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FEBRUARY 2023

Read:

What public philosophy is, and why we need it more than ever

Great books are still great

A Grand Unified Theory of Buying Stuff

The world feels fragile, but we can recover from the blows we’ve suffered

Hedonism is overrated - to make the best of life there must be pain, says this Yale professor

The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximise Retention

Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science?

I Am a Meme Now - And So Are You

The Beauty-Happiness Connection

Are Screens Robbing Us of Our Capacity for Deep Reading?

I Feel, Therefore I Am

Exercise boosts the brain - and mental health

Everyone Is Grotesque and No One Is Turned On

‘One billionaire at a time’: inside the Swiss clinics where the super-rich go for rehab

Life After Food?

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher

Vladimir by Julia May Jonas

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission that Changed our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene

The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols

Watched:

time is a social construct

Happy Valley (S3)

Marie Antoinette (BBC/Canal+)

The Gold (BBC)

The Good Shepherd

Listened To:

The Strokes’ The New Abnormal

Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories

How Social Media Could Be Making You Ill with Cal Newport

Change Your Brain: The Power of Neuroplasticity and Braincare - Dr Tara Swart*

Went To:

Seminars, meetings, MDTs, nothing of note