![]() ![]() ![]() The first video in the series gives a good idea of the kind of shock you too might experience should you suddenly find a freezing cold object inside your genitals.Īt least one guy even tried to get in on the fun by putting an ice cube up his butt, so.good for him.Īlthough the trend has quickly become yet another way to seek attention through self-harm-one of the key human needs that TikTok fills-it originated in the often misunderstood science of cryotherapy.Ĭryotherapy or cold therapy is the process of using really cold temperatures, like -160☏ and below, to treat body tissue. Like most brilliant ideas, this was kicked off by a bored teenager with a lot of free time to kill. The latest in idiotic (and potentially dangerous) TikTok challenges has girls putting ice cubes inside their vaginas and sharing their surprised reactions. ![]() Maybe it's part of a healthy curiosity about one's body and sexuality. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Saving the intended victim of the attack, Harvath becomes party to a perilous race to uncover a secret so powerful that militant Islam could be defeated once and for all. Present day: When a car bomb explodes outside a Parisian café, Scot Harvath is thrust back into the life he has tried so desperately to leave behind. ![]() ![]() Minister to France Thomas Jefferson, who is charged with forging a truce with the violent Muslim pirates of the Barbary Coast, makes a shocking discovery-one that could forever impact the world’s relationship with Islam. June 632 A.D.: Deep within the Uranah Valley of Mount Arafat in Mecca, the Prophet Mohammed shares with his closest companions a final and startling revelation. Brad Thor, master of suspense and #1 New York Times bestselling author is back with his highest-voltage thriller to date in which Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath must race to locate an ancient secret that has the power to stop militant Islam dead in its tracks. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'A c ool, chilling and elegant novel' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent With the emotional power of My Dark Vanessa and the reflective haze of The Girls, The Divines is a compulsive debut exploring the intoxicating, destructive relationships between teenage girls. But the more Josephine recalls, the further her life unravels, derailing not just her marriage and career, but her entire sense of self. With each memory that resurfaces, she circles closer to the ugly secret at the heart of the school's scandal. īut an impromptu visit reawakens blurry recollections of those doomed final weeks that rocked the community. She hasn't spoken to another Divine in fifteen years, not since the day the school shut its doors in disgrace. ![]() But for Josephine, now in her thirties, her time at St. ![]() They were fiercely loyal, sharp-tongued, and cutting in the way that only teenage girls can be. John the Divine, were notorious for flipping their hair, harassing teachers, chasing boys and chain-smoking cigarettes. ![]() The girls of elite English boarding school, St. My mother was Divine and her mother before that, which isn't uncommon.Īlthough that was at a time when being Divine meant something. Set in the final days before a shocking tragedy forces an elite boarding school to shut its doors for good, Ellie Eaton's The Divines is a razor-sharp debut that asks the question: were you really as good as you remember? ![]() ![]() There has also been a manga adaptation, and with the novels localized and available in English through retailers like Amazon, its growing popularity could see it get an anime adaptation. ![]() Her Majesty's Swarm is created by the interestingly named author 616th Special Information Battalion, with Eiri Iwamoto illustrating the light novels. Now bent on gaining revenge on a world she once loved so much, she uses her knowledge of the "game" to enact vengeance. Martin's Press, an extension of Macmillan Publishers. She quickly becomes accustomed to being worshiped by her insectoid swarm, but this cruel new universe has several tricks to play. The protagonist soon loses one of her swarm, with nearby villagers also massacred for no reason. Betrayed is the second novel of the House of Night fantasy series, written by American authors P.C. Like many isekai protagonists, she suddenly finds herself reborn into the world of the game, now in the body of a young teenage girl who rules the Arachnea faction. The story involves a college student who's a huge fan of an online game where she plays in the evil faction known as Arachnea. ![]() ![]() Her Majesty's Swarm is a rather interesting take on the "bug reincarnation" trope of isekai, as well as the revenge trope. ![]() ![]() ![]() The idea that Harry was intent on pushing back against public perceptions comes up again later in Moehringer’s piece. Moehringer pushed back, and at one point feared he had gone too far.īut then Harry “shot me a mischievous grin,” writes Moehringer, before the prince told him: “‘I really enjoy getting you worked up like that.’” ![]() Harry revealed that people had always questioned his intellect, and he felt that the passage would show that he “had his wits about him,” even after being kicked, punched and deprived of sleep and food. Prince Harry served in the British Army for 10 years, completing two tours of Afghanistan and retiring from service in 2015. Moehringer starts by recounting a row with Harry during the editing process, when the prince wanted to include a clever retort he had made after some fellow soldiers had brought up his dead mother, Princess Diana, during a military training exercise. Moehringer writes about how his family was harassed by the press after his identity was leaked, and how journalists misrepresented parts of the duke’s story. In an op-ed piece for the New Yorker, published Monday, J. ![]() The key takeaways from Prince Harry's explosive memoir ![]() ![]() ![]() Magazine will be familiar with many of the 42 essays collected here, while newcomers will profit from Tyson's witty and entertaining description of being pulled apart atom by atom into a black hole, and other, closer-to-earth, and cheerier, topics. In the last section the author gives his take on the hot subject of intelligent design. He tackles popular myths (is the sun yellow?) and takes movie directors-most notably James Cameron-to task for spectacular goofs. Astrophysicist, author of Starry