October 23, 2021
"Good vibes only!"
What is spirtual bypassing. "Wellness culture, which often perpetuates ideas of toxic positivity and permanent optimism, is sometimes a driving force behind spiritual bypassing. It teaches people that they cannot be well or healthy unless they are able to rise above any negativity." [more inside]
Summer of Math Wrap-Up
The 3Blue1Brown Summer of Math challenge (previously) is now wrapped up. Let's see the results! [more inside]
nolite te TERFs carborundorum
Why Margaret Atwood’s defense of the word ‘woman’ is misguided – and why it’s so important to get it right (Independent) [more inside]
"Did you finish killing everybody who was against peace?"
Poetry Filter: The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer "...I have planted by the stars in defiance of the experts,
and tilled somewhat by incantation and by singing,
and reaped, as I knew, by luck and Heaven’s favor,
in spite of the best advice. If I have been caught
so often laughing at funerals, that was because
I knew the dead were already slipping away,
preparing a comeback, and can I help it?
And if at weddings I have gritted and gnashed
my teeth, it was because I knew where the bridegroom
had sunk his manhood, and knew it would not
be resurrected by a piece of cake..." [more inside]
Although speculative, toxoplasmosis may explain Bond's foolhardy courage
No time to die: An in-depth analysis of James Bond's exposure to infectious agents. "Global travelers, whether tourists or secret agents, are exposed to a smörgåsbord of infectious agents. We hypothesized that agents pre-occupied with espionage and counterterrorism may, at their peril, fail to correctly prioritize travel medicine. To examine our hypothesis, we examined adherence to international travel advice during the 86 international journeys that James Bond was observed to undertake in feature films spanning 1962–2021."
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