OMM (On My Mind) -- August 2023 -- #1
findings & research
::: Recommended Podcasts Episodes :::
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In general, terrific Hidden Brain episodes recently (as usual).
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Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world (80K After Hours)
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::: Music :::
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Lana Del Rey picks up shift at Waffle House
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::: The Arts & The Literary World:::
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ONE ART’s 2024 Best of the Net nominations!!
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On Grief, Pizza, Kummerspeck (“Grief Bacon”) & more. (LitHub)
“Perhaps writing is waiting for things to go bad.”
Weird aside… I read this article thinking a woman wrote this about her brother when, in fact, it appears to be a man writing about his brother. Maybe consider the spectrum of genders and how those disparities tend to go (especially with siblings) as you read.
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Hanif Abdurraqib on grief
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The Banned Book Club is an e-reader app that can get you over the firewall. (LitHub)
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::: Small Explorations & Deep Dives :::
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Pure Oxygen Speeds Up Learning. Can It Help Stroke Survivors Recover? (WIRED)
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The U.S. $20 Trillion Economy by State
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How have Americans drinking habits changed? (not just about alcohol)
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20 Countries With Highest Rates Of Vegetarians
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Are you (like me) someone who has physical and psychological issues and your doctor(s) either never seems to provide satisfying answers &/or cannot seem to find the culprit &/or cannot determine an appropriate diagnosis?
Well then – this article is for you.
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“I Have Chronic Inflammation & These Are the Easy Anti-Inflammatory Lunches I Make on Repeat” (Eating Well)
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Can Robots Evolve Into Machines of Loving Grace? (Wired)
Maybe it won’t be like Terminator after all?
And yet of course… we knew this would be a problem:
NSFW: “Rise of AI-Generated Porn: Concerns over Ethics and Real-World Impact” (Tech Crunch)
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No Labels, Americans Elect and recent history of third-party candidate groups (NPR)
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We can only drink about 1% of the Earth’s water supply. (Visual Capitalist)
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“Addressing relational poverty: Help for unhoused people can begin with a simple phone call” (CBS News – San Francisco)
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Gender Equality Helps Increase Longevity for Women and Men, Study Finds (Nice News)
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Pilot Program Is Working to Prevent Heat Injury in the U.S. (Gizmodo)
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Mindfulness shows promise in reducing anxiety and depression among people with autistic-like traits (PsyPost)
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Do People With Autism Experience Depression Differently? (Psychology Today)
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How Much the Most Followed Instagram Accounts Earn on Posts
Oh. No words. Well... please donate a percentage to charity.
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Woody Harrelson’s vegan lifestyle (VegNews)
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Scientists unveil new avocado variety known as the "Luna" (Axios)
Don’t hold your breath though, fellow millennials, it’ll be awhile before this comes to market.
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Sorry Canada & Congratulations Nigeria!
Projection: The Top Economies in the World (1980‒2075)
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A 27-Year-Old Llama Sets World Record for Oldest of His Species — And He Has the Best Name (Nice News)
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ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI (Nature)
It didn’t really but…
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Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has died at 56
A thoughtful remembrance from NPR
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What NEAT means in fitness, and how to get more of it (Shots - Health News : NPR)
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Dear Artists, Writers, & Performers,
You may not have been made aware that some might say you work in the "leisure and hospitality" sector. How do you feel about this?
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Parents Are Using AirTags to Track Kids Too Young for a Phone (The Washington Post)
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“Perhaps it makes sense to outline the sort of process you’d like to fill your days with instead of being drawn to the product that caught your eye in the first place.” – Seth Godin
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THE 100 BEST MOVIES OF THE PAST 10 DECADES (Time)
Decent list… although I can’t comment on any of the 2010s films as I haven’t seen any of them.
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“Researchers said the results translate into about eight additional years added to a subject's life span if translated to humans.”
These theories are not new. “Young blood” can help the aging… this quickly leads to…concerns. You can imagine the dystopian scenarios. In reality, we may be able to do all this in a lab without harming any actual tiny humans.
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Postpartum depression pill shows positive effects, new trial data shows
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Meta-analysis finds vegetarian diets effective in lowering cholesterol, glucose and weight
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Geopsychology: Your personality depends on where you live
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Save yourself from the negative effects of too much sitting by standing up and walking around just a little bit every 30-minutes to an hour. (Nice News)
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Why do diamonds erupt from Earth’s depths? Scientists have the answer | Geology | The Guardian
“These eruptions are quite rare in Earth’s history because they require this perfect storm of conditions and events to generate them,” he added. “The dinosaurs would have been walking around in some of these areas, watching these events, and they would have been quite perplexed. They are extremely rapid events and they probably wouldn’t be expecting them.”
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Taylor Swift Seattle concert generates seismic activity
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Which Phoebe Bridgers Song Are You According To Your Zodiac Sign? (The Zillennial Zine)
Do I have to say that this is purely for entertainment purposes?
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The best way(s) to store tomatoes
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Phoenix. 110 degrees. 30 days and counting.
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Chinese zoo denies its sun bears are humans dressed in costumes
vs.
A person who has long desired to go out in public as a dog
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GPT-3 can reason about as well as a college student, psychologists report
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