn’t remember his father, who was shot by cops who caught him looting a grocery store for food after a power outage. And his mother overdosed on adulterated drugs when he was a kid. Wade now lives with his hateful young aunt and her creepy, fresh-out-of-prison boyfriend. They allow Wade to live in the trailer only because he's worth a weekly ration of food vouchers.

-boingboing

Study: Guys Spend Stupidly When There Are Fewer Women to Date

Most men tend to do dumb things around women just to get their attention — wearing muscle shirts, flexing in muscle shirts, and lying about their job and marital status while wearing and flexing in muscle shirts, for instance. Add this to the list: spending money on stupid things and taking on credit card debt because they sense there’s a scarcity of ladies in the geographic area.

-Readability/Time

WIKILEAKS: Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network

Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology—and have installed it across the U.S. under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous.


-Readability/Business Insider

Spiderwoman... for real! Horrifying pics show spider living in woman’s ear before doctors dislodged it

Doctors in China performed a spider-ectomy on a woman who had an arachnid living inside her ear for several days.

Photos taken at Changsha Central Hospital show the spider in horrifying close-up before it was removed.

-NYdailynews

Sumo wrestlers, by Reed Young – in pictures

Sumo wrestlers are among the highest earning sportsmen in Japan, often enjoying celebrity status with salaries to match. But once they leave the sport, many struggle to adapt to life outside the stable, where every aspect of their daily routine is organised for them.

-The Guardian

A watch that displays time on both Earth and Mars

Looking for a gift for the NASA Mars rover flight controller in your life who has everything? Executive Jewelers makes watches that display Martian time, and watches with dual displays so you know what time it is on Mars *and* Earth, at a glance.

-boingboing

What time is it right now on Mars? There's a NASA app for that.

And you can download it right here, for Mac, Windows, Linux, OS/2, and other open operating systems. About:Mars24 is a Java application which displays a

Mars sunclock, a graphical representation of the planet Mars showing its current sun- and nightsides, along with a numerical readout of the time in 24-hour format. Other displays include a plot showing the relative orbital positions of Mars and Earth and a diagram showing the solar angle and path for a given location on Mars.

Created at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

-boing boing

6 Things That Annoy You Every Day (Explained by Science)

A theoretical physicist named Geoffrey West was studying population growth of various cities when he noticed something weird. Basically, every time a city doubled in population, there was an inevitable 15 percent increase in ... well, everything. The rate of crime, pollution, disease, good stuff like productivity and creativity, and bafflingly specific stuff like the speed at which people walk along sidewalks. Double the citizens, everything went up by almost exactly 15 percent no matter where he looked.

It's weird to think of human behavior as predictable. It's not like criminals read the latest census information, do some quick calculations and put on their murder gloves to go out and fill their quota. But it turns out that a lot of the things that annoy us about daily existence are governed by scientific laws and systems we're not even aware of.

-Cracked