Best Life has published a disturbing feature about the amount of discarded plastic that collects in currentless doldrums in the open ocean.
It began with a line of plastic bags ghosting the surface, followed by an ugly tangle of junk: nets and ropes and bottles, motor-oil jugs and cracked bath toys, a mangled tarp. Tires. A [...]

Sorry, the title is a trick. I’m hoping you think this video is a calming indie rock favorite, only to discover it is actually a man inexplicably trying to bungie jump or rappel without the proper planning, who then falls to his tiny, pixelated death.

We begin every morning with the dulcet tones of WQXR host Jeff Spurgeon, possessor of perhaps the most amiable voice in radio. At seven A.M. we heard the hourly New York Times news blip, which mentioned the infuriating report by National Geographic that New Orleans’ levees, supposedly rebuilt by the Army Corps of Engineers to [...]

It’s the same trick as making “fire from ice”: the water in the condom acts as a lens for the sun’s rays. If you’re stranded out in the woods with only a condom, you’re probably going to have to repopulate the earth anyway. And if you weren’t stranded with a willing partner, everyone knows you [...]

One might think that at 55 years old, Reid Stowe might have a better clue about what works and what doesn’t in a relationship. His plans to set sail for just under three years straight with his girlfriend, without a single stop in any port of call, may sound romantic and brave on paper, [...]

Survivor creator Mark Burnett has announced his next show, “Pirate Master.” Cribbing heavily from the Survivor template, Pirate Master will place 16 “modern-day pirates” (read: contestants) on a 179-foot square-rigged barque that will sail the seas around Dominica in the Caribbean, searching for real gold and voting out other contestants who will be set adrift. [...]

Big news from the World Health Organization: cutting off your foreskin will help prevent the transmission of HIV, particularly in heterosexual relations.
Kevin De Cock, the Director of HIV/AIDS at the WHO, reports,
Countries with high rates of heterosexual HIV infection and low rates of male circumcision now have an additional intervention which can reduce the risk [...]

The most famous quip about standard U.S. military ration M.R.E.s—”Meals Ready to Eat”—is that they’re “three lies in one.” In my experience they’re often surprisingly tasty, although the massive amount of calories in each meal will stack on the pounds if you’re not humping a 100-pound pack through the muck. If you’ve never had the [...]