It is a little embarrassing that after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”
— Aldous Huxley born on 26 July 1894
What stops people from being kinder?
The Dying Art of Friendship
We know that being stressed affects the way we treat others — especially, adversely. But a new study, published in The Journal of Neuroscience this month, explores the brain processes that drive even the most empathetic of people to be more selfish and less kind when they’re stressed.
NOT MAKING AN EXCUSE Why Stress Makes the Most Empathetic People Less Kind
Apple TV+ has been killing it lately, winning multiple Emmys for “Ted Lasso” and multiple Oscars for “CODA,” while also launching some of the best recent dramas, including “Severance,” “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,” and “WeCrashed.” To this list of impressive original programming, we can add “Slow Horses,” one of the best spy shows in years, a smart, witty, cleverly plotted piece about a group of outcasts in the world of espionage who end up being essential to a headline-grabbing operation that’s unfolding behind the scenes in a very different way from what the public is seeing on the news every night. The natural comparison will be “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” but this Gary Oldman vehicle isn’t as calculated, feeling as much like executive producer Graham Yost’s “Justified” in how that program relied on sharp dialogue and characters who felt instantly three-dimensional to work. It’s one of the best shows of early 2022.
Slow Horses Series Premiere Review - "Failure's Contagious" and "Work Drinks"
OF COURSE, MAYBE WOMEN DESTINED FOR COGNITIVE DECLINE HAVE WEAKER IMMUNE SYSTEMS: Use of antibiotics by women in midlife linked to later cognitive decline
The Collected Photography of Roger Deakins
Nanoparticle-based COVID-19 vaccine could target future infectious diseases.
