Currently Creasing: Week of December 2
Here’s what our team has for you to bookmark & read this week
Teaching Resilience in the Face of Climate Change: Federally funded programs use games, gardens and rain barrels to empower adults and kids facing threats like sea-level rise, drought and flooding.
The False Promise of Morning Routines: Why everyone’s mornings seem more productive than yours.
In this angry and stressed-out time, research says we can learn to be kinder: Practicing “empathy and kindness” seems to help rewire our brains to unleash our better selves, says a scholar.
If ‘Pain Is an Opinion,’ There Are Ways to Change Your Mind: All pain is real, but it’s also true that it’s “made by the brain” and that we can exert some control over it.
Our favourite new podcast: New discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines — all in about 10 minutes, every weekday.
I used to think I needed a house and a big salary by age 30. Now that I’m about to leave my 20s behind, I have new goals. Now, I want to find what truly makes me happy
Marie Kondo Goes Full Goop: The tidying guru helped America clean out its closets. Now she wants to fill them back up.
You can now buy incredibly expensive, incredibly stupid CBD-infused athleisure wear: The people have gone without for much too long.
The Service That Makes Shame a Productivity Hack: These days, the seven deadly sins are not all so sinful.
Why do women keep looking for ways to optimize their vaginas? The vajacial, essentially a facial for your vagina, is the latest trend in obtaining vaginal palatability.