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Photograph by Fly Dragon Fly
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| WHAT WE FOUND |
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How the Heart, Lungs and Brain Work Together to Shape Experience
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Butterflies in your stomach. A racing heart. Feeling choked up. These aren’t just figures of speech. Your sense of self actually depends on your brain waves syncing up with your body’s own rhythms, your heartbeat, your breathing, even your gut. When that sync falls into the right zone, that’s when conscious experience seems to click into place. Your body might be running the show more than your brain gets credit for. The Goldilocks zone. ›
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The Most Popular Halloween Costume the Year You Were Born
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In 1969, three months after the moon landing, everyone went as an astronaut. In 1986 it was a claymation raisin from a television advert. In 1999, Neo from The Matrix. Halloween seems to feed on whatever or whoever is trending the most. Find your year. ›
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| MORE GOOD STUFF |
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What Flying Really Cost in the 1950s and ’60s
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A single round trip from New York to LA in 1961 would run you the equivalent of $3,300 today. Flying wasn’t just a way to get somewhere back then, it was a genuine luxury, government-regulated, dressed up, and priced to match. It took one law in 1978 to blow the whole thing open and make flying cheap enough for everyone. Bigger seats and real meals, sure, but there was a reason so few people actually got to experience it. What one law changed. ›
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How Leonardo da Vinci’s Procrastination Contributed to His Creativity
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Leonardo would stare at The Last Supper for an hour, make a single brushstroke, and leave. The Mona Lisa took him sixteen years and he finished it just before he died. It seems something so looked down on today was actually a part of how he worked. Inside the mind of a genius. ›
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| TOP SHELF |
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13 bizarre vintage food ads we can’t believe are real. 8 best plain white t-shirts for men. The real problem with too much logic. Why measuring Earth’s exact shape helped prove Newton’s theory of gravity. And what is hiding in the most secret building in Manhattan?
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| ONE TO FOLLOW |
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@sethsfilmreviews
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Great account that shares good film recommendations and breaks down iconic moments in cinema history since the 1930s.
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| LAST WORD |
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“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
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— SENECA
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