Blow-vertising: 27 adverts for cocaine paraphernalia (1976 -1981)

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, magazines like High Times and Hustler featured adverts on the cocaine theme. You could buy all manner of cocaine paraphernalia from companies with names like Head-Quarters, Johnny Snowflake and Cocaphernalia. As DM notes, “it wasn’t until 1986 that a statute was passed making it a crime to “sell, transport through the mail, transport across state lines, import, or export drug paraphernalia as defined.”

-Flashbak

We Went to the Real-Life Fucking Catalina Wine Mixer

If you're between the ages of 30 and 40 and have a hankering to publicly make out with someone while wearing a novelty T-shirt, the Catalina Wine Mixer may be for you. The first-ever Catalina Wine Mixer—based on the event from the movie Step Brothers—occurred yesterday, and nearly 1,000 people jumped at the opportunity to spend the day drinking wine while singing along to Sublime covers. Other than the misplaced anticipation of seeing one of the movie's stars at the event, a big draw to the Mixer was the musical headliner, the Dan Band, who are known for their appearances in some notable bro comedies (Old School, The Hangover) of the 00s.

-Vice

No Time to Be Nice at Work

MEAN bosses could have killed my father. I vividly recall walking into a hospital room outside of Cleveland to see my strong, athletic dad lying with electrodes strapped to his bare chest. What put him there? I believe it was work-related stress. For years he endured two uncivil bosses.

Rudeness and bad behavior have all grown over the last decades, particularly at work. For nearly 20 years I’ve been studying, consulting and collaborating with organizations around the world to learn more about the costs of this incivility.

-NY Times

23 Free Hitchcock Movies Online

Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, directed more than 50 feature films during his long career. Today, his work is admired worldwide, and he’s considered one of our finest directors. Although many of his landmark films remain copyrighted, some of his important works, particularly his early ones, have slipped into the public domain. And so we have catalogued 23 Alfred Hitchcock films that you can watch online – completely for free.

-Open Culture

This Simple Technique Can Instantly Reverse Negative Thoughts

Depression is often described as feeling like you're stuck in a fog of negative thoughts and beliefs -- but new research suggests that a simple technique borrowed from cognitive behavioral therapy, also known as CBT, can help to clear away the mental haze.

-Huff Post

Rule of the jogi

A snake cannot bite a jogi child, and even if it does, it will not harm our child since we administer a drop of snake venom as suti (first food) to our newborns. This establishes immunity against snake poison for their entire life,” claims Ustad Misri.

-Dawn

17 Houses That Prove You Don't Need To Cut Down Trees

Most architects cut trees down to make room for buildings. But the really clever ones find a way to incorporate living trees right into the design.

-Leenks

These 12 Crazy Things Were Found on Earth, and Some of Them Still Can't Be Explained

There are some truly amazing things that have been found throughout the years on earth, from ancient cities that redefine what we know about history, to objects that remain a huge mystery. Here are 12 of the most incredible things archaeologists have found.

-OMG Facts

A Holocaust Survival Tale of Sex and Deceit

 In 1942, Marie Jalowicz, a Jewish girl hiding in Berlin, watched as a barkeep sold her for 15 marks to a man mysteriously nicknamed "the rubber director." As Marie recounts in the recently published Underground in Berlin, a riveting chronicle of her story told in her words, she was desperate for a place to sleep. The barkeep pulled Marie aside before she left with the man. Her fabricated backstory was simple; she just couldn't bear to live with her in-laws anymore. But, the barkeep added, her new patron was also "a Nazi whose fanaticism bordered on derangement."

-Smithsonian

The Former FBI Agent Who Believes He Could Have Prevented 9/11

Every year, on the morning of September 11, Mark Rossini wakes up with something on his mind that most Americans could never even fathom, let alone live with: Information once in his possession as a former FBI special agent might have prevented the terrorist attacks that killed 3,000 people 14 years ago today.

-Vice

Suspenseful Encounters of the Masochistic Kind

Peter Strickland’s third feature, The Duke of Burgundy (2014) is a film about Masochism. Here, we mean Masochism in le sens fort—as the French say—, which is to say not the cheaply scandalized sexual perversion misunderstood simply as “submission” or even that which is commonly taken as nothing more than the complement of sadism. No, to both his and the film’s great merit, Strickland is careful not to mince terms. Instead, the Masochism we encounter as we delve into the tender and perverse world of Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna)—a dom/sub couple whose meticulously controlled and repetitious relationship begins to tread the fine line between boredom and bliss—is that of the refined and distinct pornological[1] structure introduced (or rather, diagnosed) by the Austrian romantic, utopian, and humanist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Thus, in welcome contrast to the bargain-bin provocations of 50 Shades of Grey (2015) and the demonized bourgeois violence of Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher (2001), The Duke of Burgundy presents a sensitive and studied look at Masochism as it emerges from the literature for which the perversion was named.

-Kings Review

Xmas Trees, Girl Scouts and Bowling: The Other Side of Guantanamo Bay

Documentary filmmaker Trevor Ward is making a movie about the history of America's best-known military base and life as it exists beyond the prison.

-Vocativ

Inside Fort Hood’s Prostitution Ring

It was supposed to be the Army private’s first—and only—time.
The cash-strapped, divorced mother—who The Daily Beast will call Jane—wore the uniform, claimed she needed groceries, and soon met sugar-daddy Sergeant 1st Class Gregory McQueen. The hulking, noncommissioned officer must have seemed trustworthy: He was his battalion’s point man preventing sexual assaults as part of the U.S. Army’s Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention unit (SHARP) at Fort Hood, Texas, and he played the sax in a gospel band. He was even the vice president of a motorcycle club, Tru Ryderz. McQueen was all those things and he convinced the struggling soldier there was a way out.
The way out was to prostitute herself.

-The Daily Beast