7 févr. 2015
Le cocon feutré de l’intimité: Tomber amoureux en quatre minutes avec n’importe qui
C’est beau, l’intimité, douce ou intense, fragile aussi. Et cela s’explique difficilement à qui n’en a jamais goûté le miel sauvage. À preuve, à une semaine de la Saint-Valentin, je reçois quantité d’ouvrages sur l’amour et le couple, jamais rien sur l’intimité, ou si peu, comme si la nommer pourrait en souligner l’absence.
On confond souvent l’intimité et les amoureux. Une psy m’a déjà fait remarquer qu’elle rencontre beaucoup de couples en thérapie, mais que peu d’entre eux sont véritablement intimes. On peut côtoyer un conjoint durant 60 ans et mourir comme deux inconnus.
-Le Devoir
Male escorts and female sexuality
Is the growing market for male escorts a sign of female sexual liberation or just a re-run of the same old stereotypes?
-aeon
The Bible Belt’s Racy New Boyfriend
How a devout young Christian from Tennessee found her calling as an explicit pansexual rapper.
-Narratively
El Ateneo Grand Splendid: A Beautiful Bookstore in a Former Theater
Housed in a magnificent early 20th century theater, El Ateneo Grand Splendid in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is one of the biggest bookstores in South America, and thanks to the vision of architects Peró and Torres Armengol, it is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.
-Amusing Planet
6 févr. 2015
Native American Trail Marker Trees
All throughout North America there are trees that are peculiarly bent out of shape, but they are not some quirks of nature. Rather, they were intentionally shaped by the Native Americans so that they could be easily recognized. They are called Trail Marker Trees, and the natives used them as a marking system to denote areas of importance such as sources of food and water, or as navigational aids and landmarks that helped guide the indigenous people along the safest route in their journeys. The Trail Marker Trees differed in their appearance and formation from tribe to tribe and from region to region, but the most characteristics form is a sharp bend low on the trunk and horizontal to the ground and a second sharp bend upward, like the one shown in the picture below. Examples of these trees have been found all across the United States and throughout Canada.
-Amusing Planet
Aptly Named Aztec Death Whistle Makes the Creepiest Sound You’ve Ever Heard
The Aztec death whistle produces a sound so horrifying, it will chill you to the bone. Described as the ‘scream of a thousand corpses’, the death whistle sounds like the cry of the undead, or the torment of a human being burned alive.
-Oddity Central
Miguel Tejada-Flores, coscénariste du film Revenge of the Nerds
Au secondaire, Miguel était le nerd de service que personne n'avait envie d'inviter dans ses partys de sous-sol. Exactement 5485 jours, trois heures et vingt secondes après l'obtention de son diplôme, il prenait sa revanche avec la sortie en salle de son film, l'une des comédies-cultes des années 80.
-La Presse/Urbania
Le « centre officiel du monde » a deux habitants, Jacques-André et sa femme
Un matin de la fin du mois de janvier, Jacques-André Istel se réveilla dans sa villa de Felicity, en Californie. Après une série de 100 pompes et de 125 flexions, il fit quelques longueurs dans sa piscine, luxueusement éclairée, puis remonta à l’étage où il déjeuna au lit comme il en avait pris l’habitude depuis son enfance à Paris. Dans la foulée, il enfila une chemise bleue et noua un foulard ascot autour de son cou, avant de se rendre à son bureau sis au 1, place du Centre du Monde.
-Rue89
24 janv. 2015
America's Dirtiest Cops: Cash, Cocaine and Corruption on the Texas Border
How an elite anti-narcotics task force became the most brazen drug thieves on the Texas border.
-Rolling Stone
The Most Ancient and Magnificent Trees From Around the World
The Bowthorpe Oak is a massively thick, millennium-old tree in Lincolnshire, England that once was rumored to hold three dozen people in its enormous, hollowed-out trunk. Beth Moon photographed the leafy giant some 15 years ago and was struck by its solemn nobility and overwhelming presence. Thus began a pilgrimage that would take her around the world to document the planet’s most ancient trees.
-Wired
Take a Photo Tour of Long-Forgotten Soviet Russian Arcade Games
I went to Moscow this fall and while there, I quit drinking forever. I hadn’t planned this, so, like anyone finding himself in an ancient metropolis with unexpected free time on his hands, I pulled out my phone and Yandexed “video game museum Москва.”
-Motherboard