“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
— Helen Keller

“I don't have the perfect roadmap drawn out, but I do know which roads I'll never drive down again.”

― Brittany Burgunder

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free
— Jerry Pournelle, who Died in 2017

How the super-rich stay safe today

Joe Shute, via The Telegraph

The latest whiz-bang invention from MIT’s Media Lab: a computer that can grow any food. Is this Theranos for plants?... Theranos Tense

Cybersecurity, tracking devices, and female bodyguards.

Royal Mint releases new batch of 50 cent coins with a secret mission

The Australian Royal Mint releases coins with an encrypted message, written in a code inspired by the Cold War events that led to the establishment of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation 70 years ago.

Outside – A new meta-study, which followed 267,000 people, sheds a few answers – “For exercise enthusiasts and those who study the mind-body connection—or perhaps better put, the mind-body system—it has long been known that physical activity helps with depression. And yet even as evidence for this effect continues to mount, “the incorporation of exercise as a key component in the treatment of depression is inconsistent,” write Felipe Barreto Schuch and Brendon Stubbs in the most recent issue of Current Sports Medicine Reports. Schuch and Stubbs, researchers at the University of Santa Maria in Brazil and King’s College in London, respectively, go on to explain that exercise ought to be more seriously considered and prescribed in treatment protocols, in the same way that talk therapy and medication, the two most common responses to depression, are. To support this recommendation, Schuch and Stubbs recently undertook a comprehensive review of exercise and depression

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Drinking coffee linked to lower risk of gallstones.

Reading as therapy. Told to rest, a critic discovers that a personal, patient approach to literature can yield Unexpected Insight

Oliver Sacks was the most story-driven clinical writer of the age. He also had a curious relationship with facts. “I don’t tell lies, though I may invent the truth”.

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Why Do The Same Images Show Up On Book After Book?

The book cover design world, it turns out, has something of an all-star squad of stock and archival image that show up on book covers time and time again. James Morrison, an editor, designer, and avid reader who lives in Adelaide, Australia, has been tracking the squad for about two decades. – Eye On Design

Lucian Freud, pickup artist. So relentless was his pursuit of women — and their pursuit of him — that it's a marvel he found time to paint... womaniser who was inafraid