You’re simply not that big a deal: now isn’t that a relief?
Maybe the most compassionate attitude you can take toward yourself is to stop obsessing over yourself. Manly Beach (1895) by Arthur Streeton. Courtesy Bendigo Art Gallery/Wikipedia There is a meme that speaks directly to the hearts and minds of the overly self-conscious. [...]
Touched
We ride a stream of naked neurons, stripped of their sheaths, to the most blissful moments and deepest intimacies of life
‘Free speech’ is a blunt instrument. Let’s break it up
Should we maybe put free ‘speech’ as such to one side, and replace it with a series of more narrowly targeted expressive liberties? Madonna at The Women's March in Washington Free speech is important. It guards against governments’ dangerous tendency [...]
Dishonesty gets easier on the brain the more you do it
If we engage in lying over and over again, does our emotional response to this adapt?
Japan’s gender-bending history
In the long span of Japanese cultural history, there have been many things that were – and are – new under the sun. But genderless males aren’t among them. Genking, a male-born Japanese TV personality and ‘genderless’ pioneer | _genking_/Instagram [...]
At Erdem, A Family Tree in Fabric
Erdem’s collection possessed a tension as delicious as that found in any thriller set in the famously mysterious city. Erdem, FW17 Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, the city where West meets East, has long been a word that is shorthand for [...]
Mathematics is beautiful (no, really)
I cannot find a piece of mathematics beautiful unless I first understand it properly – and that means it can take a while for me to appreciate the aesthetic qualities. Fractals in stone by Jami Masjid | source: Ankush.sabharwal wikipedia, CC BY-SA [...]