Things I’ve read or watched and kept:
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Third places are disappearing — On the slow loss of the third place: the cafés, bars, and public rooms that are neither home nor work, and what goes with them.
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Bowling Alone — Robert Putnam’s account of the collapse of American civic and social participation, and the idea of social capital that came out of it.
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A Psychologically Rich Life: Beyond Happiness and Meaning — Oishi and Westgate argue there’s a third dimension to a good life alongside happiness and meaning: psychological richness, the kind that comes from varied experience that changes how you see things.
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Cameras Complicated the Truth in Images. A.I. Will Kill It. — Photography’s claim to be evidence was always shakier than we treated it, and generative models finish the job.
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Love+War — Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin follow the conflict photographer Lynsey Addario, and the pull between the work of documenting war and the rest of a life.
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Blink — A Montreal family takes their children around the world after three of the four are diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, to give them things worth remembering while they can still see.
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The unsettling message for investors from the financial cycle — The FT on where the long financial cycle sits and what that implies for anyone invested through it.
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How exercise influences the brain — A review of the mechanisms by which physical activity changes the structure and function of the brain.
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Diet quality and the precursors of early-onset colorectal cancer — On how overall diet quality relates to the lesions that precede colorectal cancer in people under fifty.
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Large study links gum disease with dementia — Periodontal disease turns up as an association with later dementia risk, which is a stranger result than it first sounds.