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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

1/5 🔗 thewalrus.ca/life-in-the-... Before the scroll, there was the wander—the sacred act of browsing. Aisles, shelves, spines. Discovery through patience. Now, algorithms know our tastes better than we do. But what happens to curiosity when nothing is left to stumble upon? @thewalrus.ca

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Life in the Stacks: A Love Letter to Browsing | The Walrus

Algorithms are integral to how we find and consume art. But old-fashioned browsing still has its benefits

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

1/5 🌫️⏳ Design for lingering, not speed. From incense clocks to Zen halls, can our tools stretch time instead of slicing it into clicks and pings? Read: seanvoisen.com/blog/design-...

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Philosophy for Designers 4: Design for lingering

Inspired by Byung-Chul Han’s "The Scent of Time," this is an exploration of design interventions for contemplation and lingering.

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

(1/5) 🎻 Thomas Laqueur on Kate Kennedy’s “Cello”: memory that survives in wood, silence that becomes sound. From Auschwitz to Wigmore Hall, a lost cello finds its voice again. What returns when we listen this way? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... @lrb.co.uk

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Thomas Laqueur · A Different Life: Can cellos remember?

Cellists and violinists in particular are haunted by the musicians who played their instruments before them and those...

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

(1/5) 🌊 Mariners at the Dawn of History — our ancestors didn’t just walk into the unknown, they sailed. Before cities or maps, they crossed vast seas—explorers of body and mind. ⛵ What does it mean that our first journeys were over water? www.palladiummag.com/2025/10/10/m...

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Mariners at the Dawn of History

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

(1/5) 📱✨ A like is never just a like. Ruby Justice Thelot reminds us: even the smallest tap can carry echoes of love, longing, or loss. Digital gestures become the speed dials of our age, ranking intimacy in silence. Read here: beingonline.substack.com/p/instagram-...

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Instagram Story Likes and Markers of Digital Affection

User research on the meaning of Instagram Story Likes

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

(1/5) 🌟 “We needed to do something.” Lori’s story is a reminder that grief, rage, and love can become engines for change. From buses to food pantries to ACT UP, she showed how ordinary courage feeds extraordinary legacies. 👉 rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/we-needed-... @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social

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"We needed to do SOMETHING"

in memoriam, Lori Cannon

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

(1/5) Friendship, says The Shadowed Archive, is impossible—therefore it must be done. 🌊 We are not moss, spreading alone in damp silence. We are animals who rot without witnesses. Someone must see us, hear us, accompany us. 📖 theshadowedarchive.substack.com/p/an-existen...

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An Existential Guide to: Making Friends

Friends Friends What Glorious Friendly Friends!

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

(1/5) 🔗 medium.com/@mhkt/as-we-... We once became clocks. Now we are becoming cameras. ⏱📷 What happens when images saturate our reality the way time once did? The question isn’t just about tech. It’s about what it means to see and to be seen—as humans, as communities, as souls.

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As We Become Cameras

Wearable cameras will be ubiquitous. We’ll barely notice.

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

(1/5) 🧮 Numbers are universal, right? Not quite. The words we use to count shape how we think, learn, and even feel math. BBC explores how languages like Chinese or Welsh give children a clearer grasp of numbers than English or French. 🔗 www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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Why you might be counting in the wrong language

Learning numbers in a European language has probably affected your early maths ability. It turns out there are better ways to count.

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

(1/5) 🌪️ Imagine a bird flying into a hurricane, not away. The Desertas petrel, no bigger than a pigeon, rides the storm’s chaos as opportunity. Out of destruction comes abundance, the ocean’s secrets churned to the surface. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... @kathla.bsky.social @bbc.co.uk.web.brid.gy

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Riders on the storm: The birds that fly into hurricanes

When hurricanes pass over the ocean they churn up creatures from the deep – a chance to feast for predators brave enough to weather the storm.

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

(1/5) The brain is a theater of balance. Excitation and inhibition dance, each neuron in harmony or chaos. Too much spark and we seize. Too little and we fall silent. Cajal’s drawings showed the cast—today science reveals the plot. 🔗 www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brai... @quantamagazine.bsky.social

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How the Brain Balances Excitation and Inhibition | Quanta Magazine

A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of cells are blurrier than researchers once thought.

