#** I ignored the warnings against watching this because I am morbidly curious but please heed mine.

[luxe-pauvre]

OCTOBER 2022

Read:

How Sofia Coppola made Marie Antoinette

Almost everything you think you know about diets is wrong - here’s why

The Anxiety of Influencers

Welcome to hell, Elon

Stop Saying You “Could Never Do Science”

One Part of Your Life You Shouldn’t Optimize

Scientific slowdown is not inevitable

Mapping the brain to understand the mind

Meditation is like mountaineering: approach it with care

Why philosophy needs myth

on and off

Into the Fairy Castle: The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism

It’s Not All In Your Head

Are men animals?

The beautiful experiment

Medicine’s Wellness Conundrum

The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel

Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman

Insatiable by Daisy Buchanan

Livewired by David Eagleman

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak

Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed

The Harpy by Megan Hunter

Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchauspé

Watched:

2 Years Of Writing A Book In 30 Minutes*

Antonio Damasio meets Noga Arikha

Digital Women: Blade Runner 2049, Ex Machina, and Her

Blonde**

Last Night in Soho

This England

Listened To:

Henry Marsh on brain surgery

Temptation by Heaven 17

Renaissance by Beyonce (again, again)

Went To:

The Art of Movement, Van Cleef & Arpels @ The Design Museum

Fashion Museum Bath

Sam Smith @ The Royal Albert Hall

Food for Life – The New Science of Eating Well with Prof. Tim Spector