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These are things that exist in the world.

Prison Wife Apparel

Slideshow: Sad Dads at One Direction

Hillbilly Beatboxing is a real thing in the world.

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The ghazal is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain.

Automaticity is the ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low-level details required, allowing it to become an automatic response pattern or habit. It is usually the result of learning, repetition, and practice. Examples of automaticity are common activities such as walking, speaking, bicycle-riding, assembly-line work, and driving a car (see Highway hypnosis). After an activity is sufficiently practiced, it is possible to focus the mind on other activities or thoughts while undertaking an automatized activity (for example, holding a conversation or planning a speech while driving a car).

A demonym is a term for the residents of a locality. It is usually but not always derived from the name of a locality. For example, the demonym for the people of Canada is Canadian; the demonym for the people of Sweden is Swede. Some locations have double forms; for example, the demonym for the people of Britain can be either British or Briton. Here is a list of demonyms for U.S. states, including derogatory demonyms such as "Massholes" for people from Massachusetts.

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For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II: In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga

The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit

American soldier presumed dead 44 years ago 'found living in remote Vietnam village'

Hiroo Onoda, Japanese soldier who long refused to surrender, dies at 91

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Is It Torture Now? ISIS Apparently A Fan Of CIA's Waterboarding Techniques

Women Listening To Men In Western Art History

Dignified Debate: The United Kingdom shows the rest of the world how to have a wise, honest, eloquent discussion about assisted suicide.

Indefensible: Why Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s lawyer is leaving the defense team—and the Army.

Labor Intensive: In Defense of Sex Work
Sex work is not a liability. It is a form of labor and art; its participants don't deserve violence or stigma.

What Wellesley learned when it stopped giving out so many A's

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Charles Bukowski’s Top 10 Tips For Living A Kick-Ass Life
“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: “Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I’ll be ready.”

Negative Capability: Kerouac's Buddhist Ethic

50 Unexplainable Black & White Photos

Patrick Bateman’s New York: What Happened To The World of American Psycho

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This week, I am thinking about food.


Hipsters On Food Stamps

The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious: How the worst apple took over the United States, and continues to spread

The Land of Forgotten Cocktails: Postcards from New Orleans

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Death Penalty and Race: Race of Homicide Victims in Cases Resulting in an Execution since 1976

Economic harassment and the Ferguson crisis

Why I Don’t Call the Police: Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Debra Harrell. And that’s just the latest.

White Privilege: An Insidious Virus that’s Eating America from Within

What I've Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings

What Militarization Has Done to Our Police Departments: A few facts you might have missed about the flow of military equipment and tactics to local law enforcement.

Whitewashing and the Problem With the Ice Bucket Challenge

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Things I'm reading and contemplating this week. Also, Christian Bale IS Patrick Bateman. That is all.

THE TROUBLED BIRTH OF AMERICAN PSYCHO

America Is Not For Black People

Line By Line: "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

Robin Williams and the Myth of “Battling” Depression

Despicable Memes: How “miracle” jokes and inspiration porn demean disabled people.

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I think about racism alot because it happens alot.

Preview: No Selves to Defend – Marissa Alexander & A Legacy of Criminalizing Women of Color for Self-Defense

The Science of Your Racist Brain: Neuroscientist David Amodio on subconscious racial prejudice and why we're still responsible for our actions.

How LBJ Saved the Civil Rights Act: Fifty years later, new accounts of its fraught passage reveal the era's real hero—and it isn’t the Supreme Court.

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21 Jokes Only Nerds Will Understand

List of people who disappeared mysteriously

LIGHTS ALL ASKEW IN THE HEAVENS

What Do We Do With This Whale?

The other downside of antibiotics: Killing the useful bacteria
Author Martin Blaser looks at how antibiotics are reshaping our inner ecosystem.