«Médium» saignant (et viril)

Je vais souvent marcher à l’heure où mes voisins se réunissent autour du gril. J’ai beau être végétarienne, humer ces chairs caramélisées sur le barbecue éveille chez moi un réflexe pavlovien. Je rentre affamée. Mais chaque été, je me demande pourquoi ces spécimens de l’autre espèce se retrouvent avec un tablier et des instruments de calibre extrême alors qu’ils n’approchent pas d’un comptoir de cuisine le reste de l’année. Qu’est-ce que le barbecue éveille dans leurs gonades d’aussi puissant qu’ils se métamorphosent en grillardins estivaux prêts aux cascades les plus périlleuses pour ressembler au chef Louis-François Marcotte.

La thèse primitive remonte au chasseur-cueilleur et au besoin atavique de retrouver l’étincelle initiale, qui vient tout de suite après avoir abattu un steak chez Provigo. Le feu. À l’origine de notre espèce, selon certains anthropologues, la capacité de maîtriser la flamme et de cuire des aliments a permis à l’Homo erectus d’avoir un cerveau plus volumineux en facilitant la mastication et en augmentant l’énergie disponible. Dans sa série Cooked (sur Netflix), le journaliste américain Michael Pollan nous explique que les animaux ne peuvent pas cuire leur nourriture et que les dieux aiment les sacrifices. L’être humain se situerait entre les deux.

-Le Devoir

Old Master Paintings Animated

As someone who has (allegedly) taken LSD in the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and watched the flowers in various paintings blossom right before my eyes, I recognize the visual illusions created by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro in “Beauty.” Let’s leave it at that.

-Hyperallergic

What are the 'tingles' we feel when listening to music?

 
Music is a universal language - its appeal runs across the world in many cultures. In its various forms, music unites human beings in a uniquely pleasurable experience - like eating, sleeping, or sex - yet, of itself, it has no practical value. Moreover, music is able to trigger physiological changes in the human body - most people report occasionally experiencing the 'tingles' when listening to music. So what is going on in our bodies and brains when we experience this (usually) pleasurable phenomenon?

-BBC

Bad Brains 82 NYC. Banned in D.C.

Mark Jenkin street installations

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Premières images de la suite de Trainspotting

Les premières images de la très attendue suite de Trainspotting (1996), qui raconte les péripéties d'un groupe de jeunes héroïnomanes écossais, ont été diffusées lundi sur Twitter. T2, son nom de code pour l'instant, réunit les mêmes acteurs principaux et le même réalisateur.

-La Presse

Why exhaustion is not unique to our overstimulated age

Is ours the most exhausting age ever? Many sociologists, psychologists and cultural critics argue that the rapid spread of exhaustion syndromes such as depression, stress and burnout are consequences of modernity and its challenges. The argument goes that human energy levels have basically remained static throughout history, while the cognitive, emotional and temporal demands on the modern subject have increased so sharply that a chronic deficit of inner resources ensues. The most frequently named ‘exhaustion generators’ are the social changes resulting from acceleration, new technologies and the transformation of manufacturing into service and finance economies. Email and mobile phones, for example, make workers perpetually reachable, eroding the boundary between work and leisure, therefore making it difficult for employees to ever switch off from their jobs. Add to this the intensified competition from globalised capitalism and the result is that, today, the worker rarely leaves work. No wonder everyone is exhausted.

-aeon

Same guy, same dog. Grover Krantz donated his body to science. His skeleton was articulated along with the skeleton of one of his beloved dogs and displayed in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

Why Does Time Seem to Speed Up with Age?

“Where did the time go?” middle-aged and older adults often remark. Many of us feel that time passes more quickly as we age, a perception that can lead to regrets. According to psychologist and BBC columnist Claudia Hammond, “the sensation that time speeds up as you get older is one of the biggest mysteries of the experience of time.” Fortunately, our attempts to unravel this mystery have yielded some intriguing findings.


-Scientific American

Gaspar Noé’s Love: ‘We’re not doing anything perverse’

The controversial erotic film lays relationships bare, literally, using unknown actors and unsimulated sex. Its young stars think it’s time we all stopped being so squeamish.


