I loved reading “You Have a New Memory,” an essay by Merritt Tierce on what the internet is doing to our lives.
On a semi-related note: an overvierw on inattention in the internet age, and the possibility of (re-)training yourself to focus in The Guardian.
National Geographic offers a very dramatic look at the “Magician Olympics.” “This is like going into the Colosseum with the gladiators,” said one magician in the audience.
Shout out to fidgeting: A list of “life changing daily moves that will keep your body happy.”
In NPR, “An overlooked brain system helps you grab a coffee — and plan your next cup” takes an interesting look at the interconnected systems that control motion, and considers the fascinating/horrifying way that bad data in medical training can bias and obscure our ability to perceive how things actually work. "This heretical thought that maybe this is right and the book is wrong started to take hold," one scientist recalls.
Speaking of bad science: Eric “Defund the New York Library” Adams, a role model for cartoon villains everywhere, has decided to spend part of his bloated police budget on reinstating robot police dogs, tech that is surely going to work really well and have no problems. Indya Moore recently commented, “We’re out here humanizing robots and dehumanizing trans folks.”
Ada Limón has been reappointed to a two-year second term as Poet Laureate of the US. Here’s her poem, “Give Me This:”
Thanks for reading,
Kate
Those movement suggestions look quite helpful. I'll have to try them out. Don't know how well I'll do with the sitting on the floor bits though. Even when I was a 120lb teen I couldn't sit on the floor for more than 10 minutes before my hips hurt and I started to lose feeling in my feet.