Culture Buzz These photos will turn your stomach. Krokodil is a street version of desomorphine, an opiate that's 3 times more powerful and 10 times cheaper than heroin, and has become an epidemic in Russia. It's so named because regular users develop gangrenous, scaly skin resembling that of a crocodile. Krokodil is made with such toxic chemicals that it rots the flesh and bones of its users. WARNING: Extremely graphic images.
He gets killed almost as often as Sean Bean. (via nerdist.com)
Gaddafi in Misrata, moments before he died from his gunshot wounds. (via twitter.com)
Kathleen has been preparing for her own death since ten years ago when she first volunteered for hospice. Even with a terminal illness she continued on with good humor seeing her end as just another thing that happens. This is an excerpt from Lessons For The Living.
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Mobile home manufacturers and newspapers aren't doing so hot.
Artist Dash Coleman illustrates a bunch of prominent Nintendo characters shuffling off their 8-bit coil. Sad but cute. Scute.
Here's one experience we're all going to share at one point or another, so why not learn up on it?
Science Buzz Don't worry — your chances of dying in a huge storm are extremely slim. The National Safety Council put together a list of the most common ways we collectively kick the bucket. Personally, I've got my fingers crossed for “Mauled by wild animals,” which sadly did not make this list.