This is good news - a new Broken Sword game is coming.
Two of my former students have been added to Russia’s journalist blacklist.
I’m very proud.
Starting my assault on the Wainwright Prize shortlist with A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors 📚
It’s almost delightful that Trump’s Twitter addiction might be the cause of his eventual downfall.
One unexpected surprise in upgrading from a 2006 car to a 2020 car: it got two software updates when I took it in for annual service…
Cars get software updates now?
Hmm. Should I rename the “Twitter” category on One Man & His Blog to “X”? 🤔
Most publications needed a Twitter strategy. But is making an X strategy a good use of time anymore?
Well, it depends…
Why people are pulling up their fake lawns.
Good.
Why selfish co-workers stick together:
a Cognitive Science paper published Monday by psychologists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, […] found people who are selfish by nature tend to punish generosity and reward selfishness even when it costs them personally.
Fascinating how strong social affinity is.
Stanford neuroscientist demonstrates the quickest way to eliminate stress:
“The physiological sigh is the fastest hardwired way for us to eliminate a stressful response in our body quickly in real time,” says Andrew Huberman, an associate professor of neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Gonna keep this in reserve for the autumn.
“Solastalgia is a neologism that is becoming commonplace. It describes a feeling of homesickness while still being at home. It is a sense of loss, but also a feeling of confusion: the planet that we think we live on no longer exists. In a warming world, words become unmoored from their meanings.”
— The Treeline by Ben Rawlence 📚
