On the night of October 1–2, a third of the monthly precipitation fell on Sakhalin. The cause of the bad weather was a powerful cyclone, which also brought with it hurricane winds. The Korsakovsky district in the south of the island was completely without power, and the roads in Korsakov itself were washed out and flooded. The water level reaches one meter, and the waves off the coast are up to four meters high.

French photographer Sophie Ebrard takes a look behind the scenes of the porn business in her series It's Just Love. According to Sophie, a viewer who watches an adult movie does not see the whole picture - and it “can’t get out of her head.” The Frenchwoman captured many moments during filming and in between. In her twenty-three photographs, more explicit than a similar series by American photographer Larry Sultan, the actors have sex, paint their nails, iron their clothes and fool around.

War dolphins are perhaps one of the most famous phenomena at the intersection of military technology and society, shrouded in an endless number of myths and falsifications. This does not prevent it from being reviewed even by large media outlets, the number of reports in which especially increased after the annexation of Crimea to Russia, when the Sevastopol Oceanarium came under the control of the Russian Federation.

Driving negatively affects a person's mental and physical well-being and even the way they think about other people. writes about this The portal Gizmodo with reference to scientific studies proving that driving has many more negative nuances than we used to think. A team of researchers from McGill University in Montreal analyzed several different modes of transportation to find the one that was the most dangerous in terms of stress.

top.rbc.ru Plans for military intervention emerged in the Kremlin against the backdrop of defeats for Bashar al-Assad's forces in the spring and summer of this year and the cooling of Russia's relations with the United States and Europe over Ukraine. Putin saw the Syria plan as a way to break out of the isolation he found himself in as a result of the Ukraine crisis and to restore Russia's role as a global power.

Late in the evening of October 2, St. Petersburg media reported a rapid rise in the water level in the Neva and a storm wind blowing away roofs and trees. The day before, after a heavy downpour, there was a flood on Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Prospekt. Several dozen people were evacuated from stalled cars and trams, and rescuers also had to pump out water from flooded basements in several buildings.

The publication “Paper” published a transcript of the first part of the discussion “Why are books needed in the era of Google”, held within the framework of the Open University. It was attended by teacher and writer Andrei Astvatsaturov and philosopher Kirill Martynov. TJ selected key points from the discussion.

In honor of the release of the new iPhone line, the Pornhub portal compared in detail the behavioral patterns when viewing porn among iOS and Android users. Back in 2010, the combined share of iOS and Android traffic on Pornhub did not exceed 12%, but over the next five years it grew to 63%. At first, Apple's operating system dominated, but in 2011, Android caught up with it. By 2015, Android's share is 32% and iOS's is 31%.

The long-term confrontation between Android and iOS has convinced millions of users that the Google platform has a large-scale problem with the dominance of viruses, and Apple’s mobile OS is supposedly free from this problem. However, in September it became known that viruses can also get into the App Store, and there is no universal way to protect yourself from the theft of valuable data.

www.znak.com “In accordance with the moral principles of our society, funerals and everything connected with the burial ceremony cannot be a subject for jokes. The statement “we don’t bury the living” is cynical in nature, detached from such concepts as pity, mercy, compassion and insults the feelings of people who feel the pain of loss,” from the FAS statement.

Author: Ivan Talachev The human brain is losing the war against the growing volume of information it has to process. Neuroscientists say that the human brain is very outdated, and attention is gradually becoming our most valuable resource. And rare ones too - reading books turns into a task that requires almost impossible concentration in the age of Twitter and BuzzFeed.

nplus1.ru The rich were more likely to tweet emotions of fear and anger, while the poor were more likely to tweet optimistic and uplifting tweets. Those who earned little were also prone to arguing with other users and openly expressing their religiosity (in most cases, Christian), while the rich most often discussed politics, corporations and NGOs.

Author: Zalina Marshenkulova In this week's selection you will find out who stole a 75-kilogram barbell from the top of Elbrus, what beavers and squirrels were doing, and how the Golden Clown owners are doing. A monument to human capabilities was thrown from the top of Elbrus by a local resident, mistaking it for garbage The barbell that disappeared from the top of Elbrus was found and handed over to the police. As it turned out, it was not stolen, but removed, mistaking it for garbage.

Hackers gained access to the personal data of about 15 million American subscribers of the operator T-Mobile as a result of hacking one of the servers of the company Experian, which checks consumer credit ratings. This is reported on the Experian website. T-Mobile CEO John Leger Even though the hackers only breached one server at the credit reporting agency Experian, which housed the data of about 15 million T-Mobile customers, the information they stole was enough for complete identity theft.

On October 1, Lifehacker editor Alan Henry wrote a column in which he explained why unambiguous love or hate for specific brands harms both the companies themselves and the users of their products. According to Henry, prejudice (whether hate or love) towards a certain company's products is "the poison that makes people stupid." The journalist came to this idea during Apple’s September presentation.