Currently Creasing: Week of June 17

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

1. Americans Eat and Inhale Over 70,000 Plastic Particles Each Year According to a New Analysis

2. Huge brain study uncovers ‘buried’ genetic networks linked to mental illness: Enormous genomic analysis yields tantalizing insights into mechanisms behind conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

3. “Climate Gentrification”: A 21st Century Problem: Climate change is starting to reshape communities. Richard Florida examines how rising waters are driving down real estate prices in low-level communities, while driving up prices in the heights.

4. We recommend watching Dalí's first film with Luis Buñuel, Un Chien Andalou., which is a 1929 silent short that emerged from a conversation the two artists had about their dreams: Buñuel had seen a cloud slicing the moon in two "like a razor blade slicing through an eye"; Dalí's dream had featured a hand crawling with ants.

5. The Hidden Link between Farm Antibiotics and Human Illness: An alarming look at the connection between feeding livestock antibiotics and the rise of food-borne outbreaks of drug-resistant bacteria.

6. A Bad Marriage Can Seriously Damage Your Health, Say Scientists: A new study finds that couples who disagree on multiple topics may experience serious negative health effects.

7. Here’s what we’re cooking up from this week nodding to the comforts from “the godmother of Indian cooking”

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Thought of the Week

“The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.”

— Salvador Dalí