Houseplant of the weekHouseplantsA reliable cascade of green that tolerates partial shade – but place it up high to protect pets
Why will I love it?
Epipremnum aureum is known as devil’s ivy because it is almost impossible to kill, and it stays green even when kept in the dark. However, it is not actually an ivy. The heart-shaped leaves are bright green and variegated with white, yellow or light green streaks and blotches.
I masturbate a dozen times a day. Am I addicted?
Sexual healingSexI have tried to break the habit, but going cold turkey affects me negatively and I find myself in an almost drunken stupor
I fear I am addicted to masturbation. If I do not masturbate three or four times a day, I feel incredibly frustrated. On particularly “active” days, I can masturbate upwards of 12 times. I find it very difficult to maintain a relationship because I have very little to no sexual desire and find it extremely difficult to maintain an erection.
Rapper Little Simz: I dont hold back I feel super free | Little Simz
The ObserverLittle SimzInterviewRapper Little Simz: ‘I don’t hold back – I feel super free’Simran HansShe is as well known for her dizzying talent (Stormzy hailed her as a ‘legend’) as she is for her privacy. So, as Little Simz releases her fourth album, why is she finally opening up?
It’s a drab afternoon on an industrial estate in London and I’m sitting, somewhat awkwardly, in the back of a parked car with Little Simz.
The Fall of Nmenor by JRR Tolkien review masterful world-building from the father of fantasy
Book of the dayFictionReviewFollowing Amazon’s Rings of Power series, this beautiful compendium of Tolkien’s Second Age of Middle-earth stories offers the ideal palate cleanser The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is a contender for the biggest TV event this year, and the show’s estimated 100 million-strong audience represents a huge number of potential new readers. This book covers the same fictional period in Middle-earth history, the Second Age.
We can win: New Orleans clergy abuse survivor secures settlement | New Orleans
New Orleans This article is more than 3 months old‘We can win’: New Orleans clergy abuse survivor secures settlementThis article is more than 3 months oldSettlement closes books on case that produced criminal conviction – and allegations of attempted hush money coverup
The estate of a wealthy Catholic deacon who admitted molesting a child and then died earlier this year has now paid his victim after he had previously tried to back out of a $1m agreement to settle a contentious lawsuit between them.
We just tore each other down: why Parkway Drive went to therapy | Australian music
Australian musicInterview‘We just tore each other down’: why Parkway Drive went to therapyJenny ValentishThe huge Australian metalcore band cancelled their US tour so they could sort out their differences. Frontman Winston McCall reflects on what they learned
Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Imagine being in marriage counselling and discovering that your partner of 20 years actually hates that thing you always say. Recently, Winston McCall found out that the other four members of Parkway Drive “don’t connect” to his lyrics.
Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins: People really thought that only men loved action movies
Wonder WomanAs the first female director of a Marvel or DC film, Jenkins has gently reinterpreted the superhero genre, bringing love and compassion to the world of fights and fantasyAt a sunbaked studio lot in LA’s Culver City, a table laden with red and blue cake pops styled with miniature fondant headbands is drawing smiles: superheroes, in small and edible form. They are tiny and temporary (gone in a gulp), which is especially pleasing when you accept them for what they are – homage to something huge and potentially lasting.
Can you hear the Hum? The mystery noise that says a lot about modern life
BooksThe insistent low-frequency sound has been heard from Bristol to Swansea and ascribed to everything from horny fish to 5G – but the enigma itself is telling
Maybe you hear it. A low frequency hum, almost a vibration, just on the threshold of human hearing. It’s not particularly loud. In fact, you might not have even noticed it yet – but once you do, you can’t stop hearing it. It sounds like a truck, idling on the street in front your house.
Carli Lloyd at the death: Ten years on from the USWNT's most improbable win
USA women's football teamWhen the US met Brazil in the 2008 Olympic final, they were still recovering from the shock of a 4-0 defeat to Marta and Co at the 2007 World Cup
The 21st of August, 2008. For perhaps the first time in their history, the US women’s soccer team lines up for a game they are expected to lose. It’s the Olympic final in Beijing, and the USA face Brazil, who thrashed the Americans 4-0 in the World Cup semi-finals 11 months earlier.
Lycra louts, Wiggo-wannabes and the way newspapers write about cyclists | Cycling
Bike blogCyclingLycra louts, Wiggo-wannabes and the way newspapers write about cyclistsA newspaper article about supposed two-wheeled terrors in Surrey betrays the prejudices and generalisations many still show towards cyclistsWe're in a curious period when it comes to the treatment of cycling in the national media. Few things bring popular approval so fast as sporting glory, of course, hence Bradley Wiggins' pretty much ubiquitous national hero status in the press.
And there's more to it now than Olympic golds.