The very best ones are highlighted large.
Turns out, crying, weeping, and expressing your emotions in all sorts of other ways used to be not only not shameful, but even noble. Yes, not just among the gentle sex, but among the absolute toughest guys out there: knights, kings, and warriors. The idea that a man must have the face of Steven Seagal and never drop a single tear is a recent invention, from the 19th and, to a greater extent, the 20th centuries.
As an emotional person, I cannot approve of such a trend!
2. https://golbis.com/pin/shokiruyushhie-otkroveniya-himika-sergeya-belkova-kotoryie-stoit-prochitat-kazhdomu-himicheskaya-eda/#.VbWHVbYsb4f
“Chemical food” is the boogeyman of our time. People don't want to eat harmful chemicals, but want to eat healthy natural products. However, what they understand by this is mostly myths, chemist Sergei Belkov tells Gazeta.Ru in his lecture.
Despite the stupid headline, this is a wonderful article about how it's not chemicals that are harmful, but what science has found to be harmful. And this wildly diverges from what the broad masses consider harmful.
Famous vanilla pods don't naturally contain vanillin; it appears in them only after ripening and falling off. The plant doesn't need vanillin, its goal is to protect the seeds from harmful molds and bacteria. It's a substance protecting plants from being eaten, and only by a fluke of nature did humans like its taste, which says nothing about its health benefits. Cranberries contain more sodium benzoate than is allowed in food preservation.
If you run cranberries through the allowed tolerances for preservative content, they should be banned, they have an overdose of preservatives.
Before sodium nitrite was added to sausage, the so-called sausage disease — botulism — was a fairly common occurrence. The very word “botulism” originates from the ancient Roman word for “sausage”. Sodium nitrite reliably kills the bacterium producing the deadly toxin. And if we talk about quantities, 1 kg of spinach or broccoli will give you as much nitrite as 50 kg of bologna.
Yet another article about the origins and causes of happiness in human life. Not news for those interested, but nevertheless: to a large percentage, the subjective feeling of happiness is genetically predetermined. If you were lucky enough to be born a Dane, it's in the bag. If not — try to have more friends, colleagues, acquaintances, and relatives, and have good relationships with them — this is perhaps the second strongest generator of happiness. The article has other details too, go read it.
The Swedes are experimenting with a six-hour workday, the result is positive. My dream. But the experiments have been paused for now, everyone else is probably jealous.
5. https://www.thebookoflife.org/why-we-hate-cheap-things/
A very interesting article about how people assign value to things based on their industrial production cost, which is stupid. Things that only aristocrats and even kings used to possess, we can now get for pennies, but we don't enjoy them the way we should. A ton of interesting examples: about how a pineapple used to cost five thousand pounds, a bathtub took half a day to heat, the view from an airplane cabin takes your breath away and boggles the mind, and our clothes are soft, beautiful, and pleasant to the touch, in all colors and styles.
The topic isn't new, but the article is long, detailed, and well-written. I recommend it with all my heart.
Lighting affects the psyche, especially sleep, and modern LED lamps have a problem with their spectrum: the color temperature is too high, and right before bed this messes with the production of melatonin, the hormone regulating human circadian rhythms. Enterprising folks have learned to whip up special lamps so that kiddos sleep like logs. Smart, but expensive for now, 30-60 bucks or more a pop.
7. https://daily.rbc.ru/interview/technology_and_media/07/07/2015/559a6a319a79470cf64847a6
An interview with Shnurov. I rarely listen to his music, but I love him as a businessman and a showman, the guy's sharp.
Sex ed for women, but useful for everyone to read, so as not to have weird ideas about such an important matter
About how an alpinist battled a peak. You can think of these guys in different ways, either as sick in the head or as courageous, strong-spirited heroes, but the read is gripping.
An interview with Vladimir Pozner, whom I like, and therefore his perspective on life is always relevant.
Remember George Orwell's saying that all animals are equal, but some are more equal? Well, some — yes. I've become more tolerant. I've started to understand more. And when an argument arises, I'm much calmer. I came to the conclusion a long time ago that arguing is pointless. After all, only in the rarest of cases do you manage to change someone's mind. That's why I love the interview genre so much. I practically don't argue with anyone. I reason like this: I just want to know your opinion. Do you really think all Jews should be hanged? Yes? Well, let's move on. Are you expecting me to object? Don't hold your breath.That's enough for today, come back again!
