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This week we bring you tips for self-care, and ways to stay creative when times become monotonous. To maintain a healthy and balanced diet, why not try sourcing your food from trees? This will help the environment too! Physicists have made spectacular discoveries recently, observing rogue planets and mysterious radio bursts in the galaxy.
Distract yourself this month with a list of sci-fi and fantasy novels, and for our entertainment side, take a look at a modern novel that will be adapted into a film.
Enjoy!
Bilal
How to Stay Creative When Life Feels Monotonous (Harvard Business Review, 5 min read)
Embrace an expressive outlet, harness negative emotions, broaden your network, and spend time in nature to ensure creativity is not lost.
How to Brace Yourself for Disappointment (Harvard Business Review, 5 min read)
Ask yourself if worrying will make the situation better, and calmy think through what the worst-case scenario would be. And above all, remain hopeful.
The Self-Care Routines of 5 American Presidents (The Art of Manliness, 4 min read)
Four points to keep in mind;(i) Combine socialisation with your self-care routine, (ii) change-up your typical workday, (iii) create a personal self-care routine, and (iv) pursue a rich and varied self-care routine.
Here Are 14 Calming Works From Art History to Help You Relax Despite Everything Giving You Anxiety Right Now (Artnet News, 3 min read)
Works of Art include the meditating Buddha, abstract paintings, sweeping landscapes, and tranquil scenes of home
Become a Beefatarian: Commission backs campaign promoting ‘balanced diet without deficiencies’ (FoodNavigator, 4 min read)
The ‘beefatarian’ movement encourages a healthy diet of nutrients taken from red meat, making sure to incorporate vegetables in your diet.
Can You Use Coffee As A Fitness Supplement? (Perfect Daily Grind, 3 min read)
Using coffee safely as a fitness supplement can provide sustained energy and alertness while training. Additionally, studies show that drinking good coffee regularly can lead to a lower risk of cancer, dementia, and Type 2 diabetes.
Better health – for people and the planet – grows on trees (EurekAlert!, 4 min read)
Encouraging the population to eat more tree-sourced foods, such as mangos, avocados, and Brazil nuts, fosters a healthy diet within, and has a potential for economic and environmental benefits.
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing The Fitness Industry During COVID-19 (CustomerThink, 4 min read)
Latest innovations in the fitness industry includes AI personal trainers, AI-Driven Diet Planning, and Smart Clothes, all making for exceptional consumer demand.
Warped Starlight Reveals Smallest Rogue Planet Known to Science (io9, 4 min read)
Relatively small, rogue planets have no gravitational tether to any star, floating freely through space.
The best smartwatches, fitness trackers and wearables to gift (Engadget, 4 min read)
Some of the latest brands include the latest durable Apple and Samsung smartwatches, as well as more elegant styles such as Garmin and Fossil.
Mysterious Radio Burst in Our Galaxy Came From a Magnetar (io9, 5 min read)
The burst came from a magnetic neutron star, known as a magnetar. Absolutely incredible.
November Is Full of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Help You Make It Through 2020’s Home Stretch (io9, 5 min read)
Here’s a complete list of sci-fi and fantasy novels to keep yourself occupied throughout November.
An Anamorphic Mural Transforms a Montreal Street into Undulating Sand Dunes (Colossal, 1 min read)
The 2018 project evokes a ‘perspective-bending’ approach, creating a path that mimics deserts and beaches.
How to Adventure Solo (Outside Magazine, 4 min read)
Adventuring on your own doesn’t have to be intimidating. I would recommend keeping a personal journal and camera to document your adventure, which will make it all the more exciting.
Need to relax? Try the soothing sounds of old French books. (Yes, really.) (Literary Hub, 1 min read)
This video takes you into the world of ASMR, and is oddly soothing as you can listen to ‘8 Crinkly Ancient Books from a French Bouquiniste [bookseller] in Paris’.
Fighter Jet Pilot Explains What Top Gun Got Wrong in Famous Scene (PetaPixel, 3 min read)
One of the mistakes was that fighter jets are not supposed to fly upside down, and doing so for longer than 15 to 20 seconds will starve the engine of fuel.
The Things They Carried is finally being adapted for film (and the cast is insane). (Literary Hub, 2 min read)
The Things They Carried is a semi-autobiographical book full of short stories about the Vietnam War. A modern classic, this is something to watch out for on the big screen.
Avengers: United They Stand Was a Chance for Earth’s Other Heroes to Shine (io9, 4 min read)
A 90s take on the modern, live-action Avengers, it provides a glimpse into the world of Marvel’s wild
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