Yeah, yeah, we know, some of the smartypants (what’s the plural?) out there are going to troll us and say, “Dude, that’s so old.” But we don’t care. We be like honey badger.
Here’s a look back at the things we read this week in this end-of-week update of old and new news, features and other odd stuff from around the internet world.
The internet is timeless, okay?
Disconnected in Hong Kong
Al Jazeera follows up on reports by human rights groups saying separate schooling, linguistic divides and societal discrimination are holding ethnic minority students back in Hong Kong, creating a lost generation and a widening inequality gap.
Al Jazeera
Security at the World Cup: Turning their backs on history
The New York Times interviews security guards hired at the World Cup in Brazil. A dream job, it would seem, as they attend World Cup matches and stand a stones throw away from the action and history. But they’re not allowed to watch a minute of it, or look at the field.
New York Times
Keeping tea pets in China
Apparently, keeping tea pets is a thing in China. These so-called tea pets “grow” when nourished with tea. What one does is that one sprinkles or smears tea onto their tea pets, tea pets will then glow with a kind of soft luster and smell of tea aroma. China, changing the way we understand tea parties.
China Daily
Dentists in Japan promise to make your teeth uglier
The Yaeba teeth trend that’s been in Japan since 2011. Jagged or crooked teeth known as Yaeba or Snaggleteeth are very much sought after by Japanese women.
Hufftington finds out what goes on behind the scenes at the dentist.
Hufftington Post
Peter and Jane Series
Visual Artist and Sony-nominated comedian Miriam Elia illustrates her own take on Ladybird’s Peter and Jane Series. Subtly poking at stereotypes and categories. One features a doodle of a penis over of what looks like renaissance painting. To Jane’s inquisition, her mother replies, “Because God is dead and everything is Sex.”
Miriam Elia
Around the world with a cardboard Father
25-year-old Jinna Yang travelled across the world accompanied by a life-size cardboard cutout of her father who she lost to stomach cancer. It’s her way of coping with the loss.
Oddity Central
Single woman living with her family of mannequins
Suzanne Heintz, art director at Starz Entertainment Group in Englewood, Colorado, has been coming home every day for the past 14 years to her synthetic husband Chauncey and never-growing adolescent daughter, Mary Margaret. Puts a new meaning to “there’s nothing money can’t buy”.
Oddity Central
Korean versions of Snooki and Jwow
Korean Reality TV “K-Town” is literally the Korean version of Jersey Shore. Not much tanning going on but oh boy, the high-pitch whining and screaming, partying and random hook-ups live on, Asian style. A homogeneous affair of muscles and eyelash extensions. Follow the series for more pretentious drama at the link below.
WatchLOUD
The secret to immortality may lie in wrinkly rodents
Over the past years, scientists and researchers have found that the key to uncommon longevity may lie in the genetic DNA of wrinkly naked moles. Apparently, they have the uncanny ability to not age and reject the growth of carcinogens in their little bodies. Could they be God’s gift to cure cancer?
Vox
Playdoh-like symbiosis of bodies
Photographer Rik Garrett explores the mix and mash of bodies in his project titled, Symbiosis. It showcases eerily playdoh-like bodies fused together beautifully to form one unified body. Much of his work touches on concepts of attachment, love, and gender.
Refinery 29
