Bad Romance

What the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon says about the modern sexual condition.

-The Atlantic http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/bad-romance/309082/

The Gangster Princess of Beverly Hills

Heiress, actress, singer, model - Lisette Lee wanted everyone to think she had it all, but beneath the bling were secrets, lies and private jets filled with weed.

-Readability/Rolling Stone

The Iranians are almost there. This is how they did it

Enrichment is accelerating, the warhead is taking shape, a nuclear trigger is deep in development, and the Shahab-3 missile has Israel in range and can detonate in an airburst 600 meters above ground — just like the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

-Readability/The Times of Israel

26 Stupidest Looks From Burning Man

Dammit, Burning Man… Yes, the Burning Man 2012 “Fertility 2.0” arts and music festival is once again inflicting itself upon Nevada.

-BuzzFeed

The Vanishing

In the stunning and remote wilderness along northern British Columbia’s Highway 16, at least 18 women—by some estimates, many more—have gone missing over the past four decades. After years of investigation, authorities still don’t know if it’s the work of a serial killer or multiple offenders. BOB FRIEL drives into the darkness for answers.


-Readability/Outside Online

New 'green cremation' machine opens in Minnesota

A Scottish company has installed its second "Resomation" machine, in the US state of Minnesota.

The new facility in Stillwater, Minnesota, has already processed the remains of 20 individuals.

Resomation involves the dissolution of the deceased in an alkaline solution, and is billed in the US as "green cremation" or "flameless cremation".

-Readability/BBC

A Wild Bunch of drinkers: Century-old photos of Utah bars include rare shot of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with their gang

An incredible image has emerged featuring Butch Cassidy's notorious train-robbing gang The Wild Bunch, posing outside their favourite bar in the early 1900s.

Posing in a relaxed manner, the outlaws look right at home, the photo of the gang also includes Harry Longbaugh (better known as the Sundance Kid).

The image is one of a series of pictures depicting saloon life in the early 1900s in Utah, which has a reputation as one of the most conservative states in the U.S.

-Mail Online