Tarot Mythology: The Surprising Origins of the World’s Most Misunderstood Cards (getpocket.com)
Is the Southern Accent Disappearing? (youtu.be)
Jacob’s Dream - MAGA meets the Age of Aquarius (harpers.org)
What do Americans use electricity for? (www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com)
Tuvalu preserves history online as rising seas threaten existence (www.context.news)
It’s dirty work: In caring for and bearing with human suffering, hospital staff perform extreme emotional labour. Is there a better way? (aeon.co)
A very short history of the F-word (bigthink.com)
Hot take: It’s okay if we don’t consume all of the world’s information before we die (gkeenan.co)
One of the more distressing qualities of humanity, in my mind, is the emphasis we collectively put on “efficiency.”¹ It saturates our professional existence. It haunts our socioeconomic barometer. And it drives our current approach to both creating and appreciating art. It’s insidious, the inordinate amount of power...
The Mystery of the Icelandic Naming Committee & Other Cases (guidetoiceland.is)
see also: list of rejected female names and list of rejected male names
The costs of a phone-based childhood (gifted link) (www.theatlantic.com)
The history crisis is a national security problem (foreignpolicy.com)
Should people suffering from mental illness be eligible for medically assisted death? Canada plans to legalize that in 2027 – a philosopher explains the core questions (theconversation.com)
As climate change fractures communities, folklorists help stitch them back together (grist.org)
In Search of Sustainable Fragrance (modernfarmer.com)
Many perfumes and fragrances are unsustainably extracted from plants and animals or made from synthetic chemicals. I wanted to find another way.
Arranging Love: the cloudy routes to a life partner (thesmartset.com)
Inside Alabama's Blackest Region 🇺🇸 (www.youtube.com)
Obsessive Culture War Is a Dead End. Just Ask Ron DeSantis. (znetwork.org)
The tools in a medieval Japanese healer’s toolkit: from fortunetelling and exorcism to herbal medicines (theconversation.com)
“The Tale of Genji,” often called Japan’s first novel, was written 1,000 years ago. Yet it still occupies a powerful place in the Japanese imagination. A popular TV drama, “Dear Radiance” – “Hikaru kimi e” – is based on the life of its author, Murasaki Shikibu: the lady-in-waiting whose experiences at court...
The World Capital of Endangered Languages (www.nytimes.com)
Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment (www.youtube.com)
Pythagoras was wrong: There are no universal musical harmonies, study finds (phys.org)
Archive: ghostarchive.org/archive/XuAaf | Excerpts:...
Speaking Liberation's Language: Jefferson Cowie speaks with Aziz Rana about whether the language of freedom can be taken back from its “sordid history” in the U.S. context (www.bostonreview.net)
RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study (arstechnica.com)
here’s the pre-print
Billionaires’ Survivalist Bunkers Go Absolutely Bonkers With Fiery Moats and Water Cannons (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Kinda nice (www.bydamo.la)
A kind person will help you understand reality as it is, prompt you to reflect, and nudge you to fine-tune your position till you get to a place where your resolution is helpful for you. A nice person will tell you what feels good - and often what you think you want to hear at that time - even if it doesn’t help you move past...
