Why We Cheat

 
I can tell you right away the most important sentence in the book, because I’ve lectured all over the world and this is the thing I say that turns heads most often: Very often we don’t go elsewhere because we are looking for another person. We go elsewhere because we are looking for another self. It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become.

-Slate

Sarah Slocum: the infamous face of Google Glass

There's no shortage of celebrities who have donned Google Glass, from Desmond Tutu to Wolfgang Puck. But perhaps no one has become as famous for wearing the gadget - or as infamous - as Sarah Slocum.

-SF Gate

30 Pilots And Flight Attendants Confess Their Best Kept Secrets

These questions were asked on Reddit. My mind has officially been blown. I travel a lot, so some of this is pretty scary if you ask me. Maybe I’ll start taking the train…


-Viral Quake

What the World Looks Like From the Cockpit

For most photographers, making a great shot requires a quick, coordinated burst of framing, focusing, and exposing. But for aerial photographer Alex MacLean, that synchronization also includes making sure his airplane is flying steady. “It's a lot easier than trying to take pictures out of a car because you're dealing in 3-D space. The plane will fly itself straight and level. That's even without autopilot,” he said. “I usually set myself up, pick up the camera for five or 10 seconds, and take the picture out an open window.”

-Slate

Read the Pentagon’s $59 Billion ‘Black Budget’

The U.S. military has billions of dollars’ worth of secret projects it doesn’t want you to know about. Too bad—here they are.


-The Daily Beast

22 Ravishingly Beautiful Places That are Hard To Believe Truly Exist

Nature has so much to offer that if we look at the beauty of it we will be left star-struck...possibly forever. Presenting here are places out of a fairy tale...unbelievable but true!


-Emlii

Inside Rikers Island

A former guard’s photos reveal a rare glimpse of “the box,” the notorious New York City jail’s solitary confinement cells.

-Medium

Serial French child imposter Frédéric Bourdin

On May 3, 2005, in France, a man called an emergency hot line for missing and exploited children. He frantically explained that he was a tourist passing through Orthez, near the western Pyrenees, and that at the train station he had encountered a fifteen-year-old boy who was alone, and terrified. Another hot line received a similar call, and the boy eventually arrived, by himself, at a local government child-welfare office. Slender and short, with pale skin and trembling hands, he wore a muffler around much of his face and had a baseball cap pulled over his eyes. He had no money and carried little more than a cell phone and an I.D., which said that his name was Francisco Hernandez Fernandez and that he was born on December 13, 1989, in Cáceres, Spain. Initially, he barely spoke, but after some prodding he revealed that his parents and younger brother had been killed in a car accident. The crash left him in a coma for several weeks and, upon recovering, he was sent to live with an uncle, who abused him. Finally, he fled to France, where his mother had grown up.

-The New Yorker

47 Ways to Fine Tune Your Brain

Your brain is a complex organ. It is the controller of your body, your thoughts, your state of mind and your ultimately your life. There are some who abuse it, some who under- use it, and some who overuse it to the point of meltdown.

-Dumb Little Man

The Invention of the AeroPress

Among coffee aficionados, the AeroPress is a revelation. A small, $30 plastic device that resembles a plunger makes what many consider to be the best cup of coffee in the world. Proponents of the device claim that drinks made with the AeroPress are more delicious than those made with thousand-dollar machines. Perhaps best of all, the AeroPress seems to magically clean itself during the extraction process.

-Priceonomics

9 Things You Should Know About Your Caffeine Habit

Even if you're not among the 63 percent of Americans who drink coffee every day, caffeine is hard to avoid. It's all over your corner store, from energy drinks to colas and bottles of iced tea to cans of Starbucks "Refreshers." For a while there, it was looking like even your gum was going to be caffeinated.


-Mother Jones

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Your Penis

Ask yourself a question: How well do you really know your own penis? Pretty well, I bet you'd say. But ask it a different way: What would a penis reviewer say about it? In a world of 3.5 billion penises, how does mine stack up?

-GQ

Guess Who’s Having More Sex Than You?

Who’s having more sex than you? Match.com crunched the numbers and the answers will surprise you. You’ll never guess who’s having more sex than you.

-Imgnooz
 

Dean's Blue Hole, World's Deepest Blue Hole

Dean's Blue Hole near Clarence Town on Long Island, Bahamas, is the world's deepest known “blue hole” - a term given to any deep, water filled, vertical caves or sinkholes with an entrance below the water surface. While most blue holes and sinkholes reach a maximum depth of 110 meters, Dean's Blue Hole plunges to more than 200 meters, which makes it quite exceptional. At the surface, Dean's Blue Hole is roughly circular, with a diameter ranging from 25 to 35 meters. After descending 20 meters, the hole widens considerably into a cavern with a diameter of 100 meters.


-Amusing Planet 

Diomede Islands: Two Islands Split by the US-Russian Border and the International Date Line

The Diomede Islands are a pair of rocky islands located in the middle of the Bering Strait between mainland Alaska and Siberia. Though the two islands are only 3.8 km apart and clearly in a single group, they are separated by the International Date line which also marks the international border between Russia and the United States. Big Diomede is owned by Russia and Little Diomede is owned by the USA. Additionally, Big Diomede is 23 hours ahead of Little Diomede owing to the International Date Line that passes between them, because of this they are sometimes called Tomorrow Island and Yesterday Isle, respectively.

-Amusing Planet

Partis Pour 18 Mois, Ils ne Sont Jamais Revenus ! Un Road Trip qui Dure Depuis 23 ans

Les voyageurs passionnés n’ont souvent qu’une seule idée en tête : vivre toute leur vie sur la route. Entre rêve et réalité existe un fossé, qui est franchissable pour certains ! Gunther Holtorf et sa femme Christine n’ont pas choisi ce chemin de vie, il s’est plutôt imposé à eux comme une évidence.

-Voyager Loin

What You Learn in Your 40s

 
IF all goes according to plan, I’ll turn 44 soon after this column appears. So far in my adult life, I’ve never managed to grasp a decade’s main point until long after it was over. It turns out that I wasn’t supposed to spend my 20s frantically looking for a husband; I should have been building my career and enjoying my last gasp of freedom. I then spent my 30s ruminating on grievances accumulated in my 20s.

-NY Times 

Bahamas: Billionaire claims he is getting younger

Bahamas resident Peter Nygard says he is receiving stem cell therapy and that a study from the University of Miami suggests he is getting younger, the Bahamas Tribune reports. "They are looking at me, and my markers have shown exactly that I have been actually reversing my ageing and getting younger," the 70-year-old says.


-BBC News