Author: robert.adlington
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Should you feel grief for the dead who go to heaven? – Marginal REVOLUTION
When people hold views for reasons of mood management (however sincerely), typically they are unable to respond intelligently to questions challenging their beliefs. Even very smart people will pull b.s. out of the hat and stick with it, moving on rapidly, mentally, to some other topic. Their response is not really thought through, it is…
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How to improve your memory: 10 easy, enjoyable expert tips – from reading a book to getting more sleep | Ageing | The Guardian
“The best way to improve your memory is to keep your brain active by learning new things and engaging in cognitively stimulating activities,” says Barbara Sahakian, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. “Find something that you would enjoy, but haven’t tried yet,” she says, suggesting chess, a new language or instrument. In…
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‘The term is becoming unrecognisable’: have the experts who believed in a single autism spectrum changed their minds? | Autism | The Guardian
Autism, Wing said, ran “from the most profoundly physically and mentally retarded person … to the most able, highly intelligent person with social impairment in its subtlest form”. But what unified everyone on the spectrum was what she and Gould called the “Triad of Impairments”: problems with social skills, reciprocal (ie give-and-take) language and “social…
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Benchma(r)king – James Bridle
What we have here is, quite literally, a chair designed by someone who has read a lot about chairs but never actually sat in one. They know what a chair should look like, what it should do, the mechanics of how one is put together, the physics of holding you up. But they have no…
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The provocative new theory that could explain aging and disease | Scientific American
Sleep is extraordinarily important to mitochondrial health. That may be a big part of what drives our need for it. Neuroscientists at the University of Oxford have recently found direct links between oxidative stress in the brain and the need to sleep. As neurons fire furiously over the course of the day, ROS can accumulate.…
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Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as chosen by Eternal Family
Eternal Family is a movie streaming app like no other. From Indian comedy-horrors to Filipino rip-offs of E.T, the app collects the kookiest curios of alternative cinema. Below, the collective picks its favourites among the madness. — Read on www.itsnicethat.com/articles/eternal-family-film-project-151026
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Russian and East European Posters
Russian and East European Posters — Read on digital-collections.princeton.edu/collections/soviet_posters
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iPhone Portrait Mode, 10 Years In
There’s a saying in painting that if you get the eyes right, nothing else matters. Inspired by this principle from oil painting, the idea was to make sure we never got the eyes wrong. — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2026/10/25/manzari-iphone-portrait-mode
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Kanye West, Sam Bankman-Fried, and the Cult of Not Reading – The Atlantic
Many books should not have been published, and writing one is an excruciating process full of failure. But when a book succeeds, even partially, it represents a level of concentration and refinement—a mastery of subject and style strengthened through patience and clarified in revision—that cannot be equaled. Writing a book is an extraordinarily disproportionate act:…