Steve Shubin wants us to talk more about touching ourselves. The
inventor of the world’s most successful sex toy, the Fleshlight, a
polymer vagina housed inside something that looks a bit like a fat
torch, said that it's a man's duty to masturbate frequently. As such, he's baffled as to why dildos have become an acceptable brunch conversation topic while male sex toys remain taboo.
-Vice
Photojournalist Peter Menzel and his wife and writer Faith D'Aluisio,
from California, spent three years travelling to 30 countries visiting
countless people to document what they eat over the course of a single
day. The result is a fascinating study of people and their diets.
-Amusing Planet
It is just after lunchtime on a wet Monday in February when Henry Marsh
is finally able to return to the operating theatre in the Atkinson
Morley Wing of St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south London, and begin
the work that will save a young woman’s life.
Jenny is not long out of her teens; the previous week, she had
collapsed – from a haemorrhage, the result of an abnormality in the
veins and arteries of her brain. She had been close to death: late at
night, Henry had operated to remove a blood clot and save her life. But a
later scan showed that the abnormality remained. If the problem was not corrected, she could suffer another bleed at any time. So this will be the second time he has been inside her skull.
-New Statesman
