Weekly Digest #170

Something for the weekend:

1. Free Healing: Pop-up clinics for the uninsured

2. The Ancient Art of Nasal Rinsing Might Protect You From a Cold

3. Progress made on AI-powered humanoid robots

4. Adamson’s “Rules” for Writing Philosophy

5. Jacques Lacan: First writings

6. Make Something Heavy: We’re creating more than ever, but it weighs nothing

7. A philosopher’s case for living playfully without keeping score

8. Language in Sport: Real-Time Talk in Training and Games

9. Abstinence From AI Is Not the Answer and this

10. How Our Treatment of Human Skeletons Reveals the Politics of the Body

11. Groundbreaking visuals capture how our bodies repair damaged DNA

12. Has modern neuroscience proved Freud right?

13. ‘Everything we see and touch day to day conspires to shape our moods. When places are too antiseptic, we grow unaccustomed to noticing visceral details. We start to use less of our senses. Over time, our surface for pleasure thins’ Link

14. Object-Oriented Ontology and the Nature of Reality with Graham Harman

15. Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books