Sunday, May 01, 2022

You Don’t Have To Forget Your Troubles To Get Happy - Swearing at work


Pink Floyd has released their first new song in 28 years to help support Ukraine.  openculture.com

European studies shed light on long COVID risk and recovery Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy

You Don’t Have To Forget Your Troubles To Get Happy

If people want to be happier, there are research-backed ways to do it - including "Search for transcendent truths beyond your narrow day-to-day life," and "Be active mentally," which both sound like great motivations to make, and experience, art. - The Atlantic


“A Political Switzerland”: Is The New York Times Book Review’s “Books As News” Approach Still Tenable?

With Bookstagrammers and BookTokers nearly equal in influence, and with its carefully maintained approach of relative objectivity, "the Book Review may have the luxury of being the only game in town, but that doesn't spare it the responsibility of making sure people show up to play." - The Nation



BookTok Is Driving A Rise In Book Purchasing At Stores And Shops Across The World

Sales rose 5% in the UK, for instance. BookTokkers, aka TikTok users, are "replicating the time-honoured sales method that bookshop staff have often employed – suggesting books to shoppers that they might like. And that’s one area that the pandemic hit hard." - The Guardian (UK)


What Happens When Big Corporations Take Over Local Newspapers? A New Study Says —

— that there's "an immediate drop in content." The drop isn't exactly a surprise, but what one lead researcher found "shocking" was that the fall, and the staffing cuts that lead to it, happen so quickly after acquisition. - Nieman Lab


The questions I’m asked most often on Instagram are “where should I go in New York” and “do you have a guide”. People haven’t been to the city in years due to the pandemic so they are planning trips and want to know where to stay and most often, where to eat. I don’t have time right now to put everything in a blog post but I did make a Google Map, Habitually Chic Guide to NYC.


Windfall behinds Outfit


The Secular Case For Christianity: It Works For The Individual And For The Common Good



For a century, The New York Times Book Review has basically adhered to the same formula. Does it still work?  NY Times 


How five Cambridge University scholars triggered a revolution in the way we think and talk about books Cambridge  


Ken Burns’s Benjamin Franklin illustrates everything that is wrong with how most white Americans think about their nation’s  founding  


A Pennsylvania school district has voted against a parent’s request to launch a satanic group’s After School Satan Club at an elementary school for students who want to participate in an extracurricular program that is non-religious.

A devil may care attitude?




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