-The Guardian

Original Polish Posters

-Polish Poster

25 Things About Life I Wish I Had Known 10 Years Ago

“I know nothing” to me, means that you might be an educated person, but still, you know nothing. You can learn from everything and everyone.

One thing that I like better than learning from my mistakes is to learn from other people’s mistakes. Over the years, I’ve been blessed to have great mentors, teachers, family, friends, that taught me about life.

What you will find below is a list of the most important things I learned from other people and books. Some of the lessons took me a long time to learn—but if I had to learn these things all by myself, it would take me a lot longer.

We might learn things quickly, but we often forget things at the same rate—and sometimes we need to remind ourselves of the things we’ve learned. Here are 25 of those reminders that others taught me.

-Medium

Many parents will say kids made them happier. They’re probably lying

Ask the vast majority of American parents, and they will tell you that having kids has made them happier.

The problem with this claim, as common as it is, is that research suggests it just isn’t true. People who have kids in the United States and in many countries around the world report being less happy than people who don’t have kids. Being a parent gives people a sense of purpose and meaning, as well as lifelong social connections. But for some reason, it doesn’t appear to bring American parents more happiness.

-Washington Post

Remnants: Paintings by Kevin Peterson

Paintings of children interacting with animals by Houston-based artist Kevin Peterson. An accomplished hyperrealist painter, Peterson portrays the children and wildlife in urban graffiti marked spaces; a contradiction that heightens the subjects’ dislocation yet retaining a sense of innocence despite their worn surroundings. The works explore isolation and uncertainty in a subtle manner but also suggests survival and the triumph of individual strength.


-Faith is Torment

1965: Vacationing in Maine

With its mild summers, spectacular coastline and hundreds of pleasant lakes, Maine has been a destination for east coast urbanites fleeing stifling cities since the mid-1800s.

-Mashable

The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit

For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legend—or maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the hermit came out of the forest.


-GQ

The Casual Sex Project - Real Hookup Stories by Real People

The Casual Sex Project is a collaborative effort to share our true stories of casual sex experiences or hookups of all kinds: one-night stands, friends-with-benefits, short flings, fuck buddies, booty calls, sex with an ex…as long as it’s sex (however you want to define sex) with someone you are not in a serious dating romantic relationship with, we want to hear it! The good, the bad, and the ugly.

-The Casual Sex Project

Voyage au cœur de l’avocat

Fruit singulier et pourtant si familier, l’avocat marque rarement les esprits tant sa saveur semble fade et sa texture glissante. Acteur de second rôle dans les mets occidentaux, il est omniprésent dans les cuisines d’Amérique centrale, où il est souvent qualifié de « beurre du pauvre ». Si la plupart des pays l’associent aux plats salés, les Brésiliens, les Malgaches ou les Philippins le préfèrent en dessert, saupoudré de sucre, sous forme de glace, de boisson crémeuse ou de gâteau coloré. Originaire du Mexique, qui le consomme depuis plus de huit mille ans et reste son plus gros producteur et consommateur, l’avocat se mange écrasé avec citron vert et épices diverses, pour l’indétrônable guacamole aux variantes infinies.

-Le Monde

The Mysterious Origins of a Food That's Always Been Funny: The Sausage

 
Forget love, forget war, forget decency and kindness or cruelty and apathy—it’s sausages that all of us, all over the world, have in common. Virtually every culture, tribe, nation, ethnic group has a sausage. The ubiquity of the food makes it hard to trace its first moments on Earth; sausages were a solution to a problem that every culture was likely to come up against. “Sausages were created originally for two reasons: One, to make use of every little piece of the meat, so nothing is wasted, and two, by using salt and smoking, it was a way to preserve it,” explains Gary Allen, author of Sausages: A Global History, pointing to the rise of coordinated hunting and the ability to pull down increasingly larger game as one of the conditions that led to the birth of sausages.

-Atlas Obscura

I Sculpt Miniature Food Out Of Clay

I love miniatures because it gives you a sense of being able to control a large part of the world in a small contained space. Food is especially dear to me since it's universally relatable and there are so many different colors and textures to try to replicate.

-Bored Panda