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

(1/5) Through the wardrobe we return—Narnia, not just a story, but a mirror of childhood wonder and adult grief. Goldwag revisits Lewis with fresh eyes, reminding us that myth and memory are doorways into our own psychology. 🔗 nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/r... @goldwagnathan.bsky.social

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Returning to Narnia (Part One)

I don’t remember the first time I read the Chronicles of Narnia. Possibly my dad read them to me when I was very little? It was just one of those series that was foundational to my childhood,…

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

(1/5) 💔 A marriage cracks open. A child begs his parents not to divorce. Instead of responding with her own words, the mother turns to AI. What was once a fight between two people becomes a three-way argument with a machine. 🔗 futurism.com/chatgpt-marr... @futurism.com @mharrisondupre.bsky.social

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ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

(1/5) Language has organs you cannot see. Berlinski & Uriagereka show how “case” is bone under skin, giving sentences shape even when the marks are gone. Reading it felt like finding the frame beneath breath. 🔗 inference-review.com/article/the-...

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The Recovery of Case | David Berlinski & Juan Uriagereka | Inference

Jean-Roger Vergnaud’s famous 1977 letter to Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik assumed that case is obligatory. As Juan Uriagereka and David Berlinski argue, Vergnaud’s case filter was a vindication of th...

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

(1/5) 🌌 Cyril Connolly once wrote to soothe a young woman afraid of death. He said: death is either survival or extinction. If survival, it is spirit. If extinction, it is nothingness, no more to fear than deep sleep. Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/archive-cyri... @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social

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Archive | Cyril Connolly's Cure for the Fear of Death - The London Magazine

Cyril Connolly's notes on a cure for the fear of death were written in 1949 for a girl who had expressed a fear of dying to the author.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

(1/5) 🎭🔎 “Speak weirdness to truth.” When the compass spins, that is the doorway. Rao’s essay names the aporia where thinking and feeling both glitch, inviting a fuller reboot of mind and heart. Read here: www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/09/22/s... @vgr.bsky.social

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

(1/5) 🌀 Moral progress is often imagined as widening circles of empathy — once only kings, then citizens, then all humanity. Today, philosophers ask: should that circle stretch into the far future, to people not yet born? 🔗 mappingignorance.org/2025/09/22/t... @mappingignorance.org

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The brief life of longtermism (1) - Mapping Ignorance

Longtermism proposes that the lives of people who may exist hundreds of years from now have the same value as present ones

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

(1/5) 🌍 The body as mediator Merleau-Ponty reminds us that we do not just “have” bodies. We are lived bodies — breathing, pulsing, perceiving. In an age of screens, this wisdom is more urgent than ever. 🔗 aeon.co/essays/the-p... @dannixon.bsky.social @aeon.co

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

(1/5) 🕊️ Behind prison walls in Ohio, cages hold not only robins, jays, and opossums — but also the fragile possibility of redemption. Inmates are finding meaning by caring for orphaned wildlife. A story of healing across species: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu... @smithsonianmag.bsky.social

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In Prisons Across Ohio, These Inmates Are Finding Meaning by Saving Orphaned and Injured Animals

The Ohio Wildlife Center’s hospital sends critters to five facilities for care before eventual release

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

(1/5) 🧠 Consciousness goes deeper than attention. It may not arise at five months or five years. It may have been there all along, woven into every breath and sensation. Article link: www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observa... @bernardokastrup.bsky.social @sciam.bsky.social

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Consciousness Goes Deeper Than You Think

Awareness can be part of it, but it’s much more than that

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

(1/5) 📦➡️📉 When boxes slow, stories surface. Odd Lots asks why US box shipments hit lows since 2015 and what that says about the body of the economy. I hear a pulse check. Link: www.listennotes.com/podcasts/odd...

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The Cardboard Boxpocalypse and the State of the US Economy

00:43:32 - Almost everything we buy nowadays has been in a box at some point. Goods are shipped in boxes. Products ordered online arrive at our doorstep in box…

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

(1/5) 🚶‍♂️ The world whispers: optimize everything But Sean Voisen asks—what if some things are sacred? His essay explores how tracking can quietly strip joy from life’s rituals. A must-read for anyone caught in the self-improvement storm. 🔗 seanvoisen.com/blog/the-imp... @seanvoisen.com

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The imp of optimization

A meditation on what we lose when we excessively measure our lives.

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

(1/5) 🧠 Are we living in a stupidogenic society? This essay explores how tech offloads have atrophied our “mental muscles” and reversed a century of rising IQs. A must-read on what we gain and lose when machines do our thinking: 🔗 substack.nomoremarking.com/p/are-we-liv... @daisychristo.bsky.social

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Are we living in a stupidogenic society?

