Currently Creasing: Week of June 10

Collage ℅ The Paris Review

Here’s what our team has for you to bookmark & read this week

1. You don’t need expensive powders to manage stress: the tea that we’re obsessed with for daytime and sleep that can even help manage your autoimmune pain, like it has for our Editor-in-Chief Almila

2. Can CBD Really Do All That? How one molecule from the cannabis plant
   came to be seen as a therapeutic cure-all.

3. Does Thirst Start in the Mouth or the Gut? A new study in mice reveals why consuming a beverage is usually pleasurable but is not always enough to quench thirst

4. Intersex, and Proud: Isaiah Ngwaru talks about the moment he and his wife, Betina, discovered that their child, Tatenda, was intersex.

5. How Safe Is Sunscreen? A recent study on absorption into the bloodstream has caused concern, but you should be more worried about skin cancer. And click here for our favourite sunscreen that is safe for our bodies and the reefs.

6. The 4 ‘Attachment Styles,’ and How They Sabotage Your Work-Life Balance: Our subconscious programming — developed through our youth and on into adulthood — plays a huge role in how we survive or thrive at work. Here’s how your “attachment style” may affect your office relationships.

7. Here’s what we’re cooking up this week (sans the ingredient of Sprite) with a side of this salad because Ramadan may be over but we are still on a high kick of flavours from home

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Thought of the Week

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

— Haruki Murakami