Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Tuesday morning roundup

How to be helpful amid others' trauma.

I like this Caroline Kennedy. Although,
Who knew! People are mentally better off when they know they can access medical care! Note also the stats on behavioral factors (40%) as a factor in health. $hit can happen. but we have quite a bit of influence over our health.

"Humane" is preferable to inhumane, but it's even more human when you don't kill them at all.

All the morons posting pseudoscience about radiation from Fukushima had better pay more attention to actual pollution from Asia. And, surprise! "Coal-burning factories were the biggest sources of pollutants."

Reflections on science and belief, from Alan Lightman.

An articulate analysis of why Jezebel needn't have picked on Lena Dunham.

An articulate analysis of how some dudes just don't get it.

Never mind the larger points here (which Carolyn nails); I can't help but fixate on the sacrifice of moving to the exurbs. I don't think I could ever love someone enough to move to the exurbs; I can imagine loving someone enough to move to another city, state, or country, but not to the exurbs.

Selfies help us gauge our own facial expressions, about which we are otherwise clueless. Misreading ourselves and others speaks to the 'bitchy resting face' phenomenon: what we express doesn't necessarily reflect how we feel.

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