Category: Blog
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‘Am I 68? 69?’ Irvine Welsh on growing old, getting clean, bashing out his new novel – and flirting with guns | Irvine Welsh | The Guardian
“The worst part is the psychological thing. Once [drug use] is in your emotional vocabulary as your get-out – ‘I can stop feeling crap by doing this’ – you have to reorder your thinking.” View image in fullscreen Las Vegas, where Welsh’s new novel is set. Photograph: Heather Diehl/Getty Images Reordering thoughts isn’t always easy,…
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Avec les canicules, « des dégradations importantes des fonctions physiologiques et cognitives apparaissent »
Ensuite, ce sont les fonctions sociales qui vont être mises en retrait. Parler, écouter, regarder l’autre, ses expressions faciales, interagir requiert du cerveau qu’il traite une quantité d’informations considérable. Avec, à la clé, un risque de « surchauffe ». Tout ceci explique pourquoi, lors de fortes chaleurs, on peut se sentir plus irritable, moins sociable et avoir…
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I’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned | Melanie Challenger | The Guardian
Our bodies both generate and direct energy to preserve our own organisation. In this sense, it is the body that is synonymous with selfhood. This is no longer a philosophical claim. In cognitive science, Lawrence Barsalou’s influential account of “grounded cognition” argues that thought depends on perception, bodily states and situation. In neuroscience, Antonio Damasio’s…
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Astronauts ‘observer’ sensation — the feeling of watching their own lives from a half-step outside the frame, ‘jet-lag of the self’
Crew members talk about feeling slightly delayed in conversations. They report a doubled awareness — being present while also watching themselves be present. Some say it feels like the first week of a new job that never quite ends. Others compare it to jet lag of the self. NASA’s own post-flight reflections from station crews…
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Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts
Datatype is an OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images, no rendering library — just type the syntax and Datatype’s ligature substitution does the rest. — Read on franktisellano.github.io/datatype/
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Could our preoccupation with mental health be part of the problem? – Marginal REVOLUTION
In some ways, encouraging people to think and talk more about their mental health is a good thing. There is now less stigma around mental illness, and more people who can benefit from professional help are getting it. But there is also reason to believe that efforts to bring attention to mental health struggles are…
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‘It was like something was crawling over me’ – the worrying rise of shingles among millennial women | Health | The Guardian
“It only takes a small gap in your immune function to let this virus pop out. Having a respiratory disease like Covid or flu … getting a bad sunburn, having type 2 diabetes or even treatment with steroids (which suppress immune system responses) can lead to an eruption of shingles.” She also believes, “something else…
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Aptonymes, palindromes et autres énantiosèmes, curiosités savoureuses de la langue française
Le plus long mot palindrome du français est le verbe ressasser, mais il existe aussi des phrases palindromes. Certaines sont célèbres : « Ce reptile lit Perec » (Georges Perec), « Esope reste ici et se repose » (Maître Capello), « Elu par cette crapule » (Marcel Duchamp), « L’ami naturel ? Le rut animal » (Louise de Vilmorin) « Et si l’arôme des bottes révèle…
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13 surprising reasons you’re always dog tired – and what to do about it | Sleep | The Guardian
While you sleep, your brain is putting in a shift. Dr Jemma King provides an analogy: “Imagine all the events that happen during the day get documented and put into a manila folder that’s stacked on the desk of your personal librarian, who works through the night, deciding what to keep and what to discard.…