Human Doll Cloning Is So Hot right Now in Japan

The cloning service is popular among some Japanese women looking to preserve that special moment in life such as their wedding day, cloning hair & makeup and even the dress they wore.

- Messy Nessy Chic

The Bored Sex

Women, more than men, tend to feel stultified by long-term exclusivity—despite having been taught that they were designed for it.

“The problem is not that they are functionally unable to have sex, or to have orgasms. Or frequency. It’s that the sex they’re having isn’t what she wants,” Gotzis told me in a recent phone conversation. And like other straight women he sees, “she’s confused and demoralized by it. She thinks there’s something wrong with her.” John, meanwhile, feels criticized and inadequate. Mostly he can’t understand why, if his wife is having sex with him and having orgasms, she wants more. Or different.

- The Atlantic

Yareta, The 3,000 Years Old Plant

These rocks on the highlands of the Andes looks like they are covered with moss. Actually, they are a type of flowing plant known as Yareta and it lives in colonies which can be thousands of years old.

It grows in the cold Puna grasslands of the Andes in Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile, and western Argentina at altitudes between 3,200 and 4,500 meters, where the wind blows unceasingly and the cold cracks even granite. To survive the extreme conditions, Yareta grows in packs so dense that its stems can take the weight of a human.

- Amusing Planet

16 Facts That Perfectly Explain Why Finland Is The Happiest Country On Earth

Finns are also huge fans of going to the sauna as a way to bond and connect, which makes sense, because sauna is a Finnish word. There are 2 million saunas in Finland, again, in a population of 5 million. They're in homes, government buildings, and even a Burger King. There are more saunas than cars, and it's said that more important decisions are made in saunas than in meetings. You can sauna with anyone, and people go to them (nude, usually) with friends, family, and business associates at least once a week, on average.

- BuzzFeed

A Collection Of 75 Worst Album Covers Ever. Probably.

Maybe they were deluded by their own sense of grandeur or misguided by overly supportive parents, but one thing is for certain these are easily 75 of the worst album covers from all over the world.

- Design you Trust

How sex censorship killed the internet we love

When was the last time you thought of the internet as a weird and wonderful place?

I can feel my anxiety climbing as I try to find current news stories about sex. Google News shows one lonely result for "porn," an article that is 26 days old. I log out of everything and try different browsers because this can't be right.

I pop over to Yahoo News and try the same searches, exhaling relief to see 892 news articles for "porn" from outlets ranging from Associated Press to Rolling Stone. They're there. It's just that Google's 2018 algorithm upgrade filters out news with the word "porn" in it. Like articles about porn performer suicide, tips for revenge porn victims, parents who oppose porn website age-verification (turns out, today's parents are more afraid of data collection than their kids watching porn).

 - engadget

36 Most Amazing Spy Gadgets From the Cold War Era

Cold war era is Famous for the espionage and spying operations by the world's two biggest spy organizations of that time, that is, CIA and KGB against each other. In this, they were aided by the development of new technology and gadgets. Inaccessible to the general public, some of those gadgets have been recently declassified.

- Vintage Everyday

Terrifying Illustrations As God’s Creatures Exact Revenge In The Tribulations of Tommy Tiptop

Tommy Titop is, to quote Stephen Ellcock, a ‘little thug who drowns kittens, pesters puppies and decimates the lesser creation; he gets his comeuppance in a series of dreams in which the roles of tormentor and tormented are reversed as in The World Upside Down.’ Tommy is the star or The Tribulations of Tommy Tiptop, Published by Myra & Son, London, 1893.

- Flashbak

Here's What Happens to Your Body And Brain When You Orgasm

Though you don't need to have an orgasm to find sex pleasurable, it's definitely a great bonus.

In order to figure out what's going on our brains when we climax, researchers use fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) Machines or a PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scans. These devices can measure the blood flow and neuron activity in the brain.

By studying the brain activity of people having orgasms in these machines, scientists have learned some pretty amazing stuff. INSIDER consulted with experts to find out exactly what happens in your brain when you have an orgasm.

- Science Alert

The Internet's Largest Kink Community Isn't Going To Moderate Itself

In March 2017, Sandra, a 48-year-old submissive living in Alberta, Canada awoke to discover that the Erotic Hypnosis group she'd been a member of for years had suddenly disappeared from Fetlife.com, the largest online kink community in the world. 

The erasure had come without warning or explanations, and Erotic Hypnosis wasn't the only victim: groups and fetishes involving needles, blood play, race play and consensual non-consent also went away. The weeks after disappearances were a turbulent time. The kink community was scared. "It was like Fetlife was cut in half," Sandra said. "We felt we lost such a community of like-minded people. Some of us were scrambling to go to other places, and people were so fragmented and lost."

- digg

10 People With Amnesia Who Literally Lost Their Minds

For most of us, memory is the cornerstone of who we are. Our past defines us and shapes both who were are now and who we will become. Many of us deliberately set out to make memories that we can enjoy later.It is commonly known that memories fade a little with age, and conditions such as dementia can rob people of parts of their former selves. But for people with neurological conditions like amnesia, the loss of memory can prove utterly devastating and leave them with no clue as to the person that they are.

- Listverse

Un Québécois au coeur du Super Bowl

On ferait un sondage dans les rues de Montréal que personne, à part ses intimes, ne le reconnaîtrait, ni de nom ni de visage.

Et pourtant, il est sans doute le gestionnaire sportif québécois le plus important de la planète à l'heure actuelle. L'équipe dont il est le vice-président exécutif aux affaires commerciales, les Rams de Los Angeles, affrontera les Patriots de la Nouvelle-Angleterre lors du Super Bowl, dimanche.

- La Presse

Football Nation

Mark Leibovich's Big Game exposes a rarefied caste of powerful idiots.

Leibovich has in a sense spent his entire career preparing himself to write Big Game, his new book about the NFL and the vain weirdos that populate its upper castes. It helps that Leibovich is himself a serious NFL head—an old-growth Patriots fan, as he notes often, one whose fandom dates back to the since-vanished age when being a Patriots fan was as unpleasant to endure as the team’s dreary dominance now is for everyone else. But it’s Leibovich’s years in the field—his long tours in the melting shadow of those garish ice sculptures and the blast zones of those open bars—that prepared him best for the work he does in Big Game. His book is about the league’s power elite—owners like Jerry Jones of the Cowboys and Robert Kraft of the Patriots and commissioner Roger Goodell, but also sleep-deprived scooplet-merchants like ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, unquestionably one of the great players in the game’s history and, more questionably, someone presently attempting (with the help of his personal wellness svengali, Alex Guerrero) to pivot into being a sort of aspirational lifestyle brand.

- The Baffler

Why So Many Bars Are Named After Cocks

Londoners once loved an ale whose key ingredient was a rooster.

ON FEBRUARY 2, 1663, AFTER a long day of business meetings, the celebrated diarist Samuel Pepys and his colleague and friend John Creed “turned into a house and drank a cup of Cock ale.” If the scenario of two coworkers sharing a drink at the end of the day seems familiar, the beverage Pepys and Creed enjoyed does not. The key ingredient in cock ale, which was popular in 17th- and 18th-century England, was a rooster.

- Atlas Obscura