7 Most Psychotic Girlfriends

Dominique Fischer: the tattooist who carved her name with a Stanley knife on her lover while he was sleeping : A man's one night stand carved her name on his body with a Stanley knife while he was asleep. Wayne Robinson's injuries at the hands of Dominique Fisher included her name carved into his upper arm. After meeting in the Syndicate nightclub in Blackpool the pair had a “drink-and-drug fuelled four-day fling.” But when he woke in the morning he found she had carved "Dominique" on his right shoulder. He also had multiple slashes on his left shoulder and arm and a star design on his back. She claimed that he agreed to the “tattoos” but Mr. Robinson said he had not consented. Wayne was so drunk he had not felt a thing. He went to the hospital for painkillers but he is stuck with the marks because he cannot afford laser treatment to remove them. 

-ODDE

10 Most Cruel Wives

The Australian woman who attacked her husbands, killed her last one and served him as dinner for his kids : The first Australian woman to be sentenced to a natural life term without parole, Katherine Knight, had a history of violence in relationships. She mashed the dentures of one of her ex-husbands and slashed the throat of another husband's eight-week-old puppy before his eyes. A heated relationship with John Charles Thomas Price became public knowledge with an Apprehended Violence Order that Price had filed against Knight. She stabbed Mr Price 37 times with a butcher's knife before skinning him and hanging his hide from a meat hook in their lounge room back in 2000. She then decapitated him and put his head in a pot on the stove, baked flesh from his buttocks and cooked vegetables and gravy as side dishes to serve to Mr Price's children. Police found the macabre dinner before the adult children arrived home.

-ODDE

Los Angeles Airport In The 1980s: Wonderful Photos Of Humanity In Limbo

“I suppose there has been nothing like the airports… nothing quite as lonely, as sombre-silent… The young people look at the planes, the older ones look at the passengers with a watchful incredulity” – F. Scott Fitzgerald


-Flashbak

Inscription on Newly Found 2,400-Year-Old Mosaic: 'Be Cheerful, Enjoy Your Life'

Look. It's been a long week. We should probably just open a bottle of rosé. Or tell ourselves some platitudes. Life does go on. 
 
Take this advice, for example, uncovered recently in Turkey on a mosaic that is believed to have been in the dining room of a home in the 3rd century, B.C.E.: "Be cheerful, enjoy your life." 
 
Another Turkish news outlet reports that the phrase is in fact "Be cheerful, live your life," confusingly citing the same archaeologist. Whatever the iteration, we can probably all agree that that is good, if somewhat banal, advice.

Below the inscription is a bottle of wine, some bread, and a reclining skeleton. In the skeleton's hand? A jorum, or cup, most likely full of said wine. Which, after a long week, sounds about right.

-Atlas Obscura

Where in the world is the best place to die?

One of the most pervasive ideas about death in America is that we don't do it well, dying in hospital beds after enduring unnecessary medical procedures instead of at home. It's our uncomfortable relationship with death, the thinking goes, that's pushing the relentless rise of our health-care spending to the highest in the world.

-The Washington Post

The big sleep

Scientists Pat and Peter Shaw died in a suicide pact in October. Here, their daughters reflect on their parents’ plan - and their remarkable lives.

-The Age

 

7 Incredible Natural Phenomena you've never seen

Venezuela's Everlasting Storm : The mysterious "Relámpago del Catatumbo" (Catatumbo lightning) is a unique natural phenomenon in the world. Located on the mouth of the Catatumbo river at Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela), the phenomenon is a cloud-to-cloud lightning that forms a voltage arc more than five kilometre high during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours a night, and as many as 280 times an hour. This almost permanent storm occurs over the marshlands where the Catatumbo River feeds into Lake Maracaibo and it is considered the greatest single generator of ozone in the planet, judging from the intensity of the cloud-to-cloud discharge and great frequency. 

-ODDE

Ces hommes qui transportent les marchandises sur la mer

Ils sont les fourmis du commerce international. Des milliers de matelots laissent leur famille derrière durant des mois pour transporter des marchandises d’un bout à l’autre du monde. Une vie hors de l’ordinaire, qui fascine notre collègue Thomas Le Jouan. Il est monté à bord d’un cargo pour un périple de 10 jours, de la France, son pays natal, jusqu’aux États-Unis. Récit.

-Radio Canada

Meat-Eating Among the Earliest Humans

Evidence of meat-eating among our distant human ancestors is hard to find and even harder to interpret, but researchers are beginning to piece together a coherent picture.

-American Scientist

Animals Rule Chernobyl 30 Years After Nuclear Disaster

Three decades later, it’s not certain how radiation is affecting wildlife—but it’s clear that animals abound.

-National Geographic

Bret Easton Ellis, «l’excès, c’est l’art»

25 ans après «American Psycho», il nous parle des vertus de la démesure et de la désuétude du roman. 

Que fait Bret Easton Ellis ces derniers temps ? Bret Easton Ellis, 52 ans, réalise des publicités. Prenez par exemple celle-ci, baptisée Figaro, court-métrage tourné pour le compte de l’Opéra de Paris. Incapable de pousser une seule note, un chanteur studieusement mal rasé pique une course hors de sa salle de répétition pour s’enfoncer dans une nuit de bacchanales au cours de laquelle il arrosera sa défaillance vocale d’alcool fort, baisera dans les toilettes d’un bar avec une sulfureuse vamp rencontrée quelques secondes auparavant, se chamaillera avec un ami, tentera de voler une voiture, avant de revenir à son point de départ, la camisole délabrée et la gueule abîmée, mais la voix, elle, complètement restaurée. Totale et magique rédemption par l’ivresse et le dérèglement.

