Astrud Gilberto: Take Me To Aruanda

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Why We Cheat

 
I can tell you right away the most important sentence in the book, because I’ve lectured all over the world and this is the thing I say that turns heads most often: Very often we don’t go elsewhere because we are looking for another person. We go elsewhere because we are looking for another self. It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become.

-Slate

Sarah Slocum: the infamous face of Google Glass

There's no shortage of celebrities who have donned Google Glass, from Desmond Tutu to Wolfgang Puck. But perhaps no one has become as famous for wearing the gadget - or as infamous - as Sarah Slocum.

-SF Gate

30 Pilots And Flight Attendants Confess Their Best Kept Secrets

These questions were asked on Reddit. My mind has officially been blown. I travel a lot, so some of this is pretty scary if you ask me. Maybe I’ll start taking the train…


-Viral Quake

What the World Looks Like From the Cockpit

For most photographers, making a great shot requires a quick, coordinated burst of framing, focusing, and exposing. But for aerial photographer Alex MacLean, that synchronization also includes making sure his airplane is flying steady. “It's a lot easier than trying to take pictures out of a car because you're dealing in 3-D space. The plane will fly itself straight and level. That's even without autopilot,” he said. “I usually set myself up, pick up the camera for five or 10 seconds, and take the picture out an open window.”

-Slate

Read the Pentagon’s $59 Billion ‘Black Budget’

The U.S. military has billions of dollars’ worth of secret projects it doesn’t want you to know about. Too bad—here they are.


-The Daily Beast

22 Ravishingly Beautiful Places That are Hard To Believe Truly Exist

Nature has so much to offer that if we look at the beauty of it we will be left star-struck...possibly forever. Presenting here are places out of a fairy tale...unbelievable but true!


-Emlii

Inside Rikers Island

A former guard’s photos reveal a rare glimpse of “the box,” the notorious New York City jail’s solitary confinement cells.

-Medium

Serial French child imposter Frédéric Bourdin

On May 3, 2005, in France, a man called an emergency hot line for missing and exploited children. He frantically explained that he was a tourist passing through Orthez, near the western Pyrenees, and that at the train station he had encountered a fifteen-year-old boy who was alone, and terrified. Another hot line received a similar call, and the boy eventually arrived, by himself, at a local government child-welfare office. Slender and short, with pale skin and trembling hands, he wore a muffler around much of his face and had a baseball cap pulled over his eyes. He had no money and carried little more than a cell phone and an I.D., which said that his name was Francisco Hernandez Fernandez and that he was born on December 13, 1989, in Cáceres, Spain. Initially, he barely spoke, but after some prodding he revealed that his parents and younger brother had been killed in a car accident. The crash left him in a coma for several weeks and, upon recovering, he was sent to live with an uncle, who abused him. Finally, he fled to France, where his mother had grown up.

-The New Yorker

47 Ways to Fine Tune Your Brain

Your brain is a complex organ. It is the controller of your body, your thoughts, your state of mind and your ultimately your life. There are some who abuse it, some who under- use it, and some who overuse it to the point of meltdown.

-Dumb Little Man