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#6: Satanic Panic / Peter Singer / Sleep / Water Makes Us Happy?
How To Stay Curious
July 17, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes
When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Curiously Counting: HTSC #6
It’s all about sleep, for 6, but 6 what, and is it good or bad?
WHY… | does being near water make us happier?“There are scientific reasons why we’re so drawn to lakes, rivers, and oceans.” If you talk to Wallace J. Nichols, Ph.D., a marine biologist and the author of Blue Mind, a book about the physical and psychological benefits of water, for long enough, he’ll eventually ask you what your water is. And as it turns out, nearly everyone has an answer. Pondering now what MY water is….I have a few ideas… Why Being Near Water Really Does Make Us Happier - via Pocket |
WHO… | is Peter Singer, and why is he through with America?“But the world’s “most dangerous” philosopher has some parting thoughts.” It’s striking to consider the extent to which the United States has been shaped by Singer’s version of utilitarianism—the belief that actions are ethical insomuch as they increase our collective pleasure and limit our collective suffering. His addition to this ancient idea is simple and profound: Singer believes that all pain experienced by sentient beings counts the same. Peter Singer Is Through With America - via Mother Jones |
WHERE… | did the Satanic Panic start? Oh?! Canada!?!*This comes from a rabbithole I fell into after seeing Longlegs (review, I pretty much agree with this other CBC headline: Longlegs isn't bad. It also isn't scary; I’d even offer it’s better than not bad, but it definitely isn’t the scariest movie of the year…fingers crossed for star Maika Monroe’s They Follow still to come). |
WHEN… | is it OK to pick someone else’s fruit tree?800 readers and a tense debate followed that question! My trees are right next to the sidewalk, and very easy to harvest while standing in a public space. I did that partly because my yard isn’t very deep, and partly because I had this vision of me magnanimously sharing my bounty with whoever walked by when the trees began bearing fruit. And all it took was one brazen grab-and-go to mock my noble intentions. |
WHAT… | did the internet look like in 1994?I was designing webpages for faculty while in university in the late 90s…. tried finding some of those master pieces but no luck. Thirty years ago, the baby web was just starting to go mainstream, but you could already see a pixelated vision of the world to come… 1994 also marked the start of banner ads and web cookies and online transactions (a CD, pizzas), and the birth of spam and phishing. “I think the market is huge,” Martin Nisenholtz, an advertising executive at Ogilvy & Mather, told Time. Among his guidelines for marketing to the Net: “Intrusive E-mail is unwelcome.” What the internet looked like in 1994, according to 15 webpages born that year - via Fast Company |
HOW… | will your city feel in the future?This project looks at 70 global cities, and tracks their classification from present day to 2070. How will your city feel in the future? - via The Pudding Point that jumped out: the disappearing cold climates. |
Curious Counting: The Solution for #6
“Getting six hours of sleep a night simply isn’t enough for you to be your most productive. In fact, it’s just as bad as not sleeping at all.”
One of the most alarming results from the sleep study is that the six-hour sleep group didn’t rate their sleepiness as being all that bad, even as their cognitive performance was going downhill.
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Complicating matters is the fact that people are terrible at knowing how much time they actually spend asleep.
Until next week - stay curious! (and get some decent sleep!)
Rob
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