(1/5) 🌀 Moral progress is often imagined as widening circles of empathy — once only kings, then citizens, then all humanity. Today, philosophers ask: should that circle stretch into the far future, to people not yet born? 🔗 mappingignorance.org/2025/09/22/t... @mappingignorance.org

(1/5) 🌍 The body as mediator Merleau-Ponty reminds us that we do not just “have” bodies. We are lived bodies — breathing, pulsing, perceiving. In an age of screens, this wisdom is more urgent than ever. 🔗 aeon.co/essays/the-p... @dannixon.bsky.social @aeon.co

(1/5) 🕊️ Behind prison walls in Ohio, cages hold not only robins, jays, and opossums — but also the fragile possibility of redemption. Inmates are finding meaning by caring for orphaned wildlife. A story of healing across species: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu... @smithsonianmag.bsky.social

(1/5) 🧠 Consciousness goes deeper than attention. It may not arise at five months or five years. It may have been there all along, woven into every breath and sensation. Article link: www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observa... @bernardokastrup.bsky.social @sciam.bsky.social

(1/5) 📦➡️📉 When boxes slow, stories surface. Odd Lots asks why US box shipments hit lows since 2015 and what that says about the body of the economy. I hear a pulse check. Link: www.listennotes.com/podcasts/odd...

(1/5) 🚶‍♂️ The world whispers: optimize everything But Sean Voisen asks—what if some things are sacred? His essay explores how tracking can quietly strip joy from life’s rituals. A must-read for anyone caught in the self-improvement storm. 🔗 seanvoisen.com/blog/the-imp... @seanvoisen.com

(1/5) 🧠 Are we living in a stupidogenic society? This essay explores how tech offloads have atrophied our “mental muscles” and reversed a century of rising IQs. A must-read on what we gain and lose when machines do our thinking: 🔗 substack.nomoremarking.com/p/are-we-liv... @daisychristo.bsky.social

(1/5) 🧠 We swim in an ocean of “truths” yet drink only from pools that soothe. Aurelien’s essay maps the strange marketplace where truth is no longer sought, only bought to confirm what we feel. 🔗 aurelien2022.substack.com/p/the-truth-... What if seeking truth meant risking who we think we are?

(1/5) 🧬 The Rise of the Gentle Ape www.spiegel.de/internationa... Anthropologist Richard Wrangham suggests our humanity emerged when beta males conspired to kill the tyrants. Out of whispered rebellion came rules, morality, and the first flickers of peace. @spiegel.de

(1/5) ⚡ Magical Systems Thinking We dream of taming chaos with elegant diagrams, but systems are not tame. They kick back. They resist. Ed Bradon shows how plans falter and why the path forward might start smaller than imagined. 🌐 Read: worksinprogress.co/issue/magica... @worksinprogress.bsky.social

(1/5) 🧳 Why do we collect things? This beautiful essay traces our ancient impulse to gather what matters—from Noah’s ark to Nabokov’s butterflies. Objects become time vessels, holding memory, meaning, and identity. 📖 Read here: cazadora.substack.com/p/why-do-we-...

(1/5) 📘 What is “the West,” really? The West: The History of an Idea shows it is far newer—and stranger—than we think. Born in the 1820s through Auguste Comte, it began as a vision of altruism, not empire. 🔗 mereorthodoxy.com/the-idea-of-... @mereorthodoxy.bsky.social

(1/5) 🔗 The dream of a “Theory of Everything” has haunted physics for a century. A single equation for all of reality. But what if the dream itself is flawed? What if wholeness resists reduction? Read: bigthink.com/starts-with-... @startswithabang.bsky.social @bigthink.com

(1/5) 📖 Hilde Østby’s So Lonely asks: why, in a world buzzing with connection, do so many still feel abandoned? Loneliness is declared an epidemic, yet its roots run deeper than empty rooms. 👉 insidestory.org.au/all-the-lone... @insidestory.bsky.social

(1/5) 📚 Austria: once the fulcrum of empires, now a republic with echoes of Habsburg courts & café philosophers. Nicholas Parsons traces the books that reveal its power, fragility, & enduring spirit. 👉 fivebooks.com/best-books/a... #Austria #History #Books @fivebooks.com

(1/5) 🎖️ Tom Hanks, long a storyteller of war & advocate for veterans, was set to receive West Point’s Sylvanus Thayer Award. The honor remains, but parade & ceremony canceled. What does it mean when recognition is given quietly, without gathering or witness? 🔗 www.npr.org/2025/09/06/n... @npr.org

1/5 📖 Arundhati Roy’s new memoir begins with grief, but it unfolds into something larger: survival in a culture of fear. Her story reminds us that the personal and political are woven together like threads in the same fragile cloth. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/m... @lulugn.bsky.social @nytimes.com

(1/5) 🌊⛯ A lighthouse at Cape Hatteras once stood against the “graveyard of the Atlantic.” Built in 1799, it lit the way for ships through shifting sands and unseen danger. We too are called to be beacons—lighting paths others cannot see. Read: doctrixperiwinkle.substack.com/p/this-littl...

