Human sense of smell may be quicker than you think

20 years from now, you'd give

anything to be:

This exact age,

Exactly this healthy,

and back in this exact moment.

Now take a second to enjoy it Now.

~ Rich Webster

 Whisky is like people. Each expression has a personality shaped and moulded by its unique journey through the world. Growing in complexity with every passing year, it absorbs elements from its surroundings at every stage of development, meaning that by the time it reaches your lips, whisky tells a story entirely its own. 

This heavenly liquid’s ability to reflect its place of origin and the process through which it became fully formed is harnessed by makers to find new and exciting variations that expand whisky’s metaphorical colour palette. No one is more devoted to this end and to the deft art of whisky finishing than Glen Moray, an innovative distillery located in Scotland’s Speyside region, crafting some of the most intriguing whiskies you’re likely to encounter. 

SCIENCE:  Human sense of smell may be quicker than you think

Clare E. Robertson, Kareena S. del Rosario, Jay J. Van Bavel, Inside the funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions of norms, Current Opinion in Psychology, Volume 60, 2024, 101918, ISSN 2352-250X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101918.  “The current paper explains how modern technology interacts with human psychology to create a funhouse mirror version of social norms. 

We argue that norms generated on social media often tend to be more extreme than offline norms which can create false perceptions of norms–known as pluralistic ignorance. 

We integrate research from political science, psychology, and cognitive science to explain how online environments become saturated with false norms, who is misrepresented online, what happens when online norms deviate from offline norms, where people are affected online, and why expressions are more extreme online. 

We provide a framework for understanding and correcting for the distortions in our perceptions of social norms that are created by social media platforms. 

We argue the funhouse mirror nature of social media can be pernicious for individuals and society by increasing pluralistic ignorance and false polarization.”

Thank You

BY ROSS GAY

If you find yourself half naked

and barefoot in the frosty grass, hearing,

again, the earth's great, sonorous moan that says

you are the air of the now and gone, that says

all you love will turn to dust,

and will meet you there, do not

raise your fist. Do not raise

your small voice against it. And do not

take cover. Instead, curl your toes

into the grass, watch the cloud

ascending from your lips. Walk

through the garden's dormant splendor.

Say only, thank you.

Thank you.