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Hello friends, and welcome/welcome back to my little knothole on these here internets. A couple of weeks ago I wrote here about being on the
Oh yeah, I put up a roundup of what I read in January which turned into a bunch of mini book reviews (got a little maxi towards the end). It’s a long form read but at least it doesn’t require being on twitter or TikTok or facebook! As always, proudly 100% AI-free 💯
Mental Yoga Sunday (#53) :: 4 Favorite Long Reads of the Week
"Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others." -- Charlotte Eriksson
Mental Yoga is a weekly, small collection of my favorite long form reads of the week. They either informed, moved, saddened or lifted me in some way. I hope they do the same for you.
FAVORITE LONG READS OF THE WEEK
1
A DEATH IN OHIO
"A few feet deeper into the forest, the crime scene unit found two black sneakers, a dark shirt, and a pair of black pants with a vine threaded through its belt loops. The clothes' tattered condition suggested that they, like the skull and loose bones, had been removed from the body by scavengers. Inside a pants pocket was a wallet containing a wad of waterlogged cash, rewards cards from Subway and a chain of erotic boutiques, and an Ohio state ID for Jerold Christoper Haas, born September 30, 1975." -- Brendan I. Koerner
The Strange Life and Mysterious Death of a Virtuoso Coder - Wired
2
XTREME JUSTICE LEAGUE
“Costumes or not, help is help.”
"They were genuine good guys, selfless defenders of the common man who found joy in the act of giving without getting anything in return. To be honest, I thought that sounded like a crock of shit. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe people could be altruistic when it came to protecting their communities, it was that I didn’t believe they could do so while wearing superhero costumes." -- Isabelle Kohn
2. Fighting Crime with San Diego’s Real-Life Superhero Squad - Mel Magazine
3
THE END OF SILENCE
"Quiet places have been on the road to extinction at a rate that far exceeds the extinction of species." -- Gordon Hempton
3. Why Everything Is Getting Louder - The Atlantic
4
KANGAROO PAJAMAS
"Qantas plans to offer the longest commercial flight ever, nonstop from New York to Sydney. Sarah Lyall took the test flight, with kangaroo-themed pajamas and, perhaps, too much medication." -- Sarah Lyall
4. Would 19 Hours and 16 Minutes in the Air Make Me Crazy?- The New York Times
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Mental Yoga Sunday (#52) :: Favorite Long Reads of the Week
"Human beings are the only animals on earth that claim a god and the only ones who act as if there isn't one." -- Hunter S. Thompson, "The Rum Diary"
Mental Yoga is a weekly, small collection of my favorite long form reads of the week. They either informed, moved, saddened or lifted me in some way. I hope they do the same for you.
FAVORITE LONG READS OF THE WEEK
1
FLEABAGGED
"People describe Phoebe as really cool, but, I don’t know, I feel that she’s not cool. Cool suggests detached and indifferent, and I think she’s actually the opposite of that, a boundless enthusiast for life." -- Andrew Scott, a longtime friend of Waller-Bridge, whom she cast as the “hot priest” in Fleabag
The World According to Phoebe Waller-Bridge - Vogue
2
ARE YOU BAD AT FRIENDSHIP?
"Our culture long ago made peace with the fragility of matrimony, but we still have high expectations for friendships. If you really care about someone, you should be able to pick up where you left off, no matter how long it’s been. Friendship’s something you don’t really lose, right?" -- Laura Lippman
2. The Art of Losing Friends and Alienating People - Longreads
3
THE OTHER AMAZON
"All of us here realize we’re fucking the environment. It’s not like we want to—it’s that we haven’t found any alternative means to survive." -- Jorge Silva
3. Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest - The New Yorker
4
UITWAAIEN
"So open that calendar app and note some time for uitwaaien. Whether it’s a windy, riverside bike ride or a jog up a steep San Francisco hill, chances are, your mind—not to mention your body—will thank you for it. " -- Alice Freerackers
4. The Simple Dutch Cure for Stress- Nautilus
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Mental Yoga Sunday (#51) :: Favorite Long Reads of the Week
"At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own." -- Bill Watterson
Mental Yoga is a collection of the best recent long form reads because it’s good to stretch your mind around something longer than a tweet or a Facebook post now and again.
FAVORITE LONG READS OF THE WEEK
1
“WE HAVE UMBRELLAS, THEY HAVE WEAPONS”
Tensions between the NBA and China have touched off an international firestorm. They’ve also shined a light on the fight for human rights in Hong Kong—and the frontliners at the center of the movement.
“This Should Be a Wake-up Call to the Whole World”: Inside the Hong Kong Protests - The Ringer
2
CALIFORNIA BURNING
"The easy calls have been made in dealing with California’s wildfire crisis. We’re clearing brush, spending on firefighters, hastening insurance claims. We’ve tied the pay of utility executives to their companies’ safety records. To save lives — and liability costs — during red flag conditions, we’ve cut power to great swaths of the state. We’ve spent billions...But it hasn’t been enough, and as Californians now face the realities of climate change by the terrified millions, the only choices left are hard vs. hard: Black out even more people. Ban wildland homebuilding. Bury power lines. Build microgrids. Break up the state’s largest utility — the bankrupt one supplying half of the state — and give its aging, spark-spewing equipment to taxpayers or customers or hedge funds or Warren Buffett. Burn nature before it burns you. So what are our options at this point, assuming we get through this season? Here are a few — with pros, cons and political odds. " -- Julie Cart & Judy Lin
2. California’s on fire, unplugged and out of easy answers. So why don’t we…? - Calm Matters
3
SCHEDULING CONFLICT
Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a dire toll on American society.
3. Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore - The Atlantic
4
DEFYING DEATH
"The pig brain is a large brain, unlike the one of the much smaller mouse, by far the most popular laboratory animal. Pig cortex is highly folded, like the human cortex. Neurosurgical procedures are routinely tested on pigs before moving to human trials. So, the technical answer is yes; in principle, this could be done. But should it be done?" -- Christof Hoch
4. Is Death Reversible? - Scientific American
5
Ken’s Crotch
Why couldn’t Ken have a penis?
The answer, it turns out, is intricate and somewhat bizarre. Ken was not merely dickless by default; the bulge was the result of careful strategizing to which his inventors, businessmen, a psychologist, and Japanese manufacturers all contributed. Despite all this planning, Ken still came to represent things his parent company never intended, as icons tend to do. The story of Ken’s crotch is not merely one of PR, manufacturing, and/or branding—it’s about which realities our culture deems acceptable, and which that it seeks to keep hidden. This goes not just for the doll, but for the man he was named after, Ken Handler, who died in 1994 with major parts of his life airbrushed out of public view.
5. The Strange, Sad Story of the Ken Doll’s Crotch - Jezebel
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Mental Yoga Sunday (#50)
Mental Yoga is a collection of the best recent long form reads. It’s good to stretch your mind around something longer than a tweet or a Facebook post now and again.
FAVORITE LONG READS OF THE WEEK
1
The North Carolina Klan thought burning crosses would scare the Lumbee tribe out of Robeson County. That’s not how things went down.
The Day the Native Americans Drove the KKK Out of Town - Narratvely
2
"To be “naturalised” as a German is an oxymoron. I am Jewish, the grandchild of Holocaust survivors. I am British, a Londoner." -- Hilary Freeman
2. Why I decided to claim German citizenship - New Statesman
3
"For a week, I tested out this silly internet adage by being wildly, gloriously wrong online. In preparation for my journey, I set some ground rules for myself. I would post on text-friendly platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, with the occasional Instagram post or YouTube comment. I wanted to avoid political topics and anything that might make it seem like I was being mean-spirited, so I picked my topics to be wrong about using the template first established by Trivial Pursuit: geography, entertainment, history, arts and literature, science and nature, and sports and leisure." -- Kevin Donnellan
3. I spent a week being wrong online - The Outline
4
"Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind. Cultivate that capacity for “negative capability.” We live in a culture where one of the greatest social disgraces is not having an opinion, so we often form our “opinions” based on superficial impressions or the borrowed ideas of others, without investing the time and thought that cultivating true conviction necessitates. We then go around asserting these donned opinions and clinging to them as anchors to our own reality. It’s enormously disorienting to simply say, “I don’t know.” But it’s infinitely more rewarding to understand than to be right — even if that means changing your mind about a topic, an ideology, or, above all, yourself." -- Maria Popova
4. 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings - Brain Pickings
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Mental Yoga Weekend :: Long Reads of the Week (#49)
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6 FAVORITE LONG READS OF THE WEEK
The Respect Deficit - Aeon
Inside the Very Big, Very Controversial Business of Dog Cloning - Vanity Fair
Architects of the Future - How We Get To Next
How Millennials Can Save the Postal Service - City Lab
The future is ear: Why “hearables” are finally tech’s next big thing - Fast Company
Confessions of an Unredeemed Fan - Longreads
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Mental Yoga Weekend :: Long Reads of the Week (#48)
Mental Yoga Weekend is a collection of my favorite long reads I unearth during the week. I save them for the weekend so readers have a chance to sit back and read without pressure. I hope you enjoy these stories as much as I did.
5 Favorite Long Reads of the Week
Animals Need Infrastructure Too - City Lab
Look Up From Your Screen (After you've read Ventipop) - Aeon
The World’s Most Peculiar Company - Chicago Mag
A Deadly Hunt For Hidden Treasure Spawns An Online Mystery - Wired
Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth - The Guardian
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Mental Yoga Weekend :: Long Reads of the Week (#47)
Mental Yoga Weekend is a collection of my favorite long reads I unearth during the week. I save them for the weekend so readers have a chance to sit back and read without pressure. I hope you enjoy these stories as much as I did.
5 Favorite Long Reads of the Week
Friends and Enemies: On Slogan Tees - Los Angeles Review of Books
Bourdain Confidential - Popula
How Prince Helped Me Feel Seen - Literary Hub
Liz Parrish Wants To Live Forever - Outside Online
What If the Teen City Council Is Better Than the Grownup One? - City Lab
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