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Are You Taking Fun Seriously Enough?

Are You Taking Fun Seriously Enough? The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos · sourceSource: The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos — pdrl.fm

Dropping the Mask

Dropping the Mask Hidden Brain · sourceSource: Hidden Brain — hiddenbrain.org

Why Is the Internet So Afraid of Sex?

Oh no, what if you saw 69's me and he calls back, you know, so it was this like cheat for finding out who was calling you. And it was, of course, it had like a dirty name, you know, even though. Not just a…

Why Is the Internet So Afraid of Sex?

…I want to spend more time talking about. I mean, you, luckily, you started a newsletter that allows you to have an outlet for some of this. Um, so you're you're distilling some of this wisdom in the newsletter, uh, it's called Dearest Star 69,…

They may have upgraded the average skill set of software teams in a way we have not seen before. So why does software keep getting worse across the board? A few examples from last week alone: My banking app requires, on average, three FaceID logins…

Why Is the Internet So Afraid of Sex?

…oh, ha ha, you must enjoy beating men in dungeons. So yes, and I have to deal with SEO. Yeah, well, it's just funny when everyone was, we had to be inside. I watched all these DOMs have to completely rearrange their business plans. No…

Why Is the Internet So Afraid of Sex?

…have a bunch of people in their 20s. You have to look at your audience. So, They're like, well, we need, we need someone in the middle in case there's like 40 year olds in the audience who don't want to talk about Tinder. you…

Why Is the Internet So Afraid of Sex?

…pretty popular. He did a show and he bombed. And he actually did one of my shows. I put on a show in my neighborhood. And, you know, I was like, oh, I'm so sorry that didn't go well. And he's like, it doesn't matter…

The Calm Is Over: Cancun Airport Rebounds To Over 500 Flights In A Single Day

Go Carry On Only If You Can If you can manage to fit your swimsuits and flip flops into a single carry on bag, absolutely do it. During these massive peak travel weekends, the wait times at the baggage claim carousels can easily swell to…

The Calm Is Over: Cancun Airport Rebounds To Over 500 Flights In A Single Day

escapes. Surviving The Peak Season Airport Rush Because the airport is already hitting these massive peak season numbers in early November, travelers arriving over the next few months need to be totally prepared for a highly crowded airport experience. escapes. → https://expedia.com/affiliate/j8DgvYQ Cancun Sun ·…

The Calm Is Over: Cancun Airport Rebounds To Over 500 Flights In A Single Day

Over a single weekend, the Cancun International Airport recorded an absolutely massive 953 scheduled flights. On Saturday, November 7, they hit a maximum of 500 flights in a single day. That figure completely shatters any doubt about a tourism slowdown and proves a massive rebound…

This Will Be The World’s Biggest Park

King Salman Park will break records in Riyadh. King Salman Park is reshaping life in Saudi Arabia and American firm Parsons is helping them do it. To find out how, click here: https://bit.ly/4jZZVvX https://bit.ly/4jZZVvX The B1M · sourceSource: The B1M — youtube.com · This Will…

Why Is the Internet So Afraid of Sex?

…media creators and sect educators and it was just, You know, you see, like, you can't even say the word sex on Instagram. You have to like blur it out or you have to say, you know, S slash slash X or like SEGs or…

Why Is the Internet So Afraid of Sex?

…talk about their lack of financial rights. They want to talk about government policy, about foster Sesta. That helped me get in with them as more of a trusted person because I wasn't just in it to talk about, you know, the, The whips and…

When Idaho Banned Abortion, OB-GYNs Fled. The Doctors Who Stayed Are Cracking.