The cognitive muscles we no longer exercise

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

(1/5) 🧠 We swim in an ocean of “truths” yet drink only from pools that soothe. Aurelien’s essay maps the strange marketplace where truth is no longer sought, only bought to confirm what we feel. 🔗 aurelien2022.substack.com/p/the-truth-... What if seeking truth meant risking who we think we are?

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The Truth Market.

The Scum also rises.

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

(1/5) 🧬 The Rise of the Gentle Ape www.spiegel.de/internationa... Anthropologist Richard Wrangham suggests our humanity emerged when beta males conspired to kill the tyrants. Out of whispered rebellion came rules, morality, and the first flickers of peace. @spiegel.de

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Interview with Anthropologist Richard Wrangham

British anthropologist Richard Wrangham believes our humanity began with the murder of a tyrant. In an interview with DER SPIEGEL, he explains why homo sapiens are so murderous, while also being among...

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

(1/5) ⚡ Magical Systems Thinking We dream of taming chaos with elegant diagrams, but systems are not tame. They kick back. They resist. Ed Bradon shows how plans falter and why the path forward might start smaller than imagined. 🌐 Read: worksinprogress.co/issue/magica... @worksinprogress.bsky.social

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Magical systems thinking - Works in Progress Magazine

Systems thinking promises to give us a toolkit to design complex systems that work from the ground up. It fails because it ignores that systems fight back.

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

(1/5) 🧳 Why do we collect things? This beautiful essay traces our ancient impulse to gather what matters—from Noah’s ark to Nabokov’s butterflies. Objects become time vessels, holding memory, meaning, and identity. 📖 Read here: cazadora.substack.com/p/why-do-we-...

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Why do we collect things?

Desire, nostalgia, loss, and completeness in the personal collections of Joseph Cornell, Peter Blake, and Vladimir Nabokov

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

(1/5) 📘 What is “the West,” really? The West: The History of an Idea shows it is far newer—and stranger—than we think. Born in the 1820s through Auguste Comte, it began as a vision of altruism, not empire. 🔗 mereorthodoxy.com/the-idea-of-... @mereorthodoxy.bsky.social

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The Idea of the West

Varouxakis's 'The West: The History of an Idea' takes its readers through many surprising turns in documenting the history of 'the west.'

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

(1/5) 🔗 The dream of a “Theory of Everything” has haunted physics for a century. A single equation for all of reality. But what if the dream itself is flawed? What if wholeness resists reduction? Read: bigthink.com/starts-with-... @startswithabang.bsky.social @bigthink.com

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The argument against the existence of a Theory of Everything

The Holy Grail of physics is a Theory of Everything: where a single equation describes the whole Universe. But maybe there simply isn't one?

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

(1/5) 📖 Hilde Østby’s So Lonely asks: why, in a world buzzing with connection, do so many still feel abandoned? Loneliness is declared an epidemic, yet its roots run deeper than empty rooms. 👉 insidestory.org.au/all-the-lone... @insidestory.bsky.social

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All the lonely people • Nick Haslam

A Nordic writer foregrounds the social and political causes of loneliness

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

(1/5) 📚 Austria: once the fulcrum of empires, now a republic with echoes of Habsburg courts & café philosophers. Nicholas Parsons traces the books that reveal its power, fragility, & enduring spirit. 👉 fivebooks.com/best-books/a... #Austria #History #Books @fivebooks.com

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

(1/5) 🎖️ Tom Hanks, long a storyteller of war & advocate for veterans, was set to receive West Point’s Sylvanus Thayer Award. The honor remains, but parade & ceremony canceled. What does it mean when recognition is given quietly, without gathering or witness? 🔗 www.npr.org/2025/09/06/n... @npr.org

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West Point alumni group scraps prestigious award celebrations honoring Tom Hanks

The 69-year-old actor and veterans' advocate had been scheduled to receive the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer award at an official ceremony and parade on Sept. 25.

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

1/5 📖 Arundhati Roy’s new memoir begins with grief, but it unfolds into something larger: survival in a culture of fear. Her story reminds us that the personal and political are woven together like threads in the same fragile cloth. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/m... @lulugn.bsky.social @nytimes.com

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Arundhati Roy on How to Survive in a ‘Culture of Fear’

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

(1/5) 🌊⛯ A lighthouse at Cape Hatteras once stood against the “graveyard of the Atlantic.” Built in 1799, it lit the way for ships through shifting sands and unseen danger. We too are called to be beacons—lighting paths others cannot see. Read: doctrixperiwinkle.substack.com/p/this-littl...

