17 excellent articles this week. This includes well-being – a cool new meditation technique, learn your muscle groups easily and the risks around even light drinking. On tech, clothes that generate electricity and robots that look after your pets. And for fun, the best TV shows, best Japanese photos of 2019 and quirky lessons of the year.
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17 excellent articles this week. This includes well-being: a cool new meditation technique, learn your muscle groups easily and the risks around even light drinking. On tech, clothes that generate electricity and robots that look after your pets. And for fun, the best TV shows, best Japanese photos of 2019 and quirky lessons of the year.
Finally, check out my latest blog on 4 Eating Tips For Good Health.
Enjoy!
Bilal
The Lesson to Unlearn (Paul Graham, 16 mins) The article argues one of the damaging things we learn in school is how to get good grades – it encourages a mindset of hacking (i.e. doing past papers) rather than learning. This hacking mindset often leads to business failure as shortcuts are used.
How to Improve Your Memory: Four TED Talks Explain the Techniques to Remember Anything (Open Culture) Four Ted Talks on memory. Common tricks include using bizarre imagery and forming obscure stories around things you want to memorise.
Go Outside (Seths Blog, 1 min) Simple advice from Seth Godin: “When in doubt, go outside. Especially when it’s inconvenient.”
Meditation for Artists: Learn Moebius’ Meditative Technique Called “Automatic Drawing” (Open Culture) Pretty cool technique. Video demonstrates “automatic drawing” – no breaks or lifting pencil off the canvas. Allows you to disappear into your creative realm and improve creativity.
Yet More Research Links Even Light Drinking to a Higher Cancer Risk (Gizmodo, 2 mins) Using data of 63,000 Japanese patients diagnosed with cancer, the authors found that light to moderate drinkers (relative to non-drinkers) were 5% more likely to develop cancer.
The 5 Main Muscles Made Easy (LESSWRONG, 4 mins) Great animated visuals of our five main muscles of movement. So next time your trainer shouts “glutes or brace your core” you would know exactly where they are.
Five Supplements That Claim to Speed Up Weight Loss – And What The Science Says (The Conversation, 4 mins) Latest weight loss supplements, like raspberry ketones, matcha green tea powder and Garcinia cambogia, have little science backing them.
The First Algae-Based Ink is Derived From Spirulina Instead of Petrochemicals (FAST COMPANY, 2 mins) The ink derived from by-products of spirulina algae is renewable and can replace carbon black ink. Carbon black ink is produced from heavy crude oil (generates a carbon footprint) and is listed as a class 2b carcinogen.
Pet-Sitting Robot Gets A Thumbs Up In Seoul(Future IoT, 2 mins)Pet-sitter robot called Peddy takes care of pets! It can feed the pet, entertain it and allows the owner to communicate with pets from anywhere in the world.
Electric Cars, Explained: How Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and Audi Build EVs (Robb Report, 9 mins) For all the car enthusiasts, this simplified primer will give you the basics on how electric cars are built.
This T-Shirt Uses Your Body Heat To Generate Electricity (Fast Company, 3 mins) TheE-Textiles Industry Is Getting Closer To reality. Thermal power generated by a run can now be used to generate electric voltage that charges your phone on the go. Apparently tomato skins are part of this process!
52 Things I Learned in 2019 (Medium, 7 mins) 2019 has some new surprises. For example, “Emojis are starting to appear in evidence in court cases, and lawyers are worried: ‘When emoji symbols are strung together, we don’t have a reliable way of interpreting their meaning.’”
This Is Why Children’s TV Is So Weird – And So Mesmerising (Mosaic Science, 20 mins) Some kids shows might be indeed strange for adult eyes! But with an open-minded approach, they can be a pathway to the child’s minds and how their brains process information.
Looking Back on 2019 Through Japan’s Photojournalism Awards (Spoon Tamago, 1 min) Exceptional photos from Japan that capture the moods in Japan in 2019.
The Best Video Games of 2019 (GQ, 12 mins) I’m not a gamer, but this gives a taste of what’s big in this massive industry. Includes Apex Legends, the Untitled Goose Game and Control. Never heard of them!
The 10 Best Literary TV Adaptations of the Decade (Literary Hub, 25 mins) Presents this decade’s top ten television shows that started out from the books. Includes Justified, Sherlock and Game of Thrones.
The Best TV Shows of 2019 (GQ, 3 mins) For more recent shows, here’s GQ’s list. Includes: The Other Two, Dickinson and Barry.
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