14 mars 2015
Virtual Reality Won’t Just Amuse—It Will Heal Millions
The plane already was convulsing by the time the “please fasten seatbelt” sign came on. Dark, foreboding clouds filled the sky. We must have been flying right into a storm. All I could think of was that opening scene in Lost where the plane splits in half. We rode out the turbulence and made an uneventful landing. As the plane came to a stop on the tarmac, I pulled off my goggles, and the virtual world of the cabin disappeared. I was in a conference room in the offices of River, a startup incubator in San Francisco’s SoMa district, miles from the airport.
-Wired
How to Live Forever
Could technology help to make our minds last forever? Consider the following parable, about a very wealthy man I’ll call Nicolas Flamel. As he became older, Flamel became fixated on the idea that he didn’t want to die. After considering the problem for a long time, he figured that what he needed to do was move the contents of his mind into a receptacle more stable than a human head. Flamel was an engineer who made his fortune in networks, and he felt confident that what we think of as our brains—and as ourselves—was really nothing more than a combination of electrical pathways. Surely these could be copied and stored somewhere safe. The task would be daunting but not impossible: there are eighty-five billion neurons in the average brain, and mapping them seemed to be a problem not unlike mapping the Internet. Flamel liked to tell his friends, “One day, you’ll start reading e-mails from me, and wonder where I went.”
-The New Yorker
The simple secrets to happiness : turns out a better life rests on habits
After every trip to the bathroom when he’s at home or in a hotel room, BJ Fogg will get down on the ground and do two push-ups. Then he’ll wash his hands. It sounds kind of weird, if you stop to think about it, but Fogg doesn’t think about it anymore. It’s a habit he has worked to develop over the past two years to help get in shape. Now, the push-ups come automatically and he gets a surge of energy each time. Often he doesn’t stop at two. On some trips, he might do 10 or 25. “I probably did 50 or 60 push-ups yesterday,” he says.
-MACLEAN'S
8 mars 2015
My Husband Learned The Hard Way Why Women Cheat
"How could you have done this to me, to us? Who are you and who did I marry?" With tears in his eyes, my ex-husband shouted and screamed these questions at me on the day he found out that I'd had an affair. All the while, I stood there shaking, in shock, not knowing what to say that would make what I had done right.
I was a cheater. Looking back, I realize that nothing in that moment would have given him the solace and comfort that he was looking for -- or that I was looking for. His love and care for me transformed into pure disdain and hate for the monster I had become in his eyes.
-Huff Post
7 mars 2015
The Reindeer Riders
If the descendants of ancient legends truly exist among us today, these are they. Despite the odds, the nomads of Outer Mongolia are a people seemingly immune from degeneration, still living in such proximity to wild animals with a certain spiritual wisdom, sense of healing and well-being lost to our notions of time and laws of civilization. The ancient Greek poet Pindar once described a perfect land called Hyperborea, beyond the great wind in the Altai Mountains of Central Asia, where the sun always shone, where a race of healers lived with “neither disease not bitter old age is mixed … in their sacred blood; far from labor and battle…”
-Messy Nessy Chic
How We Learned to Kill
THE voice on the other end of the radio said: “There are two people digging by the side of the road. Can we shoot them?” It
was the middle of the night during my first week in Afghanistan in
2010, on the northern edge of American operations in Helmand Province,
and they were directing the question to me. Were the men in their sights irrigating their farmland or planting a roadside bomb? The Marines
reported seeing them digging and what appeared to be packages in their
possession. Farmers in the valley work from sunrise to sundown, and
seeing anyone out after dark was largely unheard-of.
-NY Times
La Corée du Nord sera-t-elle libérée à coups de clés USB ?
Une passionnante enquête de «Wired» s'intéresse aux activistes qui tentent, en introduisant films et séries américains en Corée du Nord, de changer les mentalités des habitants d'un pays coupé du monde.
-Libération
Photos Showing The Journey Of A Homeless Train Hopper (24 Pics)
Train hopping is illegal, not to mention very dangerous. Train hopping is hitching a ride on a railroad freight car and using this as your mode of transportation. These are the pictures from one young homeless train hopper that rode the trains for 5 years and documented the journey with these pictures.
-Cool Crack
My Reunion with Christiane F
An early photographer of American punk rock, Brad Elterman captured many of the greatest musicians of the 70s and 80s at the height of their beauty and talent. Le Reve is a column that follows the photographer on his continuing adventures. Brad has been living the dream for decades, and he still takes photographs every day and stocks the swimming pool at his Bel Air home, Villa Le Reve, with beautiful women, artists, fashionistas, and cultural luminaries. In this installment of Le Reve, Brad reconnects with the mysterious and reclusive Christiane F. for the first time since 1981.
-Vice
1 mars 2015
Tomber le long de Despentes. Désillusion généralisée dans une société déshumanisée, vue par l’auteure de «Baise-moi»
Ils avaient 20 ans au début des années 1980. Ils avaient le rock dans la peau. Ils étaient libres. S’éclater soir après soir, en piochant sur leurs instruments, ils n’en demandaient pas plus. À l’aube de la cinquantaine, que sont-ils devenus ?
C’est une génération on ne peut plus désenchantée, dans une capitale française en pleine mutation, que met en scène Virginie Despentes dans son septième roman, Vernon Subutex 1. Crise économique, crise identitaire, violence endémique, racisme grandissant, montée de l’extrême droite, augmentation phénoménale des sans-abri… Comment survivre quand on a perdu ses repères ? Comment faire taire sa colère ?
-Le Devoir
