Weekly Digest #103

Something for the weekend:

1. ‘One of the key findings of Professor Strazdins' research was men "borrowing" time from women to keep up their exercise routine’ Link

2. Clock time contra lived time and this

3. Dungeons and Dragons meets group therapy

4. The French Chef’s focus on function over style in the kitchen boosted the accessibility movement that became known as Universal Design

5. NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They’re AI, Not Human—Spiral Into Terrifying Existential Meltdown

6. ‘Each time I did research, I had to invent a new method, because the problem that arose didn’t fit into the established methodologies’ Link

7. Getting Your Period in the Age of School Shootings

8. Discipline, caregiving, and identity work of frontline professionals: Talking about the acts of compliance and resistance in the everyday practices of social workers

9. ‘In clinical and counseling psychology, there’s an ongoing debate about whether their training actually does anything. One uncomfortable finding: trainees can do just as well as fully licensed therapists’ Link

10. Beyond Michel Foucault, Beyond Peter Brown: What Did Early Christianity Destroy?

11. The New (White) Normal: Human Anatomy and the Naturalisation of White Bodies in British University Teaching, 1860–1910

12. Ontology, and the Question of Being: “We Are Not Yet Thinking”

13. Photographs of people jumping (turns out, you can’t jump and not smile)

14. The new horror of the modified body

15. Fredric Jameson’s last book The Years of Theory reviewed by Terry Eagleton