"Since last October, the families of every fallen soldier have been offered post-mortem sperm retrieval." Longreads · sourceSource: Longreads — longreads.com

In 1984, a team led by Dr. Norman Rosenthal, then a researcher at the National I

In 1984, a team led by Dr. Norman Rosenthal, then a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, first described SAD and coined the term. "I believe that because it is easy to remember, the acronym has stuck," he said. Scientists are trying to understand…

What Meta’s documents showed On Nov. 6, 2025, Reuters reported on internal Meta

What Meta's documents showed On Nov. 6, 2025, Reuters reported on internal Meta documents showing the company expected roughly $16 billion, or about 10% of its 2024 revenue, to flow in from ads pushing scams and prohibited products. By Meta's own internal count, users across…

More Kneads Bakery Signage Up in Logan Circle By Prince Of Petworth Published No

More Kneads Bakery Signage Up in Logan Circle By Prince Of Petworth Published November 4, 2026 at 8:25AM 15th and P Street, NW Thanks to all who sent the new KNEADS bakery signage up at the old Duron paint store. Prince Of Petworth → https://www.popville.com/author/prince-of-petworth/…

photo by Miki Jourdan From the U.S. National Arboretum: “This year marks 50 year

photo by Miki Jourdan From the U.S. National Arboretum: "This year marks 50 years of bonsai at the U.S. National Arboretum's (USNA) National Bonsai & Penjing Museum in Washington, DC. The museum opened its doors as part of the 1976 Bicentennial festivities and is the…

Aspiring astronauts have between now and Dec. 3 to submit their applications. NA

Aspiring astronauts have between now and Dec. 3 to submit their applications. NASA expects to make its final selection by late 2027, with the new candidates beginning their training by early 2028 — the same year that NASA intends to return astronauts to the lunar…

Traditions vary by region but commonly include lights, fireworks, feasting, new

Traditions vary by region but commonly include lights, fireworks, feasting, new clothes and prayers. In southern India, many people take an early morning bath with warm oil to symbolize bathing in the holy River Ganges for physical and spiritual purification. In the north, worship centers…

com • Acclaimed Savannah restaurateurs Mashama Bailey and Johno Morisano will op

com • Acclaimed Savannah restaurateurs Mashama Bailey and Johno Morisano will open two restaurants in DC: The Diner Bar by the Grey will open in the JW Marriott in December, and the Grey on Penn, a more upscale eatery, will follow next spring. will open…

A federal judge halted construction on President Trump’s planned 250-foot-high T

A federal judge halted construction on President Trump's planned 250-foot-high Triumphal Arch near Arlington Cemetery not long after the National Capital Planning Commission, which the President has packed with supporters, approved it. (NYT) US District Judge Tanya Chutkan cited the "sheer improbability" of the administration's…

DC Fiscal Policy Institute released a new report finding that Black residents ha

DC Fiscal Policy Institute released a new report finding that Black residents have borne the brunt of the recent downturn in the local economy. Black median income fell while white income remained statistically unchanged, and federal layoffs affected Black and brown workers most, sending them…

Mayor-elect Janeese Lewis George wants to give the DC government a closer look —

Mayor-elect Janeese Lewis George wants to give the DC government a closer look — maybe even checking desk by desk. She's proposing audits of some city agencies (similar to Mamdani's strategy) to find budget savings, cut red tape, and hopefully improve city services proposing audits…

It may be more fruitful to read the Tuxtepec Revolution as a continuation of the

It may be more fruitful to read the Tuxtepec Revolution as a continuation of the struggle between centralism and federalism that had characterized Mexican politics since the country's earliest days of independence. Díaz's partisans were largely regional leaders who stayed in power by remaining closely…

The straw that broke the camel’s back was the president’s September 1875 announc

The straw that broke the camel's back was the president's September 1875 announcement of his intention to stand for reelection the next year. In March 1876, a group of pro-Díaz military officers and intellectuals proclaimed the Plan of Tuxtepec in the Oaxaca town of Villa…

King Scorpion in the Kitchen

How a few village kids casually nailing a pose I'd bled for cracked my whole relationship to seriousness.

Individualized Sequencing in Ashtanga Yoga

Individualized Sequencing in Ashtanga Yoga — **Introduction** Hello!