• Incest, fratricide, iniquity, murder, mayhem, and breathtaking beauty: Alexandria on dipslay in Berlin via treasure hunter Franck Goddio.

• Darwin, Zola, status groups, hippies, hip-hop, Jose Delgado, the yankees, the beginnings of speech, and “all you’ll ever need to know about the human beast.” Tom Wolfe and Homo Loquax. via.

• A theory of prostitution (pdf). Using economic models to answer the question: Why is it that prostitution is so relatively well-paid?

• Wikipedia entry on the so called Illusion of control. via.

• Keeping it surreal: “In the 1920s Georges Bataille’s art magazine Documents embraced all that was “soiled, senile, rank, and sordid” in western civilization. Its radical message is as fresh as ever.”