Weekly Digest #114

Something for the weekend:

1. The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy

2. Pregnancy burns 50,000 calories

3. Great scientists follow intuition and beauty, not rationality

4. Everyday mastery

5. 'The requirement that homes be built at least 21 meters apart in parts of the UK dates back to a 1902 regulation drafted by two men who determined this was closest they could be to each other before they could see the other’s nipples through their shirts Link

6. Each additional negative word in a news headline drives 2.3% more clicks

7. In 2019, the United States spent 1% of its federal budget on kidney dialysis

8. Christian R. Gelder on psychoanalysis and therapeutic culture

9. The Worlds of Existentialism – Maurice S. Friedman (1966)

10. How exercise may be the ‘most potent medical intervention ever known’

11. How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold

12. Italian village forbids residents from becoming ill

13. A curated collection of essential philosophical works

14. A Century of Human Detritus, Visualized

15. Driving the future of health with AI