Every Monday on Global Comment, we share words and ideas that make a great point, strike us deeply, take us by surprise, or are simply beautiful. The stories that are easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see.
No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional pieces of content.
Here are this week’s recommendations:
Two Dissected Human Faces? That’ll Be $600. Meet the collectors who fuel the market for the remains of dead people. (Ally Jarmanning / Slate)
The body-parts marketplace is easy to find, for anyone on the hunt. WBUR didn’t have to scour the dark web to discover a vast realm of mostly legal human-remains trading. Large social media groups and conversations among collectors happen openly on Facebook. There are groups with names like “Real human skulls only no scammer” and “The Serious Wet Specimen Collectors, Buyers and Sellers Group.” Websites like Skulls Unlimited list full human skeletons for upward of $7,000, and fetal skeletons for more than $4,000.
The sad, stupid rise of the sigma male: how toxic masculinity took over social media (Steve Rose / The Guardian)
While we should worry about the conduit from toxic manosphere fringe to teen-friendly TikTok fare, if the plan was to brainwash a new generation, it doesn’t seem to be working very well. In fact, sigmas have become a bit of a laughing stock.
The unluckiest bear you can imagine
@wanda2024l He’s a real-life unlucky bear.#tik_tok #foryou #fpy #animals #unlucky #bear ♬ original sound – wanda2024l
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