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Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:29:03 +0200

The human population has already grown too large and demanding for Earth to sustainably support at current consumption levels, a new study warns.

🔗www.sciencealert.com/earths-po…

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:24:21 +0200

The exits you’ve carved so carefully have become cages, keeping you from the growth you envisioned. Every time you choose distraction over presence, you’re training yourself to believe that this moment — this exact, unrepeatable configuration of breath and heartbeat and possibility — isn’t worth your full attention. You’re teaching yourself that you can’t be trusted with your own experience.

🔗prickly.oxhe.art/avoidance…

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 02:24:18 +0200

Jack Edwards, the “internet’s resident librarian,” shares his book reviews and bookish thoughts on his Substack, Constant Reader. This week, he’s clapping back at bookish snobs. “Perhaps it’s more helpful to think of collecting books like collecting wine: you pick up novels you know you will enjoy at some time in the future. That time might be right now, or it might be next year. Like a bottle of Sancerre, you’ll bring it down off the shelf at the perfect moment, when you’ll enjoy it most. That’s okay, even encouraged, because the pursuit of literature is a deeply personal endeavour: it’s about reading things you want to read, when you want to read them."

🔗wiseup.readwise.io/wiseup-vo…

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:24:25 +0200

“Nature connectedness is now accepted as a key root cause of the environmental crisis,” Richardson told Guardian journalist Patrick Barkham. “It’s vitally important for our own mental health as well. It unites people and nature’s wellbeing. There’s a need for transformational change if we’re going to change society’s relationship with nature."

🔗www.sciencealert.com/the-words…

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:24:24 +0200

Back in 2016, deep inside a Canadian mine, geologists stumbled upon something extraordinary. At nearly 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) below the surface, they found water that had been sealed away for up to 2.64 billion years, the oldest known water on Earth.

🔗www.iflscience.com/a-geologi…

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:24:24 +0200

Explorers have discovered the world’s deepest shipwreck, lying 6,895 meters (22,621 feet) beneath the Philippine Sea.

🔗www.iflscience.com/the-world…

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:24:23 +0200

That’s right – in the town of St Paul in Northern Alberta lies the world’s first ever UFO landing pad. The idea came about as part of Canada’s centennial celebrations, and once approved by the government, saw the construction of a large platform sat atop six 75-centimeter (30-inch)-tall concrete pylons. The platform is circular, of course, because all UFOs are flying saucer-shaped, right?

🔗www.iflscience.com/canada-is…

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:13:10 +0200

The disgustingly educated are not “know-it-alls.” They’re “want-to-know-it-alls.” They collect questions like souvenirs and chase answers like lovers. Google should be tired of you.

🔗theebookclubx.substack.com/p/how-to-…

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:24:18 +0200

As Albert Einstein famously said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Except there’s no evidence that he said or wrote those words. The earliest evidence for this quote comes from a 1981 newspaper article reporting on an Al-Anon meeting. That’s more than a quarter century after the acclaimed physicist’s death.

🔗bigthink.com/high-cult…

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 06:24:19 +0200

According to a new study, humans can inhale more than 70,000 microplastic particles each day in an indoor environment – far more than previously thought. Worse still, most of them are small enough to penetrate deep into our lungs.

🔗www.sciencealert.com/study-rev…

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 04:24:17 +0200

Archaeologists carrying out excavations at Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis recently made a discovery that offers new insights into the royal lineages of Egypt’s Old Kingdom. The tomb of Prince Userefre, the son of the pharaoh Userkaf, has been unearthed along with a false door made of rare pink granite.

🔗allthatsinteresting.com/prince-us…

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:24:17 +0200

Ideal Number of Daily Steps Isn’t as Many as We’ve Been Told

This latest research paper looked across a broad spectrum – not just whether people died, but heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, depression and even falls. The results tell a fascinating story. Even tiny increases matter. Jump from 2,000 to 4,000 steps daily and your death risk drops by 36%. That’s a substantial improvement.

🔗www.sciencealert.com/ideal-num…

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:03:33 +0200

Carl Jung on the Power of Tarot Cards: They Provide Doorways to the Unconscious & Perhaps a Way to Predict the Future

As Mary K. Greer explains, in a 1933 lecture Jung went on at length about his views on the Tarot, noting the late Medieval cards are “really the origin of our pack of cards, in which the red and the black symbolize the opposites, and the division of the four—clubs, spades, diamonds, and hearts—also belongs to the individual symbolism.

They are psychological images, symbols with which one plays, as the unconscious seems to play with its contents.” The cards, said Jung, “combine in certain ways, and the different combinations correspond to the playful development of mankind.” This, too, is how Tarot works—with the added dimension of “symbols, or pictures of symbolical situations.” The images—the hanged man, the tower, the sun—“are sort of archetypal ideas, of a differentiated nature.”

🔗www.openculture.com/2023/10/c…

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 22:00:20 +0200

The Audience Effect

Our brains evolved to care deeply about social status. When we sense we’re being observed, our neural networks shift into “performance mode,” prioritizing social approval over personal preferences. The regions associated with intrinsic motivation quiet down while areas processing social feedback light up.

This neurological shift explains why an audience changes our decision-making. We start choosing safer options, more impressive goals, more socially acceptable paths.

🔗 Ness Labs

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:19:05 +0200

Strange Portals Spontaneously Appearing in the Home

One outlandish feature of the world of the paranormal is the idea of portals popping up in various places. These portals are said to lead to other locations or nowhere at all, and sometimes are even said to act as doorways to other worlds that sometimes allow things from the other side to come in. Portals seem like something one would be more likely to find out in the wilderness or remote areas, but it seems that sometimes these phenomena can happen right in the safety of our own homes.

🔗mysteriousuniverse.org/2025/07/S…