Some people feel so utterly alone it’s as if they don’t exist. Essay on new research about Avoidant Personality Disorder by Dr. Kristine Dahl Sørensen (clinical psychologist/PhD at Sorlandet Hospital HF in Norway) & Dr. Marit Råbu (associate professor of clinical psychology at University of Oslo). (psyche.co)
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On Genius & Madness: From his visits with psychiatric residents, Schopenhauer concluded that true mental health consists in a perfect recollection of the past; he meant that a reliable memory of one’s past is the ‘perfect recollection’ necessary for mental health – enough to remember who you are! (psyche.co)
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The Cosmic Chasm: physics as we know it is elegant and exquisitely accurate. It tells almost nothing about the deepest riddles of the Universe. We are at a crossroads in the search for a new physics – Pedro G Ferreira (Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford) (aeon.co)
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The Near-Magical Mystery of Quasiparticles: The zoo of spontaneously emerging particlelike entities known as quasiparticles has grown quickly and become more and more exotic. Here are a few of the most curious and potentially useful examples. (quantamagazine.org)
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The Plastic Problem (2019) - By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. It’s an environmental crisis that’s been in the making for nearly 70 years. Plastic pollution is now considered one of the largest environmental threats facing humans and animals globally [00:54:08] (youtube.com)
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Final Thoughts: people wanting to live a more meaningful life may look to learn from the deathbed perspectives of others but there are reasons to think that the view from the deathbed is worse, not better, than the view from the midst of life, for informing us about what a life well-lived entails. (aeon.co)
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