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For our Life letter this week, we bring you notes on optimism, hope and trust, and ways to create more clarity in life. To keep your fitness levels high during lockdown, listen to a podcast on nutrition and have a high Vitamin D intake.
On the innovation side, NASA will be launching a rover onto Mars this February, and self-driving cars have become more advanced. Distract yourself by reading about Ancient Egyptian artefacts or keep yourself entertained with a good book from a list of novels.
Enjoy!
Bilal
The Challenge of Doing Hard Challenges (zen habits, 3 min read)
By combatting hard challenges, Leo Babauta asserts that difficulty, discomfort, resistance, and fear are nothing to be afraid of. Instead, embrace the idea of falling in love with discomfort, and you will find joy in the challenges you face.
Notes on Optimism, Hope, and Trust (Less Wrong, 5 min read)
How can we improve on hope, optimism, and trust? Find ways to become more optimistic and try not to dwell on the negative aspects in life.
How to Create More Clarity in Your Life (The Art of Manliness, 5 min read)
Clarity is important. It helps us to distinguish between what is important and what is irrelevant in life. Mastering clarity can harness motivation, courage, honesty, and a sense of safety.
The Ideal Nutrition & How To Use Supplements – 20 Minutes Fitness Episode #222 (20 Minute Fitness, 38 min listen)
Listen to this podcast featuring Chris Ashenden. He discusses how he overcame his health problems and created a diet that satisfies the nutritional needs for anyone who is active.
The Pandemic Is a Marathon. Here’s How to Stay Strong. (Outside Magazine, 4 min read)
There are many ways to try and stay optimistic throughout the pandemic. These six principles can hopefully shed light on how to get through the year positively.
5 Vital Reasons to Boost Your Vitamin D Intake (Life Savvy, 4 min read)
Vitamin D has numerous benefits to our bodies. Some of these include preventing depression, helping the immune system, preventing diabetes, and fortifying muscles and bones.
Historic NASA Launch Platform Will Be Demolished (i09, 3 min read)
This historic launch pad has a lot of historic meaning behind it -launching the Apollo 12 and 14 missions 50 years ago. Its retirement is significant, as it paves the way for a new era for NASA, and its new ‘megarocket’.
Toyota and Stanford Just Built a Self-Driving Supra That Can Drift on Its Own (Robb Report, 3 min read)
A self-driving car is nothing new these days. However, this car has the ability to pull off advanced driving skills like drifting!
What Does Mars Sound Like? The Perseverance Rover Is Going to Find Out (i09, 3 min read)
Perseverance will be fitted with two microphones intended to record the sounds of entering Mars’ atmosphere and its surface. According to scientists, sound on Mars has a much lower pitch, and will take longer to reach the ear.
We Need to Talk About The Rapid Decline in Insects Around The World (Science Alert, 3 min read)
Insects are hugely important to the Earth’s ecology, and they are declining at an alarming rate. Here are a few tips from scientists on how we can combat this. They recommend leaving a section of your garden or land reserved for insects.
Akbar the Great – the ultimate Renaissance ruler – Engelsberg Ideas (Engelsberg Ideas, 5 min read)
Akbar has been described as the ultimate renaissance man. He was a connoisseur of cultures and foreshadowed the Christian Enlightenment.
A 3,000-Year-Old Painter’s Palette from Ancient Egypt, with Traces of the Original Colors Still In It (Open Culture, 4 min read)
This ancient Egyptian colour palette still contains pigments of the paint colours it once held. Inscribed on the side is ‘beloved of Re’, a royal reference to the sun god.
HBO’s Next Game of Thrones Spinoff Is George R.R. Martin’s Dunk & Egg Adventures (i09, 2 min read)
The spinoff is a prequel to the original series, exploring the conflicts between the House Targaryen set 300 years before Game of Thrones.
A Short Film Chronicles Mural Fest Kosovo, Void Projects’ Initiative to Infuse a War-Torn City with Public Art (Colossal, 4 min read)
Watch this thought-provoking short documentary that follows ten artists who immerse themselves in Ferizaj, a small war-torn city. They engage in school initiatives with children and teens, an interesting insight into the area’s ecology and citizens.
14 new books to fuel your reading resolutions. (Literary Hub, 2 min read)
Fuel your literary brain by choosing a new novel to read from this list.
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