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Land Sickness can be just as unsettling as seasickness.

Seasickness happens when a person’s body struggles to grow accustomed to a boat’s motion patterns, causing them to feel unsteady and often nauseated. But land sickness happens in reverse.

Mary Beth Skylis




Some of them had no choice.

From the Founding Father who stuck whalebone where he shouldn’t have to the only known woman to have given herself a C-section.

Jake Rossen, Erin McCarthy
The survivors of 'Lost.'

What began as a show about the survivors of a plane crash attempting to survive all alone on a tropical island quickly turned into something much different—and weirder.

Erin McCarthy