An Ancient City Is Discovered Underwater. What They Found Will Change History Forever

 
The city of Heracleion was engulfed underwater 1500 years ago. This grand city had been mentioned by the Greek writer Herodotus, the 5th-century BC historian. He had told a wonderful tale of Helen of Troy, who traveled to Heracleion, then a port of 'great wealth', with her Trojan lover, Paris. When French marine archaeologist Franck Goddio stumbled upon some relics, it led them to one of the greatest finds of the 21st century; a city underwater. The discovery took place when Goddio had been in search of Napoleon’s warships from the 1798 Battle of the Nile, when he had been defeated by Nelson in these very waters, but to his surprise, he stumbled upon this magnificent discovery.

-Sunny Skyz

Three Things Humanity Needs to Do to Survive the Apocalypse

Annalee Newitz has a succinct, bittersweet message for the human race: Mass extinction is coming, and we're probably going to survive it. Whether it's manmade (a nuclear holocaust, anthropogenic climate change), earth-spawned (mega-volcanoes, a pandemic) or of the cosmic variety (radiation bombardment or an asteroid impact), there's eventually going to be catastrophe big enough to snuff out the vast majority of life on Earth.

-Vice

Canada’s Wild West

Intermittently over the next five years, photographer Thomas Gardiner traveled by car through British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, staying with friends and family and photographing along the way. He went to familiar spots, like his father’s hometown and the rapids that he used to swim in as a child during the summer, but he also looked for novelty and had plenty of interactions with strangers. The result is an intensely personal tribute of the landscape that shaped him.

-Slate

12 Insane Things That Happened On My Night Out With Bill Murray

Legend has it that’s what Bill Murray says after he covers your eyes from behind and turns you around to reveal he’s Bill Murray. If you’re not familiar with the legend of Bill Murray, he’s also been known to show up at student loft parties, crash kickball games, and to be reachable only by an 800 number. No one knows which stories are true, but it doesn’t matter; the fact that we discuss them at all is what makes Bill Murray a legend.

-Thought Catalog

20 Wendy Houses for the Peter Pan in You

Before we get started, let’s just be clear on what exactly a Wendy House is. Made for Wendy Darling in J. M. Barrie’s play, Peter Pan, after she was accidentally shot in Neverland, Peter Pan and the Lost Boys built the small house around her where she had fallen. The idea was inspired by the wash-house behind the playwright’s childhood home. Today, it’s the affectionate name for as a playhouse, large enough for one or more children (at heart) …

-Messy Nessy Chic

I Went to a Sex Club with My Married Coworker

I could tell James was nervous when we met at the White Horse to pre-game. We were on our way to a sex club—the first time for both of us—and we knew it was going to be weird. It was Halloween, and James had brought along some cheap drugstore masks for us to wear. “For your protection,” he said, handing mine over. “You don't want these people to be able to see your face.” When he'd forwarded me our reservation the night before, I'd been alarmed by the house rules, which included things like, “Personal hygiene is of the utmost importance” and “No ALWAYS means no.” I wondered what kind of freaks would go to such a place, besides us.

-Nerve

Any given Sunday: inside the chaos and spectacle of the NFL on Fox

It's 90 minutes to game time in Foxboro, Massachusetts, and Troy Aikman's not speaking to anyone. Around him, a dozen or so crew members, assistants, and friends chatter as they finish last-minute preparations, making sure Gillette Stadium is ready for football. They're testing cables and video feeds, rechecking stats, and setting up the fabric "NFL on FOX" backdrop that will turn this bland, gray, carpeted room into the tiny booth millions will soon see on TV.

-The Verge

This Is the Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading

“There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil,” Bill Gates wrote this summer. That’s quite an endorsement—and it gave a jolt of fame to Smil, a professor emeritus of environment and geography at the University of Manitoba. In a world of specialized intellectuals, Smil is an ambitious and astonishing polymath who swings for fences. His nearly three dozen books have analyzed the world’s biggest challenges—the future of energy, food production, and manufacturing—with nuance and detail. They’re among the most data-heavy books you’ll find, with a remarkable way of framing basic facts. (Sample nugget: Humans will consume 17 percent of what the biosphere produces this year.)


