Research confirms that being out in more natural settings is helpful for our well-being and has positive effects on our cognition above and beyond those coming from exercise alone.
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“Writing a novel is writing while trying not to hate what you’re writing.” On trying to remember how to write fiction.
↩︎ Meditations in an Emergency
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New art: “Guts” by Samara Golden. “The artist attempts to let go of logic altogether and the fallacy of anything ‘making sense.'”
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Are there unrappable words? Probably not—and pulchritude, amortize, hoarfrost, and chilblains may be just around the corner.
↩︎ Lit Hub
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Week Two in the 2022 ToB, presented by Field Notes, and If you’re not in the feels yet, you’re not playing it right.
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Two weeks after the girls’ deaths, a woman in another part of Uttar Pradesh was found hanging from a branch by the pallu of her sari; two days later, a teenage girl was found hanging from a eucalyptus tree.
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What I noticed most often was a sort of Halo effect in which I tended to assume the people I met and liked were more attractive than they actually were.
↩︎ Infovores
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Olga Khazan spent the week watching Russian television. “Over time, uncertainty hardens into cynicism and resignation.”
↩︎ The Atlantic
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