(1/5) ☕️📉 The corporate job is dying — not with a crash, but with a sigh. Workers in glass towers admit their days dissolve into meetings about meetings, PowerPoints unread, and strategies for strategies. Read here: thestillwandering.substack.com/p/the-death-...

(1/5) 🎨🌌 From ochre caves to ultramarine skies, Stephanie Krzywonos reminds us: colors are not surface—they are story, blood, memory. To see pigment is to glimpse the history of human longing and grief. 🕯️ Read: emergencemagazine.org/essay/museum... @stephkrzywonos.bsky.social

(1/5) 🌊🧠 How did intelligence emerge from sea to mind? Bennett’s A Brief History of Intelligence traces 5 breakthroughs: steering, reinforcing, simulating, mentalizing, language. From nematodes to humans, each step shows how brains became bridges of survival and meaning. 🔗 scyy.fi/shelf/histor...

(1/5) 🎭🌊 In Vienna after WWI, J.L. Moreno watched children act out myths and stories. From their play, he saw a truth: we heal not only by talking but by showing, moving, embodying. Thus was born psychodrama, a stage for self-discovery. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/1974/05/16/a... #Bluesky #Grief #Hope #We

(1/5) 🍲🌍 Jim Haynes believed strangers should never stay strangers. For 40+ years in Paris, his Sunday dinners welcomed anyone who walked through the door. A man who connected the world not through algorithms, but soup pots and conversation. 🔗 getpocket.com/explore/item...

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(1/5) 🌻🏡🐕 Eleven women. Nine dogs. One dream. The Bird’s Nest in Texas is no retirement cliché. It is a living experiment: can chosen family outlast isolation, illness, and the slow fading of time? 📰 Read the full story: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w... @nytimes.com

(1/5) 🧗‍♂️📚 Michelle Cyca writes about “obstacle parenting”—letting kids face challenges instead of smoothing every path. In an age of screens and shortcuts, this feels radical. History reminds us: growth has always come through friction. 👉 thewalrus.ca/my-job-as-a-... @michellecyca.com @thewalrus.ca

(1/5) 🌊💙 Blue is the hardest common color to make. From indigo fields to crushed lapis, from Egyptian kilns to Japanese woodblocks, we have always chased it. It is not just a pigment but a mirror of longing—why science fiction still casts the future in blue light. www.hopefulmons.com/p/the-color-...

(1/5) 🌳 Beneath every forest lies an invisible network older than civilization. The Wood Wide Web—a vast underground system of roots and fungi—connects trees into a living community. 👉 Read more: www.newstatesman.com/science-tech... @newstatesman.com

(1/5) 🧠 Does self-awareness require a brain? A man with most of his cortex destroyed still recognized himself in the mirror. Children born without a cortex still laugh, cry, and know familiar faces. Consciousness may be more universal than we imagined. 🔗 www.scientificamerican.com/blog/brainwa...

(1/5) ⚔️🧠 WWII did not just scar bodies. It shattered minds. By 1945, 10,000 veterans a month returned with psychoneurotic disorders. With too few psychiatrists, group therapy became a lifeline. Out of necessity, the seeds of psychodrama and sociometry were planted.

(1/5) Once, eccentric patrons funded wild dreams — radar in a mansion, secret codes in Shakespeare, scrolls from Vesuvius. Today, philanthropy feels safe and bureaucratic. What if wild giving could revive science, health and imagination? 🔗 www.palladiummag.com/2025/08/22/t... @stuartbuck.bsky.social

(1/5) 🔑 What happens when philosophy enters prison walls? In a room where “Insiders” and “Outsiders” sit together, Plato’s cave is not just a metaphor but a lived reality. Shadows, lies, and light are debated with raw honesty. Read the full essay here: aeon.co/essays/philo... @aeon.co

(1/5) 🧠✨ On the eve of brain surgery, Eric Markowitz discovered a consciousness beyond thought—presence itself. What he found is a reminder that life is fragile, absurd, and luminous all at once. Read here: bigthink.com/business/bra...

