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Our May issue is here!

The Power of Play is live now on bigthink.com.

Some highlights:
⬤ The hidden cost of taking yourself seriously | Francesca Tighinean @francescapsychology
⬤ How relentless gamification causes us to optimize for the metric and not the job itself | Jonny Thomson @philosophyminis
⬤ How to use the neuroscience of gamified learning to our advantage |Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne

🎨 Tala Schlossberg @talaschlossberg

Our April issue is live!

Highlights:

⬤ How "self-healing" electric grids are keeping the lights on as climate disasters and AI demand strain the system, by Grant Mulligan

⬤ Why rest alone doesn't restore your energy (and what does), by Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne

⬤ The centuries-old dream of eating sunlight directly — and the scientists now making it real, by Thomas Moynihan

Read it on bigthink.com. Link in bio.

🎨 Vincent Romero

Our March issue, The Roots of Resilience is live now on bigthink.com.

Some of what's inside:

⬤ A neuroscientist's perspective on what happens when resilience backfires @neuranne

⬤ What we can learn from daffodils about outliving the winter @philosophyminis

⬤ How Tommy Caldwell lost a finger, survived a kidnapping, and became a rock climbing legend @tommycaldwell

Read it on bigthink.com. Link in bio.

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🎨 @rooovie

Will our modern civilization collapse? | Eric Cline @digkabri

Why you feel restless — Jonny Thomson @philosophyminis / 🎨 Sarah Soryal @insarahsbrain

Why you feel restless — Jonny Thomson @philosophyminis / 🎨 Sarah Soryal @insarahsbrain

Why you feel restless — Jonny Thomson @philosophyminis / 🎨 Sarah Soryal @insarahsbrain

Why you feel restless — Jonny Thomson @philosophyminis / 🎨 Sarah Soryal @insarahsbrain

Why you feel restless — Jonny Thomson @philosophyminis / 🎨 Sarah Soryal @insarahsbrain

Loneliness changes your DNA (Part 1) | Marvin Liyanage @marvinliyanage

How to not give a fuck | Mark Manson @markmanson

The story of a 1524 map of the Aztec capital — Frank Jacobs / 🎨 Credit: Library of Congress

The story of a 1524 map of the Aztec capital — Frank Jacobs / 🎨 Credit: Library of Congress

The story of a 1524 map of the Aztec capital — Frank Jacobs / 🎨 Credit: Library of Congress

The story of a 1524 map of the Aztec capital — Frank Jacobs / 🎨 Credit: Library of Congress

The story of a 1524 map of the Aztec capital — Frank Jacobs / 🎨 Credit: Library of Congress

The story of a 1524 map of the Aztec capital — Frank Jacobs / 🎨 Credit: Library of Congress

Are plants conscious? | Marvin Liyanage @marvinliyanage

There's more and more evidence that plant intelligence might be much more advanced than we originally thought.

"Doing less can actually make you feel more tired" — Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne / 🎨 Sarah Soryal @insarahsbrain

"Doing less can actually make you feel more tired" — Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne / 🎨 Sarah Soryal @insarahsbrain

"Doing less can actually make you feel more tired" — Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne / 🎨 Sarah Soryal @insarahsbrain

"Doing less can actually make you feel more tired" — Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne / 🎨 Sarah Soryal @insarahsbrain

"Doing less can actually make you feel more tired" — Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne / 🎨 Sarah Soryal @insarahsbrain

"Doing less can actually make you feel more tired" — Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne / 🎨 Sarah Soryal @insarahsbrain

"Doing less can actually make you feel more tired" — Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne / 🎨 Sarah Soryal @insarahsbrain

How did the Bronze Age collapse? | Eric Cline @digkabri

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