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Love’s labour brings down hill
Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal for his beloved wife Mumtaz. The monument is now considered the world’s greatest monument of love. Dashrath Das’ monument of love may not be as beautiful, but in a way, it is more awe-inspiring than Shah Jahan’s feat. -
7 Facts About Drugs and Addiction That Will Make You Question Everything You Know
There’s no subject in our culture where the conversation is dominated by myths and misconceptions so much as drugs. We are frightened to talk about it. We are tempted to fall back on stock-phrases and mental spasms — Just Say No, and all its more modern twists. -
The Devil and Walt Disney
We all have our origin stories—our radioactive spider bites or parents gunned down outside the Gotham opera. Mine occurred in a movie theater when I was a wee child and features blood, tears and the Devil. -
Top Five Iconic Female Photographers · Lomography
At the time when photography was still practically regarded as a man’s work, these influential women not only defied the norm but did so excellently. -
Life on the fringes: What it’s like to be disabled in Britain.
Owen Jones recently wrote one of the most complete articles I’ve seen on a news site so far that actually explains the cuts to disabled people are cumulative, that they’ve been happening for years and already leave upto 30% of disabled people living in poverty. -
How to start a fire with a lemon
If you left the house with a lemon, some copper clips, some zinc nails, some wire, and steel wool but somehow forgot your matches, you can still start a fire. I imagine if you had a large enough lemon and enough wire and metal bits, you could also jumpstart a car or a human heart. -
‘There’s Not One Story That Defines Any One Place’: An Interview with Amber Fares
In the West Bank, an area slightly smaller than Prince Edward Island, where movement is often obstructed by checkpoints, one may not expect to find a lively car-racing scene. And yet, that’s exactly what we’re shown in Amber Fares’s new documentary, Speed Sisters. -
For one group of people, seeing friends decreases happiness
It might seem obvious that, for most people, happiness is positively correlated with friendships. But a paper published last month in the British Journal of Psychology found one notable exception: Extremely intelligent people become less happy when they spend more time with their friends. -
Why flying is awful, explained using your sad, lonely apartment
We can all agree that modern-day commercial flying is often a horribly unpleasant experience. -
Americans think they work harder than everyone else — and they don’t
Ever feel like you’ve gone above and beyond what your job required? You’re not alone, especially if you’re an American. -
Film Features
Kubrick’s Gold “The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.” -
Nixon official: real reason for the drug war was to criminalize black people and hippies
The war on drugs: Is it a genuine public health crusade or an attempt to carry out what author Michelle Alexander characterizes as “the New Jim Crow”? A new report by Dan Baum for Harper’s Magazine suggests the latter. -
The Strange Tale of Echo, the Parrot Who Saw Too Much
Recently, a friend of mine sent me a strange message. It was imperative, she said, that I get in touch with a guy named Geoffrey Mitchell. -
I told the truth in my sister’s obituary, so that others might choose to live
The most alone I have ever felt was standing on my front porch on a chilly February evening. -
Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems With Digital Colonialism
Wikimedia and Facebook have given Angolans free access to their websites, but not to the rest of the internet.