October 2009
19 posts
Aokigahara Suicide Forest →
“Called ‘the perfect place to die,’ the Aokigahra forest has the unfortunate distinction as the world’s second most popular place to take ones life (the first is the Golden Gate Bridge). Since the 1950s, Japanese businessmen have wandered in, and at least 500 of them haven’t wander out, a rate of roughly 30 suicides in the forest a year. Recently these numbers have...
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PJ Harvey: Angelene
100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language →
Picks include chatoyant (to shine like a cat’s eye), petrichor (the smell of earth after rain), and mondegreen (the mishearing of a phrase or lyric)
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Cat Power covering Mary J. Blige’s...
Dr. Denis Mukwege was among the other 204 nominees...
From Wikipedia:
“Denis Mukwege (born circa 1955) is a Congolese gynecologist. Working in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been gang-raped by Congolese militia, Mukwege has probably become the world’s leading expert on how to repair the internal physical damage caused by gang rape. He has treated 21,000 women during the Congo’s...
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Weekend: Nostalgia
“The photo on your wall...
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