The article reads as self-congratulatory, biased, and anti-opioid, going so far as to say that therapists are providing a “powerful salve for suffering” despite later admitting that most research only shows one-third of participants experience signific…
These unspeakable giant bugs
Merlin Tuttle studies bats! You can read about his conservation efforts, or just browse his 2000+ image photo collection which encompasses 19 families, 125 genera, and 298 species from 38 countries. You can also listen to a two-part interview with him …
GET OVER HERE!
“We certainly did a ton of prep for our video shoots, but some ideas came to us while filming. With Scorpion’s spear, it started with “You know what would be a cool ass move?”. From there you can be a fly on the wall and see us working through the deta…
Dear English Language
You need to pick a frickin’ lane with the sounds you’re making (SLYT)
I could be anymeme you like
I can be brown, I can be blue, I can be violet sky… (sltwitter)
Gravity in Multiply Connected Space
Author Greg Egan has a new book out, and wrote up an explainer behind the math: “A space that is connected (in the sense that there is always a path between any two points), but not simply connected, is known as a multiply connected space, because ther…
Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future
Many people with long COVID feel that science is failing them. Neglecting them could make the pandemic even worse. Despite long-haulers’ fight for recognition, any discussion of the pandemic still largely revolves around two extremes—good health at one…
The call is coming from outside the house
Biology is how our moods and mental states are expressed, but it’s not the root cause of them. (slmedium)
Emotion is not the antithesis of logic
Becky Chambers and Martha Wells discuss A Psalm for the Wild-Built and Fugitive Telemetry (slyt)