The new film from David Cronenberg, Crimes of the Future,
features Viggo Mortensen as “a celebrity performance artist” who “publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances.” The film also stars Léa Seydoux, who plays his partner, and Kristen Stewart as an investigator from the National Organ Registry who makes a disturbing discovery. See the two teaser trailers here.
Kristen Stewart plays an investigator from the National Organ Registry who makes a disturbing discovery
a unique and awe inspiring human. the documentary about her, shooting the mafia, will no doubt be shown on dutch TV again shortly.
tnx roxanne van iperen.
Brother wins £1m dispute against lying sister in rare calumny case | …
i feel sad for the old man who died thinking that his son was a complete bastard and the son whose father died thinking that he was a complete bastard.
Arianne Shahvisi · What It Costs to Live · LRB 21 April 2022
Rishi Sunak stumbled when a BBC presenter asked him what he spends on a loaf of bread: ‘We all have different breads...
A non-isolated system is permitted to decrease its local entropy as long as there are larger offsets elsewhere.
noted.
if you lie completely still, the cost of living is around 1500 kilocalories per day – the amount of energy it would take to heat eighty litres of water from tap temperature to that of a scalding bath. Most is spent on homeostasis, the processes by which our bodies stay more or less exactly as they are. Homeostasis is sometimes used as a way of defining life itself: living beings can maintain steady internal states despite changeable external conditions.
1500 calories a day for lying perfectly still?! that's an outrage.
Onlangs ging de zomertijd in. De NOS schreef dat veel wilde dieren last hadden van de vroegere ochtendspits. Als de tijd wordt verzet, zijn er tijdelijk meer aanrijdingen. Dit probleem werd toegelicht door een woordvoerder van de Jagersvereniging. Een jager als expert laten spreken over herten en andere dieren is natuurlijk net zoiets als de Vereniging voor Geweld tegen Vrouwen aan het woord laten…
A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health - Mad In America
Capitalism inflicts a double injury on depressed people: first, it causes, or contributes to, the state of depression, and second, it erases any form of causality and individualizes the illness, implying that the depression in question is a personal problem (or property).
Thirty-five years after the publication of her iconic photobook, “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency”, Nan Goldin reflects on a record of life that nobody could revise.
"I went from being young to being old, I didn’t experience the transition. In your sixties, it’s a much different awareness of death, of seeing how limited your time is and how quickly it goes..."
Harvard takes a new trip into the world of psychedelic drugs
When the Harvard psychiatrist Jerry Rosenbaum decided to found an institute to study psychedelic drugs he telephoned some of the sharpest minds in neurology,
Patiënten met lichamelijke en psychische klachten zeggen baat te hebben bij Cannabisolie, dat een pijnremmende werking heeft. Maar onomstotelijk wetenschappelijk bewijs is er nog niet, en daarom wordt het niet vergoed door de zorgverzekeraars. En cannabisolie is duur: een behandeling kan duizenden Euro’s per maand kosten. En tienduizenden patiënten kunnen dat niet betalen. Lees ook: 'Legale' cannabisolie voor pijnbestrijding voor het eerst op de markt
The frontman and co-founder of The Saints died on the weekend, aged 65.
of any live band I saw, they certainly had the biggest effect,” Nick Cave told me much later. “They were the ones who could actually play
“There was a lot of hype by the time we got to London cause the punky rock thing had taken off, but back in Oz we wouldn’t have been pissed on if we were on fire,”
Oliver Bateman’s 12 Rules for Life: The Second Half
The rest of what you need to know to ensure you’re always here for it, ready to do the work. || Oliver Bateman
Rule #8—Watch events unfold in your life as if you’re your own ghost: Here’s a good one, especially if you’re tired of those boring premium TV shows starring half-pretty minor league actors still awaiting their call to appear in a superhero movie franchise. If you’re looking for a gritty, true-to-life show that ambles along in a directionless manner, look no further than your own miserable existence. If you watch the day’s banalities unfold like a Flannery O’Connor or Donald Barthelme story, even the most inane story becomes infused with the sublime.
De 30-jarige Clinton Young wacht al twaalf jaar in een dodencel op zijn executie, na een veroordeling voor twee moorden. Vanuit een metalen kooi in de gevangenis in Texas vertelt hij filmmaker Jessica Villerius hoe het voelt om te weten dat hij binnenkort een dodelijke injectie krijgt.