(1/5) 🧸 Childcare is collapsing. Centers across the U.S. are closing as subsidies end, workers burn out, and families face choices. TIME reports a crisis reshaping. 🔗 time.com/7309693/dayc... When care is unaffordable, parents—most often mothers—carry the weight, and our fabric frays. @time.com

(1/5) ☎️ In the desert at Burning Man, a dusty phone booth waits. Pick it up and you hear, “Hello, this is God.” What begins as a game quickly becomes a mirror: joy, grief, despair, and hope all dial in. Leora Smith’s The God Phone: 🔗 longreads.com/2020/01/14/t... @longreads.com

(1/5) 🔧 Machines need perfection. Life thrives on imperfection. Kasra’s Bits of Wonder reminds us: cells, neurons, and proteins are unreliable, yet they create a reliable whole. A heart beats 3 billion times not because it is flawless, but because it adapts. 🌐 www.bitsofwonder.co/p/unreliable...

(1/5) 🐒✨ Chimpanzees learn to speak with rhythm, gesture, and sound — not from their fathers, but from their mothers. NPR reports how young chimps model their style of communication after mom, a finding that echoes deep into human history. 🔗 www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n... @npr.org

(1/5) To grasp advanced mathematics is to walk through a dark mansion, bumping into furniture until—after months—you find the switch. Suddenly, the room glows, and you see how everything connects. Then you move on to the next room, ready to stumble again. 🔗 www.quora.com/What-is-it-l...

(1/5) 🧠 Are electrons conscious? Philosopher Philip Goff says neuroscience has chased the brain-first story for a century — but maybe we should start with consciousness itself, then build our picture of the brain around the inner world we know. 🔗 blog.oup.com/2017/08/elec... @philipgoff.bsky.social

(1/5) 🎮 In The Sims, time folds. Love, loss, and entire generations live inside a few hours. We tend a garden, write a bestseller, bury a chick named Goats. Grim Reaper with a tablet, here for one life but taking another. 🔗 www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/08... @parisreview.bsky.social

(1/5) 🌱 Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW built a bridge between ancient wisdom and modern science. Her Community Resiliency Model (CRM) teaches us to return to the body, moment by moment. From somatic traditions to polyvagal theory, this is nervous system literacy for all. 🔗 www.traumaresourceinstitute.com

(1/5) 🤖 Harvey Lederman asks: What if AI doesn’t destroy us—just does everything better? From polar explorers to master mathematicians, he traces our drive for discovery and purpose. If machines take that work, what’s left for us? 🔗 scottaaronson.blog?p=9030&ref=t... @harveylederman.bsky.social

(1/5) 🪨 What holds us together? From Berkeley in 1712 to Hamilton in 1787 to Davies in 1811, thinkers searched for the cement of society. Some said law, others charity, love, trust, even small talk. A map of human nature — and a mirror for our times. 🔗 branemrys.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-...

The CDC’s youth risk page now says “gender ideology is… disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes” and calls transition care “chemical and surgical mutilation.” Politics that put youth at greater suicide risk. www.cdc.gov/yrbs/ #SuicidePrevention #PublicHealth

(1/5) 🪞 We live in the Age of the Dupe. From skorts to sofas, perfumes to neighborhoods — imitation now outruns invention. When all can be copied, what becomes of creativity, justice, and meaning? 🔗 www.theverge.com/cs/features/... 🔗 archive.is/ZuA6k#select... @miasato.bsky.social @theverge.com

🎭 Tomorrow — Virtual Catharsis Theater A safe space to share, witness, and release grief — through stories, connection, and presence. 🗓 Sat, Aug 9 | 1–2:45 PM PT | Online 21+ | All grief welcome. 🎟 www.eventbrite.com/e/catharsis-... #Grief #Healing #Loss #Hope #Connection #Bluesky #Love

(1/5) 🪞 Death masks once held the faces of kings, warriors, poets — keeping them close after breath had gone. Today, sculptor Nick Reynolds still casts them, even the goosebumps of the newly dead. A strange meeting of art, mourning and memory. 🔗 lithub.com/how-death-ma... @hayleycampbell.bsky.social

(1/5) 🎰 The modern casino isn’t just in Vegas. It’s in your pocket. 6 hours of daily content, 205 phone checks, 17 screens per home. We’re overstimulated and underwhelmed. Our crisis isn’t boredom. It’s the loss of the ability to be bored. 🔗 lynch39.substack.com/p/bored

(1/5) 🎣 What if laughter is fishing? Not invented—discovered, like a hidden current in the psyche. Hormeze writes: teach a man to fish for humor, and he’ll laugh for life. Even in Auschwitz, the spark of comedy flickered. 🔗 hormeze.substack.com/p/whats-this... #Bluesky @hormeze.bsky.social

(1/5) 🔥🗺️ California is burning again. The Gifford Fire has consumed over 65,000 acres, closed highways, and injured civilians. And this may only be the beginning. 📍@sfgate.com: www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti... How do we grieve what’s still burning? How do we respond when the land cries out?