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I read a batch of all sorts of curious articles on my phone using the Pocket service, and I'll thoughtfully recommend to you the ones that I liked mucho. Most of them are in English, so don't hold it against me: these days in Russian you can only read about ukrops, vatniks, national greatness, liberasts, the two-faced West, and other uninteresting topics.

1.  https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/modern-love-to-fall-in-love-with-anyone-do-this.html

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How to use a simple technique to help people fall in love with each other. All it takes is for them to ask each other a series of increasingly intimate questions, and then look into each other's eyes for four minutes.

 

2. https://qz.com/310622/the-scientific-evidence-against-spanking-timeouts-and-sleep-training/

More and more scientific evidence shows that you shouldn't spank kids or force them to go to sleep,  otherwise they'll grow up to be neurotics and misanthropes. And all because the person a child attaches to shouldn't show aggression and violate trust. From such a person, a child expects protection and support, not violence. I don't have kids myself, and I probably wouldn't be able to hold back from harsher parenting methods either, but you still have to try.

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3. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/know-feel

Facial emotion analysis software is already widely used, and constantly improving. Soon it will be possible to always know what people are really feeling, how they will react to a movie or an ad. Surveillance will be total and irreversible, and robots will know more about you than you do yourself.

 

4. https://elementy.ru/lib/432416

How ants behave, and why you shouldn't think they have minds, even though they create very complex material and social structures. A long article, but it's in Russian, and very interesting.

 

5. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/opinion/sugar-season-its-everywhere-and-addictive.html

Sugar is addictive, even more so than cocaine. It's added everywhere, while the obesity epidemic is gaining momentum, and all of this is fully welcomed by society.

 

6. https://zenhabits.net/limits/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

Why not limit yourself to live a more moderate and deeper life, instead of a spoiled and satiated one?