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This little light of mine

Shipwrecks, hymns, and the faith to help those we cannot see

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

(1/5) ☕️📉 The corporate job is dying — not with a crash, but with a sigh. Workers in glass towers admit their days dissolve into meetings about meetings, PowerPoints unread, and strategies for strategies. Read here: thestillwandering.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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The death of the corporate job.

Last week, I had coffee with someone who works at a big consulting firm.

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

(1/5) 🎨🌌 From ochre caves to ultramarine skies, Stephanie Krzywonos reminds us: colors are not surface—they are story, blood, memory. To see pigment is to glimpse the history of human longing and grief. 🕯️ Read: emergencemagazine.org/essay/museum... @stephkrzywonos.bsky.social

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Museum of Color – Stephanie Kryzwonos

From ochre to lapis lazuli, Stephanie Krzywonos opens a door into the entangled histories of our most iconic pigments, revealing how colors hold stories of both lightness and darkness.

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

(1/5) 🌊🧠 How did intelligence emerge from sea to mind? Bennett’s A Brief History of Intelligence traces 5 breakthroughs: steering, reinforcing, simulating, mentalizing, language. From nematodes to humans, each step shows how brains became bridges of survival and meaning. 🔗 scyy.fi/shelf/histor...

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Notes: A Brief History of Intelligence (Bennett)

A big picture book about how intelligence is implemented, synthesizing AI breakthroughs and preexisting research in neuroscience.

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

(1/5) 🎭🌊 In Vienna after WWI, J.L. Moreno watched children act out myths and stories. From their play, he saw a truth: we heal not only by talking but by showing, moving, embodying. Thus was born psychodrama, a stage for self-discovery. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/1974/05/16/a... #Bluesky #Grief #Hope #We

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

(1/5) 🍲🌍 Jim Haynes believed strangers should never stay strangers. For 40+ years in Paris, his Sunday dinners welcomed anyone who walked through the door. A man who connected the world not through algorithms, but soup pots and conversation. 🔗 getpocket.com/explore/item...

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Jim Haynes: A Man Who Invited the World Over for Dinner

Jim Haynes was both an icon and a relic of the Swinging Sixties, an American in Paris who invited thousands of strangers to dinner at his home.

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

(1/5) 🌻🏡🐕 Eleven women. Nine dogs. One dream. The Bird’s Nest in Texas is no retirement cliché. It is a living experiment: can chosen family outlast isolation, illness, and the slow fading of time? 📰 Read the full story: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w... @nytimes.com

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11 Women, 9 Dogs, Not Much Drama (and No Guys)

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

(1/5) 🧗‍♂️📚 Michelle Cyca writes about “obstacle parenting”—letting kids face challenges instead of smoothing every path. In an age of screens and shortcuts, this feels radical. History reminds us: growth has always come through friction. 👉 thewalrus.ca/my-job-as-a-... @michellecyca.com @thewalrus.ca

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My Job as a Parent Is to Make My Kids’ Lives a Little Harder | The Walrus

Obstacle parenting is about cultivating focus and endurance, two skills lost in the ChatGPT era

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

(1/5) 🌊💙 Blue is the hardest common color to make. From indigo fields to crushed lapis, from Egyptian kilns to Japanese woodblocks, we have always chased it. It is not just a pigment but a mirror of longing—why science fiction still casts the future in blue light. www.hopefulmons.com/p/the-color-...

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The Color of the Future

A history of blue 🦋

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

(1/5) 🌳 Beneath every forest lies an invisible network older than civilization. The Wood Wide Web—a vast underground system of roots and fungi—connects trees into a living community. 👉 Read more: www.newstatesman.com/science-tech... @newstatesman.com

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The Wood Wide Web: the world of trees underneath the surface

Mycorrhizal networks, better known as the Wood Wide Web, have allowed scientists to understand the social networks formed by trees underground.

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

(1/5) 🧠 Does self-awareness require a brain? A man with most of his cortex destroyed still recognized himself in the mirror. Children born without a cortex still laugh, cry, and know familiar faces. Consciousness may be more universal than we imagined. 🔗 www.scientificamerican.com/blog/brainwa...

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Does Self-Awareness Require a Complex Brain?

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

(1/5) ⚔️🧠 WWII did not just scar bodies. It shattered minds. By 1945, 10,000 veterans a month returned with psychoneurotic disorders. With too few psychiatrists, group therapy became a lifeline. Out of necessity, the seeds of psychodrama and sociometry were planted.

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