thinking thursday.

MIND

Here are 20 classic novels you’ve (probably) never heard of. For your reading list?

The science of self-deceit: “After three decades of pondering how self-deception might have given our predecessors an evolutionary advantage, Trivers has come up with a theory: We often deceive ourselves because it then becomes easier to deceive others.” And sometimes that self-deception has fatal consequences.

Talk about marginalia! A beautiful example of the architecture of thought, made more beautiful by Mr Brilliant’s appreciation of it.

BODY

Oh, lord, yes, I want this strawberry balsamic and olive oil cake to show up on my kitchen table tomorrow like magic. MAYBE SOMEONE IN MY FAMILY COULD MAKE A VEGAN VERSION OF IT FOR ME FOR MOTHER’S DAY.

Being swallowed by a hippo is not a perspective one has often. And it can have tragic consequences.

Did you know that sewage plants are especially vulnerable to climate change?

SOUL

This photograph of a final embrace will remain with you: “Every time I look back to this photo, I feel uncomfortable — it haunts me. It’s as if they are saying to me, we are not a number — not only cheap labor and cheap lives. We are human beings like you. Our life is precious like yours, and our dreams are precious too.” (Bangladesh, garment factory collapse)

This free mending library is, in some ways, a collaborative community project, spearheaded by one man with a sewing machine. “Viewed as ‘social artist’ by some and a curiosity by others, Swaine insists he is merely a ‘guy who sews.'”

WORD

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” -Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard’s Egg

(image from here)