What we feel when the algorithm chooses the soundtrack.

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Not everything can be awful, right? Not everything can be the worst. Anyway, I have just decided that I refuse to let everything be the worst and to succumb to the idea that no, it is, in fact, the worst. I feel a bit guilty about trying to grasp joy, but what choice does any […]

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One of the things I find difficult and, at times, frustrating to deal with, perhaps particularly as a person with an autistic spectrum condition, is properly conveying the emotions that I am feeling and the depth of those emotions. Our recent anguish over Oliver's disappearance is a prime example of this. I am feeling intense...

Words that are untranslatable, but everyone understands.

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Entrepreneur and author Mo Gawdat has spent over 20 years researching the science of happiness.

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Oh no… this is not what I expected to feel today! We chose to live here for a reason. Not for convenience, not for perfect roads or quick access to everything—but for the quiet. For the space. For the feeling that nature is allowed to just be. All around us, there have only been natural … More When the Field Across the Road Began to Change

NEW YORK — Local therapist Dr. Lauren Mitchell reassured her patient Monday that it is completely normal for a loser like him... Read more nonsense

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"Shoes are put away immediately upon walking in the house."

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I was chatting with my friend about video games as aesthetic experience* and they made the point that tedium is used as negative space in gameplay (for example, forcing the player to walk over to another NPC instead of porting there). In writing, the on-page density of sentences and paragraphs creates visual white space… but […]

Pro tip for all of them: Write by hand.

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In this short ekphrastic piece, Ondogan illustrates the emotions of Edvard Munch's painting "Separation."

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en] Do you know the line? “All my good intentions don’t add up to very much…” It’s been coming and going in my mind since 1997, probably. There is a mismatch between intentions and actions. Always has been. Always will be. The world is too small for our intentions. They’re always struggling to get out … [Continue reading "All My Good Intentions [en]"

Stanford researchers investigated which types of climate messaging are most effective in motivating people to take collective action, finding that focusing on past successes ranks the highest.

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There are times to speak up, moments when it’s best to say nothing, and opportunities be very considerate in your response. But when you’re on the receiving end of a back-handed compliment, a foolish remark, or a coworker takes you down a peg, and your emotions are up, it can be hard to have a thoughtful response. Often, we say something we shouldn’t.

How is it that some folks fly off the…