Messenger, and esteemed scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson joined The FOX News Rundown’s Lisa Brady to discuss the ongoing fears surrounding AI and put them in. Bringing together more than forty of Tysons favorite essays, Death by Black Hole explores a myriad of cosmic topics, from what it would be like to be inside. Tyson doesn't restrict his musings to astrophysics, but wanders into related fields like relativity and particle physics, which he explains just as clearly as he does Lagrangian points, where we someday may park interplanetary filling stations. ![]() Tyson takes readers on an exciting journey from Earth's hot springs, where extremophiles flourish in hellish conditions, to the frozen, desolate stretches of the Oort Cloud and the universe's farthest reaches, in both space and time. What would it feel like if your spaceship were to venture too close to the black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way? According to astrophysicist Tyson, director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium, size does matter when it comes to black holes, although the chances of your surviving the encounter aren't good in any case. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While the previous books were mostly happy and warm, Cute Mutants Vol 3: The Demon Queer Saga certainly took a darker turn and I am left worried, in shock, and wanting more upon finishing. This third installment of the series is way heavier than the first two. If you haven’t heard me scream about how much joy the previous two books have brought me, please check out my reviews for Vol 1 ( here) and Vol 2 ( here). This review contains minor spoilers to Cute Mutants Vol 1: Mutant Pride and Cute Mutants Vol 2: Young, Gifted & Queer.Ĭontent warnings: hate crime against LGBTQ+ people, homophobia/homomisia, trans/non-binary discrimination, misgendering, murder, death, gore, outing, religious extremism/cult, brainwash/mind control, gunshot wounds, bombing, fire, dismembering, mention of conversion therapy Publisher: Self-Published, December 8th 2020Ĭlick on the cover for my review on Goodreads. ![]() Cute Mutants Vol 3: The Demon Queer Saga ( Cute Mutants Vol 3) by SJ Whitby ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To do this, you need to be the first to act and to give someone a personalized and unexpected gift. It’s possible to use this desire for reciprocity to influence the behaviors of others. These mints are more powerful than you think…. The six key principles Cialdini identified are: reciprocity, scarcity, authority, commitment and consistency, liking and consensus (or social proof). The main message that he delivers is that if you understand these six principles, then you can use them to your advantage when trying to persuade others to take a specific action or buy a specific product. Look, this is exactly what you need to have in your life!Ĭialdini has identified six core principles that affect these decision making short cuts, particularly in relation to purchasing and consumption decisions. His work is an influential precursor to Nudge Theory, and it’s dark sibling, Sludge.Īt the core of his work is the now well accepted idea that decision making is effortful, so individuals use a lot of rules of thumb and decision making shortcuts (heuristics) when deciding what to do, how to behave or what action to take in any situation. In it, he explores factors that affect the decisions that people make, particularly in relation to sales and purchasing. ![]() ![]() Robert Cialdini published his book “ Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion” in 1984. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book concludes with more general topics, including Nozick’s thoughts on the meaning of life and what those who search for it are really looking for. ![]() ![]() Later chapters discuss his ideas of ”symbolic utility,” his evolutionary account of rationality, and his varying treatments of Newcomb’s Paradox. He addresses the moral basis of Nozick’s political philosophy in depth. The book begins by examining Anarchy, State, and Utopia and moves on to Nozick’s noted work on the theory of knowledge and his notion of ”tracking the truth.” Lacey explores the philosopher’s metaphysical writings, including his ”closest continuer theory” of personal identity, and his reflections on free will and the existence of God. Lacey presents the first book to give full and proper discussion of Nozick’s philosophy as a whole and of critical reactions to it, spanning areas as diverse as ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion. Indeed, the breadth of Nozick’s work is perhaps greater than that of any other contemporary philosopher. Although best known for the hugely influential Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), Robert Nozick has eschewed the label ”political philosopher,” as the vast majority of his writings have focused on other areas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mason takes pleasure in acts of cruelty and sexual violence, including torturing animals and molesting children. ![]() His ancestors founded a meatpacking company that dated back to the American Civil War, and Mason's father, Molson, had expanded the company into an empire by the time of Mason's birth. Mason Verger is the scion of one of Baltimore, Maryland's most wealthy, politically connected families. ![]() In Red Dragon, Will Graham mentions that Hannibal Lecter has nine known murder victims, while two other victims survived, one of whom is "on a respirator at a hospital in Baltimore." This is the earliest reference to Mason, though he is not named or further detailed until Hannibal. The novel and TV series also portray his dysfunctional relationship with his sister Margot, whom he subjects to years of emotional and sexual abuse. He plans gruesome revenge against Lecter, which sets the novel's plot in motion. Mason Verger is introduced in the novel Hannibal as a wealthy, sadistic pedophile who was paralyzed and severely disfigured during a therapy session with Dr. In the film, he is portrayed by Gary Oldman, while in the TV series he is portrayed by Michael Pitt and Joe Anderson. Mason Verger is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Thomas Harris's 1999 novel Hannibal, as well as its 2001 film adaptation and the second and third seasons of the TV series Hannibal. Gary Oldman as Mason Verger in the 2001 film Hannibal ![]() |