"Help, I'm alive"

“Help, I’m alive”

Here’s an article on early Kotex ads (you know, before the blue liquid). (Jezebel)

From Couch, the New York Times’s column on therapy: a writer muses on a pebble collection. (New York Times’s Opinionator)

The conclusions drawn from this article may be dubious (@Frontiers of Science), but hey, we’ll take any justification to keep drinking that we can get! Apparently, a glass of red wine is “equal” to an hour at the gym. (My Daily)

Here are the profiles of ten people who live on the “social margins,” from a man with a micropenis to a woman who is scared of vomiting. (NY Mag)

“My heart keeps beating like a hammer” via Shutterstock