-Wired

Ocean Drones Plumb New Depths

ATLANTIC CITY — Five miles offshore from the Golden Nugget casino, Michael F. Crowley, a marine scientist at Rutgers University, heaves three lifeboat-yellow drones off the back of his research vessel. The gliders, as he calls them, are winged and propellerless, like miniature Tomahawk missiles. Two are on loan from the Navy, and one, Rutgers’s own, is pockmarked from a past shark attack.

-NY Times

Kill Your Darlings: quand Harry Potter rencontre Dexter

En 1944 à l'Université Columbia, Allen Ginsberg rencontre Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs et Lucien Carr. Ce dernier tuera. Et provoquera ce qui pourrait être l'étincelle qui a allumé la Beat Generation.

-La Presse

Betty à la rencontre du seigneur de l’Arctique

Churchill, Manitoba – Dans notre groupe d’aventuriers du dimanche arpentant la toundra du Manitoba en quête d’un carnivore à pelage blanc, Betty Grubbs détonne. Petite femme de 108 livres à l’apparence frêle, Betty parle haut et fort partout où l’on se retrouve, autobus, restos, hôtels. Lorsque cette dame de 95 ans ouvre la bouche pour s’exclamer, poser une question ou raconter une anecdote, tout le monde écoute. Si elle est ici à Churchill, c’est parce qu’elle suit sa philosophie de vie : se faire plaisir, faire seulement ce qui lui tente, poursuivre ses rêves. « Des ours polaires, je voulais voir ça au moins une fois dans ma vie ! »

-Le Devoir

What Does the Inside of Your Fridge Say About You?

If we all are indeed what we eat, then surely our refrigerators are a kind of canvas of selfhood—a place where we reveal ourselves by the kind of food we keep. That was the idea, anyway, when Mark Menjivar started photographing these spaces for his series “You Are What You Eat” in 2007. Menjivar spent almost four years on the project, traveling to 20 communities throughout the United States and peeking in the refrigerators of 60 people in an effort to explore the intersection between eating habits and identity.

-Slate

Laura Urtnowski, maman de la bière rousse

Si les Québécois sont les seuls au monde à catégoriser les bières selon leur couleur, c'est en bonne partie en raison de l'apparition de la Boréale «rousse», il y a maintenant 25 ans. Discussion avec Laura Urtnowski, ancienne maître-brasseur et présidente de l'entreprise à l'origine de cette révolution... ou de ce simple coup de marketing?

-Urbania/La Presse

Bettie Page Gave Naughty A Good Name

In the last 60 years two Nashville gals have kicked up a ruckuss with their exuberant, naughty-but-nice posing – singer Miley Cyrus and pin-up queen Bettie Page. Neither could be described as the Girl Next Door: The former markets herself as an out-of-control neighbor’s kid; the latter reveled in the guise of an out-of-control neighbor. But when it comes to pop-cultural legs, the gams of Cyrus are nowhere near as long as those of Page, who attained cult status long after she vanished without a trace in 1957, at the height of her fame. On the most recent Forbes list of “Top Earning Dead Celebrities,” Page ranked eighth, tied with the brainier but less curvaceous Albert Einstein.

-Newsweek

Ballerinas on the street

Ballerina Project is an ongoing series of photographs created by New York City photographer: Dane Shitagi. Rather than shooting in a studio, he wanted to take his creativity and inspiration from the world outside – preferring the rawness and atmosphere that only a living city could bring.

-Quick Bulletin

The 20 Things You Need To Let Go To Be Happy

Everyone has one common goal in life: to achieve true happiness. The biggest factor holding us back from achieving our dreams is, simply and sadly, our own selves. We put limitations on ourselves everyday, whether intentionally or unintentionally. There are so many ways we can alleviate these restraints.

-Elite Daily

20 movie scenes that rock

As if to prove there’s nothing a little pop music can’t make better, here are 20 classic movie scenes that wouldn’t be the same without the soundtrack.

-SF Gate

The Real Walter White ( Breaking Bad )

When AMC's Breaking Bad premiered in 2008, one of Alabama's most successful meth cook was already knee deep in building one of the biggest meth empires the state would ever see. His name? Walter White. In this documentary, Walter tell us the secret behind his product, how he stacked up thousands of dollars per day, and why his partner is now serving two life sentences.

-Vice