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IT’S A DAY of rest, and you may be in the mood for a quiet corner and a comfy chair.
We’ve hand-picked the week’s best reads for you to savour.
How six Indian friends found their feet in the UK, in the mid-60s.
(BBC, approx 10 mins reading time)
Before long he had a better-paid job too. In fact, three of them: as a receptionist at Gilda Jewellers in Hatton Garden, as a waiter at the Wimpy fast-food restaurant on Oxford Street and as a barman at the Horseshoe pub across the road from the YMCA. One evening, as he returned to the YMCA, a group of five young men sitting in the lounge caught his eye. They were Indian, like him. “To actually walk into an institution in England with all these Indians sitting there and chattering away in Gujarati was wonderful,” he says. He’d never heard his mother tongue spoken with such ease in England.
An oral history of how the smash hit series The Kardashians came to be.
(LA Times, approx 14 mins reading time)
But it became an unexpected billion-dollar empire that turned the clan at its centre into industry titans who’ve left an indelible imprint on contemporary pop culture and reshaped the celebrity economy. The series has since spawned more than a dozen spinoffs, ancillary business ventures and countless gossip-site clicks, fuelled by romantic drama, public missteps and now a controversial run for California governor by Caitlyn Jenner.
Emma Kemp writes about how she loves running – and has no plans to stop.
(The Guardian, approx 10 mins reading time)
Soon, something happens. My feet pick up, the rain metaphorically evaporates and I slide slowly, sweetly into a familiar parallel universe, an otherworldly zone where everything feels effortless, worries disappear and time ceases to exist. Because time no longer exists, I am late for dinner, and promptly told to sit on a towel. But I have never been more content to marinate in rainwater and my own sweat, because I am high.
4. The rise of hair transplants
Why are so many men turning to hair transplants?
(The Guardian, approx 12 mins reading time)
Relationships have broken down, jobs have been lost and people want to better themselves,” says Spencer Stevenson, a mentor for balding men, who is known online as Spex. He says inquiries to his own site have quadrupled in the past year – up to 50 messages a day. He says a culture of peer permission is taking root, challenging the stigma associated with balding cures; everyone seems to have a mate of a mate who has had a transplant. “But I feel really sorry for new patients,” he adds. “You’ve got vulnerable, naive men walking into this brutal place.”
5. Mother and Baby Home inquiry
As part of her excellent reporting on the controversy around the Mother and Baby Home Commission, Órla Ryan wrote how legal threats and the Ryan Commission’s legacy impacted the inquiry.
(The Journal, approx 11 mins reading time)
Enright recalled how the Christian Brothers argued that in cases where the brother in question was still alive it was unconstitutional to make certain findings against him. She added: “Even where they were dead, they argued it was potentially unconstitutional because the Christian Brothers, as an organisation, its reputation would be tainted by association with their dead members.”
6. The commission and the survivors
Catriona Crowe writes about Commission for the Dublin Review.
(The Dublin Review, approx 54 mins reading time)
She expected to find a typed transcript of what she had said. Instead, she was sent a form consisting of 220 questions with boxes to be ticked, covering areas such as social class, religion, education, relationships, and mental health. In filling out this form after hearing Noelle’s testimony, the committee had got many important facts wrong – her religion, the date of her birth mother’s death, the date of her own discharge from Bessborough, even the fact that Noelle was adopted: they described her as having been reared by her birth parents.
…AND A CLASSIC FROM THE ARCHIVES…
This Elizabeth Gilbert story is from 1998, about Eustace Conway – who ‘moved to the woods for good when he was 17′.
(GQ, approx 25 mins reading time)
Eustace’s mother was Chief’s only daughter. Raised in the woods of Camp Sequoyah, she was rugged as all hell. When she was only 23 years old, she sold her silver flute for passage to Alaska, where she lived in a tent by a river with her gun and her dog. She didn’t marry until she was 30, and then it was to a Camp Sequoyah counselor. As soon as her children were old enough to walk, she let them loose in the woods, thoroughly unsupervised. “I suppose I was a bad mother,” Mrs. Conway says now, not very convincingly.
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I see dead people!
I’ll never look at Marilyn in quite the same light again!
Jaysus… I saw Marty Morrisey….
I see Joan Burton, Where’s the Optrex
I wear glasses. I haven’t got them on yet I can still see Einstein. Specsavers lied to me so.
They didn’t say if you can see Einstein you don’t need glasses, they just said if you can’t, you do. Those are not interchangeable.
What GIF?
The new name for CIF. But it will always be JIF to me…
Jaysus that Monroe girl had a serious musher!
“According to the folks over at ASAP Science, who made a video showing how it works”… Why NO link to the video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB5-JahAXfc
Was going to say the same thing.
Maybe it’s socially acceptable now to steal other people’s work and claim it as your own??
The article from where this was copied (http://uk.businessinsider.com/marilyn-monroe-albert-einstein-gif-will-tell-you-if-you-need-glasses-2015-4?r=US) actually has a link to youtube under the GIF and also in some text beneath the image. Funny how at the end of the article, the author Erin Brodwin has a link to hes profile, but not to ASAP Science!
Hi Byyys and Mary – thanks for pointing out that the link wasn’t included, I’ll pop that in now.
If you look to the bottom of the article, you can see it clearly states it is a Business Insider article. We have an agreement with BI which means we can syndicate each other’s content and credit it properly (they often syndicate ours as part of this, it isn’t just one-sided).
And as you can see, we have a very specific way of doing this, with a box of information that links you to other Business Insider content, the author’s name being included, and Business Insider being clearly named underneath the article.
Hope this explains things for you – any comments about us ‘stealing’ Business Insider content are obviously completely incorrect.
Thanks,
Aoife
Picky posters here these days Aoife maybe they should appreciate the service provided rather then looking to complain all the time….
Yeah it works I wear glasses I’m Short Sited but I have very good near Vision so I don’t need them to read I can see both Figures in this up close but only the first one if I move it further away
I see Amy Winehouse, must be high
I see a fuzzy grey growing maybe square and nothing else.
Probably grand so.
What the hell !!!! I hear voices……….!!!
I’m only gettin Willie O’Dea! Shoot me now!!
I can see all three, no bother.
Meh, I need glasses and I can see Einstein.
I see dead people
I see slow people!
There was a snapshot doing the rounds last week asking what happens if you see Ian Beale
If you see Marty Morrisey,you need to go for a pint……..oh wait a second!
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