The first podcast that hooked me was 99% Invisible. They’ve just celebrated their nine-year anniversary (congrats!) with yet another engrossing episode. This time about the psychology of waiting. And - one of my favorite things - the notion of radical transparency. Which helps reduce anxiety, among other things. For the frustrated worker sitting behind a slow computer, the commuter waiting for a train or a resident wondering when the city will tear down an abandoned property. Definitely worth listening to.
Five more items that have inspired me recently:
- Jennifer Gunter: ‘Women are being told lies about their bodies’
- A Curator Has Moved a Forest to a Soccer Stadium as a Warning About Climate Change. Here Is a First Look at the Epic Artwork: The Swiss curator Klaus Littmann has turned the artist Max Peintner’s dystopian vision of the 1970s into a spectacular work of Land Art. More pics: Forest grows in the middle of Wörthersee Football Stadium in Klagenfurt.
- Beyond cover-ups. “These Flower Tattoos with Black Backgrounds Turn Limbs into Elegant Works of Art” Beautiful, but I wonder how they will age.
- Article: We should all be reading more Ursula Le Guin - Her novels imagine other worlds, but her theory of fiction can help us better live in this one.
- My hearing problems + sensory issues mean noisy restaurants are a no-go for me. Seems I’m not the only one. Thankful for this Dear Dara local restaurant roundup. Quiet Please! Aren’t there any great restaurants where you can have a quiet chat? How about 10?
On the home front, we have settled in nicely. Nearly everything is already in its place. We continue to refine. Reorganizing cupboards and closets. Today I unpacked a few more bins (there aren’t many left) and hung the remaining art that was waiting for its wall spot. It’s strange to think I spent the bulk of the summer wishing I could fast forward - through all the tough work of moving - to this very week and here I am! Home. Where I may have binge-watched Carnival Row this weekend.
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The meeting I had on Friday that kept me from going to the climate march was for a teachers “community of practice” around the book “Transparent Design in Higher Education” — students who work on radically transparent assignments (ones that explain the purpose of the assignment, the tasks to be done, the criteria for success in a very clear and transparent way) are much likelier to succeed. The authors did a study where a group of students were given just 2 “transparent” assignments during a semester, and they were 50% more likely to be retained (to sign up for classes the next semester)!!!
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