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Lauren Beukes's Broken Monsters Lauren Beukes's latest crime/horror novel Broken Monsters marries the snappy, hard-boiled cleverness of her 2010 novel Zoo City with the visceral horror of 2013's The Shining Girls and yields up a tale that's as terrifying as it is contemporary -- Cory Doctorow reviews Broken Monsters. Read the rest... Woman has third breast implanted Jasmine Tridevil, a massage therapist in Tampa, Florida, claims that she had a third breast implanted to get famous, land a reality show, and become "unattractive to men" because she doesn't "want to date anymore." Details at Real Radio 104.1 Here is Jasmine Tridevil's Twitter. Here's the radio interview: (via The Week) Read the rest... Mysteries of the Unknown: Inside the world of the strange and unexplained As a kid, I devoured cheap paperback books about "strange but true" phenomena. The short stories were anthologized from men's adventure magazines of the 40s-60s and recounted mysteries such as: Who made the eerie statues on Easter Island? Read the rest... The internet's population, mapped by nationality Mark Graham's map reveals that northwestern Europe and Korea are ahead of the pack when it comes to internet penetration, while India, Indonesia and much of Africa lag behind. Read the rest... "Mattress Girl" draws attention to campus assaults Vanessa Grigoriadis on a student and rape survivor who carries a mattress wherever she goes to highlight the prevalence of campus assault: "pointing a finger not only at assailants but also the American university, the ivory tower of privilege, these survivors have built the most effective, organized anti-rape movement since the late '70s." Photo: Jessica Valenti. Read the rest... Gimp Man gives £1 to charity every time someone posts a photo of him Photo: BBC The BBC interviews the "Gimp Man of Essex," whose novel campaign to raise awareness for his flavor of fun has meet with a mostly welcoming response: "the chief executive of Colchester Mind said the charity was thankful for Gimp Man's support." Read the rest... How to quit your job in style Proptip: reveal oneself as the subject of the TV segment one is reporting, then declare "Fuck it, I quit." Read the rest... The narrative lottery at XOXO Glenn Fleishman reports from Portland's beloved arts and technology festival, where a darker sense of mission and meaning took hold in the event's third year. Read the rest... Ten untranslatable words Ella Frances Sanders illustrates words held to be untranslatable, to English equivalents, from their native languages. Read the rest... Skull pancake Saipancakes Read the rest... Death stalks the joyriders Illustration from the pentecostal youth magazine Christ's Ambassadors, October, 1926 Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list