E. N. Forster's The Machine Stops is not simply prescient; it is a jaw-droppingly, gob-smackingly, breath-takingly accurate literary description of lockdown life in 2020. (via Strange Company)
These Side-By-Side Photos Show Just How Hypocritical People Can Be About The George Floyd Protests.
The Deadly Irish Epidemic That Helped Bring Dracula to Life. Bram Stoker worked hard to create a monster as terrifying as cholera.
Porn star who makes penis candles arrested for murder after psychedelic toad venom ritual. Headline of the year, and this year has some stiff competition.
35 Restaurants That Have No Idea How To Serve Food. Broccoli on a bed of barbed wire, anyone?
What a rubber bullet can do. Warning: graphic. (via reddit) Oh yeah, this one, too.
Jane Cakebread: The Drunkest Woman in the World. (via Strange Company)
The Mathematician Who Cleared WW1 Trenches of Poisonous Gas. (via Damn Interesting)
A blast from the past (2011): The Origins of Weird State Park Names (Part One).
2 comments:
"Headline of the year, and this year has some stiff competition" -- hahahahahahahaha!
Nice collection. A
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