#online articles

[whoviancumberbunny]

10 Ace and Aro Icons Who Revolutionized How We See Asexuality

From Marilyn Monroe to Michaela Coel, these real and fictional figures are pushing our society to see the full spectrum of the ace and aro c

[microcosme11]

Article about Larrey online

The author (Robert Richardson) wrote an entire book about Larrey but I’m too cheap to buy it at this time. Meanwhile, here’s a link to this article.

[the-august-one]

shout out to those websites who put at the top of their articles the average length of time it would take to read each article. its just dead useful for a Spoonie with ADHD to plan whether an article can be read right then or needs to be bookmarked for later when energy levels are high and concertation is better.

[blankpaperworm]

Writing Extreme Emotion Without The Melodrama

“To avoid melodrama, recognize that emotions run along a continuum, from mild to extreme. For each situation, know where your character is along that continuum and choose appropriate descriptors. Just as extreme emotions call for extreme indicators, temperate emotions should be expressed subtly. The indicators for intermediate emotions will lie somewhere in the middle.”

https://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/02/writing-extreme-emotion-without-melodrama/

[zaynmalikupdates]

Zayn Just Dropped His First Solo Single in 2 Years, and Please Excuse Us While We Swoon

Sep 24 2020 by MEKISHANA PIERRE

Zayn Malik just dropped his first solo single in two years, and wow, it was certainly worth the wait. On Friday, the singer released "Better" alongside a laid-back music video featuring a shirtless Zayn with newly dyed red hair. The soothing R&B melody is grown and sexy, with lyrics about love and heartbreak, while showing off the former boy bander's smooth vocals.

The singer debuted his sophomore album, Icarus Falls, in December 2018, and he's kept a pretty low profile since, though he has gifted fans with a few collaborations, like the revamp of the Aladdin classic "A Whole New World" with Zhavia Ward, Shaed's "Trampoline" remix, and "Flames" with R3hab and Jungleboi.

(via POPSUGAR)

[breakingtheboycode]

Nearly every guy I interviewed held relatively egalitarian views about girls, at least their role in the public sphere. They considered their female classmates to be smart and competent, entitled to their place on the athletic field and in school leadership, deserving of their admission to college and of professional opportunities. They all had female friends; most had gay male friends as well. That was a huge shift from what you might have seen 50, 40, maybe even 20 years ago. They could also easily reel off the excesses of masculinity. They’d seen the headlines about mass shootings, domestic violence, sexual harassment, campus rape, presidential Twitter tantrums, and Supreme Court confirmation hearings. A Big Ten football player I interviewed bandied about the term toxic masculinity. ‘Everyone knows what that is,’ he said, when I seemed surprised.

Yet when asked to describe the attributes of ‘the ideal guy,’ those same boys appeared to be harking back to 1955. Dominance. Aggression. Rugged good looks. Sexual prowess. Stoicism. Athleticism. Wealth. It’s not that all of these qualities, properly channeled, are bad. But while a 2018 national survey found that young women believed there were many ways to be a girl—they could shine in math, sports, music, leadership (the big caveat being that they still felt valued primarily for their appearance)—young men described just one narrow route to successful masculinity.

[…]

Feminism may have provided girls with a powerful alternative to conventional femininity, and a language with which to express the myriad problems-that-have-no-name, but there have been no credible equivalents for boys. Quite the contrary: The definition of masculinity seems to be in some respects contracting.

Peggy Orenstein, The Miseducation of the American Boy

[currentsinbiology]

 How your brain makes articles go viral

Although it might be intuitive to expect people would think about themselves in deciding what to read personally and think about others in deciding what to share, the researchers found something else: Whether they were choosing to read for themselves or deciding what to recommend to others, the neural data suggest that people think about both themselves and others.

In fact, the researchers report in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, that thinking about what to share brought out the highest levels of activity in both of these neural systems.

"When you're thinking about what to read yourself and about what to share, both are inherently social, and when you're thinking socially, you're often thinking about yourself and your relationships to others," says Baek. "Your self-concept and understanding of the social world are intertwined."

A neural model of information virality, PNAS, www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1615259114

[zaynmalikupdates]

The name Icarus of course comes from the Greek myth of the optimist that flew too close to the sun and met his end as a result. But with 'Icarus Falls’, the 25-year-old singer of past teen adulation manages to fly high without burning out.  The story of Icarus is one of tragedy, but there’s only signs of success within this offering as ZAYN begins the journey to realising his full potential.

Clash Music rates Icarus Falls 7 out of 10 - 12/20 x