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Proseguendo il discorso del messaggio precedente, la lettera di dimissioni di Bari Weiss dal New York Times, dopo l’assunzione che aveva l’obiettivo di portare un po’ di conservatorismo in un giornale dalle opinioni liberali che aveva completamente mancato di prevedere il fenomeno Donald Trump. Una lettera pesante che spiega come il problema non sia solo di una parte degli elettori o dei giornalisti o dei politici. La responsabilità è comune.

Money quote: “But the lessons that ought to have followed the election—lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”

https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
Chiude Odessa, uno dei tre grandi ristoranti alternativi del Village di New York

Money quote: "It was like a time capsule and a love letter to the East Village of three decades earlier. But even then, I could see that the restaurant’s days were numbered. Not only was the value of frontage on Tompkins Square zooming, but this kind of food was becoming increasingly less popular. Yes, you can still get it at places like Veselka (opened 1954), but now the troika of Kiev, Leshko’s, and Odessa will all be shuttered, depriving the East Village and its arts scene of an important vestige of its culinary history."

https://ny.eater.com/2020/7/14/21322961/odessa-closure-east-village-robert-sietsema-lookback
La prima cosa che mi ha attratto di questo articolo è la foto di apertura, che avevo visto anche io sui siti dove si distribuiscono foto gratuitamente per scrivere. Bella immagine, evocativa. L'idea dell'articolo, invece, è singolare: a differenza della retorica che circola adesso per cui lo smart work è qui per restare, secondo l'autore dell'articolo invece le cose non stanno così.

Money quote: "I haven’t had the “good fortune” of working from home during the quarantine season. I’ve still been going into the office each day, but I am experiencing the effects of 1/3 of my staff working from remote locations, including their homes. I am very much looking forward to having my team back together in the same location."

https://medium.com/swlh/remote-work-is-not-here-to-stay-9ef4f0f8f169
Altro che bicicletta della mente: il condor delle Ande fa cento miglia con un solo battito delle ali

Money quote: "For the first time, a team of scientists strapped recording equipment they called “daily diaries” to eight condors in Patagonia to record each wingbeat over more than 250 hours of flight time.

Incredibly, the birds spent just 1% of their time aloft flapping their wings, mostly during takeoff. One bird flew more than five hours, covering more than 100 miles (160km), without flapping its wings.

“Condors are expert pilots but we just had not expected they would be quite so expert,” said Prof Emily Shepard, a study co-author and biologist at Swansea University in Wales."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/13/andean-condor-fly-without-flapping-wings-flight-bird
C'è un odioso stereotipo che sostiene che i figli unici siano meno intelligenti di quelli con fratelli o sorelle. Ebbene, posso dire da figlio unico e con l'aiuto della scienza, che non è vero. Anzi, i figli unici sono più flessibili e creativi.

Money quote: "The idea that only children are somehow deficient was started 125 years ago by Granville Stanley Hall, a leader in the child-study movement, writes Lauren Sandler, author of One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joys of Being One. Having worked on the 1896 study “Of Peculiar and Exceptional Children,” Hall cast only children as “oddballs” as “permanent misfits,” descriptions that have stuck over the years with remarkable persistence. “Being an only child is a disease in itself,” he claimed.

There is ample evidence suggesting the stereotypes of the “lonely only” are wrong."

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/neuroscience-shows-that-our-gut-instincts-about-only-children-are-right
Ora, io capisco tutto: si scrive su Medium per attirare i click e fare due soldi, la prospettiva black matters, il punto di vista femminile-femminista, il disagio che si vive in un'altra cultura e che diventa difficile da comprendere perché diverso da quelli della nostra cultura, e tutto il resto. Però, questo che sembrava un semplice articolo su "terapia e matrimonio" (una accoppiata interessante, direi), si è rivelato un delirio. Cioè, ma sul serio? Credo di vivere su un altro pianeta.

Money quote: "My mother’s “all men are trash” rhetoric never sat well with my spirit. So, with the help of my therapist, I went back into those spaces most of us fear — those dark, dank corners of our past relationships, where everything we’ve ever learned about love, from the people who love us the most, has been wrong.

One constant I found is that I date mentally unstable men. When I’m not dating them, I’m marrying them. And whether I’m dating or marrying them, I’m ignoring their mental health issues — as well as my own."

https://level.medium.com/why-isnt-therapy-a-prerequisite-for-marriage-e6ec2b9721a9