-Le Devoir

Inside a sex doll factory

Photographer Robert Benson visited the uncanny valley to capture the making of a RealDoll, the $6500 hyperrealistic sex doll first made famous by Howard Stern. His photo series is surreal, provocative, and beautifully odd.

-boingboing

Des filles fabriquées? - Il y a les «femmes en série». Et celles qui choisissent de rentrer dans le moule pour mieux le faire craquer de l’intérieur.

«On ne naît pas femme, on le devient», disait Simone de Beauvoir. Des pin-up aux Femen, des mini-Miss aux Pussy Riot, des duchesses aux meneuses de claques, Le Devoir consacre un dossier à toutes ces «filles en série», sages ou subversives, qui font l’actualité au Québec et ailleurs. Que cachent ces femmes à la chaîne et que révèlent-elles sur notre propre monde ?

-Le Devoir

The Voyeur’s Motel

Gerald Foos bought a motel in order to watch his guests having sex. He saw a lot more than that.


I know a married man and father of two who bought a twenty-one-room motel near Denver many years ago in order to become its resident voyeur. With the assistance of his wife, he cut rectangular holes measuring six by fourteen inches in the ceilings of more than a dozen rooms. Then he covered the openings with louvred aluminum screens that looked like ventilation grilles but were actually observation vents that allowed him, while he knelt in the attic, to see his guests in the rooms below. He watched them for decades, while keeping an exhaustive written record of what he saw and heard. Never once, during all those years, was he caught.

-The New Yorker

New Evidence That Grandmothers Were Crucial for Human Evolution

For years, anthropologists and evolutionary biologists have struggled to explain the existence of menopause, a life stage that humans do not share with our primate relatives. Why would it be beneficial for females to stop being able to have children with decades still left to live? According to a study published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the answer is grandmothers. “Grandmothering was the initial step toward making us who we are,” says senior author Kristen Hawkes, an anthropologist at the University of Utah. In 1997 Hawkes proposed the “grandmother hypothesis,” a theory that explains menopause by citing the under-appreciated evolutionary value of grandmothering. Hawkes says that grandmothering helped us to develop “a whole array of social capacities that are then the foundation for the evolution of other distinctly human traits, including pair bonding, bigger brains, learning new skills and our tendency for cooperation.”


-Smithsonian

Last Letters - An emotional investigation about emails exchanged before death

Emails have been part of our lives long enough to be considered written chapters of our lives. Parents and children exchange emails. Friends, virtual acquaintances, distant relatives, co-workers — they all use email, all over the world. What do our loved ones say to us before they die? What was the last or most significant email received that lives on in the inboxes of those who are still here? What virtual memories do we keep of them?

-Medium

Coming to Terms With Sexsomnia

Stephen Klinck is a New York City-based writer. In September 2014, he wrote a feature for Motherboard about living with sexsomnia, an obscure, albeit real diagnosis for sexualized sleep behavior. We thought we’d check in with Stephen to see how he’s doing.
I’d never heard of it before. I never even knew it was a thing, let alone an official medical diagnosis. I only knew that occasionally I got frisky with my wife while I was dead asleep. It’s definitely not normal. But nothing about my sleep ever was. 

-Motherboard

16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School

I am 28 now. I don’t think about the past or regret things much these days. But sometimes I wish that I had known some of things I have learned over the last few years a bit earlier. That perhaps there had been a self-improvement class in school. And in some ways there probably was.

-Positivity Blog

24 Invaluable Skills To Learn For Free Online This Year

Here’s an easy resolution: This stuff is all free as long as you have access to a computer, and the skills you learn will be invaluable in your career, and/or life in general.

-BuzzFeed

Nursing Home Postcards: Waiting For God In Mid-Century America

What you are about to see are not film sets Stanley Kubrick thought too isolated for The Shining, or David Lynch considered over-egging the eerie for Twin Peaks. These are postcards from North American nursing home in the 1950s and 1960s.

-Flashbak

Beverly Hills of the Dead: Luxury Tombs complete with Kitchens & Air Conditioning

A friend of mine just returned from travelling in the Philippines and told me I should look into a cemetery located in the capital of Manila where the dead have better houses than the living. He was right. Most of these “homes” have their own fully-functioning kitchens, bathrooms and even bedrooms where relatives can sleep alongside their buried relatives. In some cases, they live amongst the dead full-time. The tombs are bigger than most houses and line real two-way streets within the cemetery grounds. It’s dubbed “the Beverley Hills of the Dead”.

-Messy Nessy Chic

Take that, monogamy! We’re actually hard-wired for polygamy, which helps explain why so many cheat

Monogamy is mandated throughout the Western world, infidelity is universal. A leading biologist explains why : Infants have their infancy, and adults? Adultery. Even though monogamy is mandated throughout the Western world, infidelity is universal. Revelations of marital infidelity occur regularly, often among the most prominent individuals—most of them men—who have the most to lose: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Jesse Jackson, Mark Sanford, Elliot Spitzer, Tiger Woods. The list is enormous and is “updated” almost daily. In this chapter, I will examine the somewhat divergent motivations of men and women when it comes to infidelity—pointing out that in both cases, the underlying causes derive from internal whisperings of fitness maximization, underpinned by the fundamental biology expressed in our polygamous heritage.

-Salon

 

The sinister reason why people fall in love

Romance may have existed in some form long before the origin of humanity, and some believe it was born out of death and violence.

-BBC

A Woman's Fight to Prove Porn Can Be Feminist

Erika Lust, the 39-year-old director of feminist erotica, says she wants to bring women’s perspectives to adult film. “I’m interested in showing female sexuality that hasn’t been shown enough onscreen.”

-Newsweek