Heh-Heh. Huh-Huh. Mike Judge Brings Back ‘Beavis and Butt-Head.’

Judge, the creator and voice of the malevolent metalheads, explains why he’s reviving his emblematic 1990s cartoon series in 2022.There are certain sounds that will forever evoke the 1990s in our collective sense memory. The opening guitar riff of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” The chimes of a dial-up modem. The persistent, grating laughter of Beavis and Butt-Head.

- NY Times

 

Secrets of the Voynich Manuscript

 

South East Asia's extraordinary freedivers

Scattered through Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, the Bajau are a semi-nomadic tribe of fishers with extraordinary freediving skills. Research has shown that their anatomy has evolved to help them remain underwater for a longer time. The Bajau’s traditional respect for their environment sets them as an example for ocean conservation.

- BBC

 

Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong

Eric Barker is a writer and blogger whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Financial Times. His first book, Barking Up the Wrong Tree, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller. His latest, Plays Well with Others, was praised by our curator Daniel Pink as “humorous and profound.”

Below, Eric shares 5 key insights from his new book, Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong.

- Next Big Idea Club

 

The Kids in the Hall Have Gotten Old. Their Comedy Hasn’t.

A new documentary explains the undersung Canadian troupe’s brilliance, and a new season of its sketch show confirms it.

The Kids in the Hall were very nearly not the Kids in the Hall. As Mark McKinney recalls in the two-part documentary “The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks,” he pushed for the Audience, the name of the group that he had performed in previously with Bruce McCulloch. “Thank God I didn’t win that fight,” he says.

- NY Times

 

Someone made A Putin Mosaic Out Of Penises

This image of the President of Russia is actually a bunch of dicks.

- boingboing

 

Quand le libertinage change une vie

Cela fait seulement trois ans. Trois petites années que son couple, vieux de 30 ans, est officiellement libertin. Et Roxane n’est plus du tout la même depuis. Récit d’une « renaissance ».

C’est le mot qu’elle emploie pour parler de ce changement de vie : « Je me suis sentie renaître. » Tout un revirement, quand on connaît son cheminement. Un parcours qu’elle ne se fait pas prier pour raconter, avec plusieurs allers-retours entre son passé « refoulé », comme elle dit, et son présent teinté d’ouverture, et surtout de liberté.

- La Presse

 

«Le petit frère»: tragiquement beau

Après s’être littéralement dévêtu pour les deux premiers tomes de sa série érotico-autobiographique Extases, voilà que l’auteur Jean-Louis Tripp nous offre un morceau de son âme dans Le petit frère, un récit poignant dans lequel il raconte la mort tragique de Gilles, son jeune frère de 11 ans, en 1976. Tragique comme dans être fauché par un chauffard qui prend la fuite en laissant pour presque mort un enfant en plein milieu de la route, en pleine campagne. Aussi bien dire en plein milieu de nulle part.

- Le Devoir

 

Léonie Gray - Slitted Tongue

The Lost Art and Delight of Mexican Calendar Art

Sex sells – and the message couldn’t have been any clearer when it came to advertising in post-revolutionary Mexican. Images of beautiful people served a multitude of purposes: a nationalistic one to quite blatantly plug the new regime, that of a new bountiful and fertile country, modern, productive and populated by good-looking folks from a rich historical pas – as well as to flog every product and service under the Mexican sun and beyond. The medium for this enlightened show was the printed calendar, mass produced for the masses who, throughout their history, have placed great significance on the days, months and years. These vivid calendars have possibly been some of the most noticed, yet least recognized of the visual arts.

- Messy Nessy Chic

 

Does anyone ever really feel ‘grown up’? I asked some older people to find out

I’m an adult, with the white goods and paperwork to prove it. So why don’t I feel it? I went on a quest to understand.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to be a grownup. As children, my friends and I would play at being shopkeepers and customers, thrilled to inhabit an adult role. As a teenager, I lived alone abroad. By my 30s I had all the things I thought signalled adulthood: a career (as a journalist), a home, a husband, a washing machine, a dishwasher and a fridge. All the paperwork and white goods to prove I was finally the competent, confident adult I had always hoped to be.

- The Guardian

 

Marie Darrieussecq : « Un garçon respectueux n’était pas un vrai mec et moi-même, j’étais formatée au point d’être très amoureuse d’un garçon qui me dominait »

L’écrivaine a laissé le réalisateur Rodolphe Tissot adapter « Clèves » , l’un de ses meilleurs romans, en téléfilm pour Arte. L’histoire de Solange, une jeune femme qui navigue de son mieux dans les eaux troubles de l’adolescence.

- Le Monde

 

I'm a Consent Monitor at a Sex Club – Here's What My Job Entails

Your run-of-the-mill nightclubs could learn from the organisers of London's sex parties – events that typically consist of a dance floor with playrooms used for BDSM play and other intimate sexual escapades – who recruit trained consent monitors to keep a watchful eye on proceedings.  Clearly uniformed but separate from security, they mainly tell people where the toilets are and how to get to the main room, but they also trawl the club checking in on people’s wellbeing and looking out for sexual harassment and assault.

- Vice