More people than ever before are single – and that’s a good thing

The 21st century is the age of living single. Today, the number of single adults in the U.S. – and many other nations around the world – is unprecedented. And the numbers don’t just say people are staying single longer before settling down. More are staying single for life. A 2014 Pew Report estimates that by the time today’s young adults reach the age of 50, about one in four of them will have never married.

-The Conversation

Addicted to love? Craving comes in two forms, and both can hurt

You can’t eat, you can’t sleep and all you can think about is your next fix. You may be addicted to love.

Intense romance can often come with symptoms resembling addiction – euphoria, craving, dependence, withdrawal and relapse – and brain scans have shown that it can be linked to drug-addiction-like activity in the brain’s reward centres.

-New Scientist

The island with £100 million hidden

According to legend, pirate treasure reportedly worth £100 million is buried on an Indian Ocean island.
Although the region is thought to be littered with hidden treasure, this one is said to be the Holy Grail, the world’s biggest booty haul. The story, which reads like a Hollywood script, has been passed down through generations on the islands of the Seychelles and La Réunion.

-BBC

It’s the end of the world and we know it: Scientists in many disciplines see apocalypse, soon

While apocalyptic beliefs about the end of the world have, historically, been the subject of religious speculation, they are increasingly common among some of the leading scientists today. This is a worrisome fact, given that science is based not on faith and private revelation, but on observation and empirical evidence.

-Salon

Lili Boisvert contre les théories réductrices sur la sexualité hommes-femmes

Cumshot ! Glisser dans le titre de son livre un mot appartenant au lexique de la pornographie comporte un certain nombre de risques. Celui de choquer. Celui d’être mal comprise. Celui, aussi, d’atterrir dans la mauvaise boîte courriel. « Mon éditeur n’a pas eu de réponse de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada [où chaque livre publié au pays doit être déposé] pendant un bout parce que le courriel qui présentait l’essai était tombé dans les spams », rigole Lili Boisvert.

-Le Devoir

Studio 54: 10 Wild Stories From Club's Debauched Heyday

For 33 months, Studio 54 was the American bacchanal, an unprecedented mix of glamorous sophistication and primal hedonism. The brainchild of Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, the club opened in a onetime CBS soundstage on April 26th, 1977, and immediately became the epicenter of nightlife in New York City – and the world. The sex, drugs and disco on offer at Studio 54 served as the perfect release for a generation raised under the pressures of Watergate and the Vietnam War. Though the club was ultimately destroyed by vice and greed, its short reign defined the flashy exuberance of the late Seventies, before the scourge of AIDS ended the party forever.

-Rolling Stone

These bizarre photos show the world’s biggest rock stars as tourists in 1970s Japan

When Led Zeppelin arrived in Japan for a 1971 tour less than two months before the release of their fourth album, it was a time of great excitement for the band and for rock ’n’ roll in the land of the rising sun. Zep was one of the first big Western groups to visit, and the lads were welcomed with open arms during their five-gig stint—the more so after their September 27 benefit show for victims at Hiroshima. The city’s mayor even bestowed on the band an honorary medal, leading the ever introspective Jimmy Page to ponder: “It made me think long and hard about the concept of war and its concentrated horror.”

-Timeline