Le retour de OuiSurf

La fin du contrat télévisuel de OuiSurf n'a pas empêché les aventuriers Benjamin Rochette, Julien Lauzon et René Caza de continuer de pourchasser les plus belles vagues du monde et de faire partager leur amour pour le sport, images léchées et vibrantes à l'appui.

Cette semaine, ils ont effectué un retour en force avec le lancement de Bagus Sekali, leur nouvelle websérie tournée en Indonésie.

-La Presse

50 Amazing Black and White Photographs That Capture Everyday Life in Soviet Lithuania During the 1960s and 1970s

Those who are under thirty today in the countries of the former Soviet Union can barely remember what it felt like to live there. They never knew it. Many of those over thirty have also chosen to forget. They might remember familiar details, but their more recent experience has obliterated the feelings that went with them. Antanas Sutkus’s photographs, taken during the 1960s and 1970s to document the changing life and people of Lithuania, bring it all flooding back.

-Vintage Everyday

6 REASONS WHY WALKING IS ONE OF THE BEST WORKOUTS

Enjoy better health and experience the benefits of walking for fun and fitness. Here are four reasons you should consider walking, and seven helpful tips.

-Collective Evolution

The idea of monogamy as a relationship ideal is based on flawed science

Is monogamy actually better than non-monogamy?
It’s still very much an open question—and one with no clear answers, in part because scientists can’t break free of a certain worldview gripping their field. Monogamy is so much a part of the emotional makeup of Western culture that even people who study relationships fail to notice their biases towards it, according to research due to be published this week. And that means the very way we study intimacy has some fundamental flaws.

-Quartz

An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timeless reflection on presence over productivity — a timely antidote to the central anxiety of our productivity-obsessed age. Indeed, my own New Year’s resolution has been to stop measuring my days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. But what, exactly, makes that possible?

If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end.

-Brain Pickings

Why We Need to Challenge the Culture of Monogamy

Relationship norms are so pervasive, they've led to flawed science.

As someone who identifies as polysexual, I've often experienced negativity from those who don't think outside of how their relationships function. At times, this judgment has come from those close to me. "You're just slutty," or "Your man is OK with that, really?" are things I've heard over and over again—not to mention the times people have tried to rat me out to my primary partner for what they think is "cheating."

Because of these kinds of reactions to who I am, I've always felt that our society isn't built for people like me. And, according to newly released research, it turns out that the norm of monogamy is so pervasive it extends past the realm of our social interactions, and into the field of science.

-Vice

The Code in a Dead Man’s Pocket That’s Stumped the FBI for Over 15 Years

From the moment police discovered Ricky McCormick’s body facedown in a cornfield outside of St. Louis, on a ribbon of land running between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, they suspected foul play. McCormick had only been missing for three days, but his body was in an advanced state of decomposition, even considering the warm weather that June of 1999. Unable to identify him visually, police had to ID McCormick using his fingerprints—which had fallen off, along with the rest of the skin on his hands above the first knuckle.

The decay was so advanced, police theorized that the killer intentionally kept McCormick’s body in a high-temperature environment to promote decomposition in an attempt to cover up the cause of death. If that was the plan, it worked: After a difficult autopsy, the St. Charles County Medical Examiner's Office ultimately ruled McCormick’s cause of death "undetermined.”

The police found something else strange that day. In his pants pocket, McCormick was carrying two pieces of paper, each covered in several scrawled paragraphs. Some of the paragraphs were outlined in bubbles, almost like speech balloons, while others seemed laid out in the style of a formal letter, with an introduction line, a body of text, and a signature, or possibly even an address with a ZIP code at the end. The police couldn’t make heads or tails of it.

-mental_floss

Free Crab Night at Danos, 1938

During the Great Depression, the photographic unit of the Farm Security Administration assigned photographers to crisscross the country and record how people lived and worked throughout the nation.
In September 1938, while traveling through Louisiana documenting sugar plantations, rice farmers, and oyster fishermen, photographer Russell Lee stopped off at Danos’ Nightclub, a roadhouse off Highway 1 in the tiny community of Raceland. As it happened, he showed up on a Friday night, just in time for Danos’ free weekly crab boil. Grabbing his flash, he snapped photos as locals from around Bayou Lafourche smashed open piles of crustaceans, put away cases of Jax Beer, and blew off some late-summer steam.

-Mashable

The Renaissance origin of porn: Inside “I Modi,” the 16th-century sex manual masterpiece

“I know it when I see,” said Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, referring to pornography in the landmark 1964 case of Jacobellis v. Ohio. The film in question, “The Lovers” by Louis Malle (1958), did not qualify as hardcore porn in the judge’s eyes, and the obscenity conviction of an Ohio theater manager, indicted for screening the art film, was reversed. But this case, with its famous statement, raises a good question: Where is the line drawn between erotic art and pornography?

-Salon

10 Kinky Tendencies Of The Ancient Romans And Greeks

The ancient Romans and Greeks had a highly liberated attitude toward sex—one that is surprising, even by today’s standards. They had gods devoted to it, festivals to partake in it, and local economies that surrounded it. Sex was not something to be ashamed of or hidden from public view. Rather, it was something to rejoice in.

-Listverse

Inside the Hunt for Russia’s Most Notorious Hacker

AMERICA’S WAR WITH Russia’s greatest cybercriminal began in the spring of 2009, when special agent James Craig, a rookie in the FBI’s Omaha, Nebraska, field office, began looking into a strange pair of electronic thefts. A square-jawed former marine, Craig had been an agent for just six months, but his superiors tapped him for the case anyway, because of his background: For years, he’d been an IT guy for the FBI. One of his nicknames in college was “the silent geek.”

-Wired

The Basement Shops of Sofia

Street vendors are a common sight in cities across the world. The inability to pay high rent, or the unavailability of cheap commercial space, have pushed these small merchants on to streets, and in some cases, on to basements, as in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.

Known as klek shops, these basement shops are unique to the city of Sofia. The shops are set in the basement of the buildings containing a small window that opens in the sidewalk, usually below the knee level. This is why they are known as “klek shops”—klek means knee. Products are displayed outside on the sidewalk, but to order something, customers need to squat and peer into the window and into the dimly lit face of the trader inside the basement.

-Amusing Planet