6 Steps to Turn Regret Into Self-Improvement
Plus: the most senseless environmental crime of the 20th century
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Katie’s top pick of the week
6 Steps to Turn Regret Into Self-Improvement
Jennifer Taitz, New York Times
Stop beating yourself up, and turn your emotions into action.
The week’s best gentle reads
The Most Senseless Environmental Crime of the 20th Century
Charles Homans, Pacific Standard
Fifty years ago 180,000 whales disappeared from the oceans without a trace, and researchers are still trying to make sense of why. Inside the most irrational environmental crime of the century.
Why Leonardo da Vinci’s brilliance endures, 500 years after his death
Claudia Kalb, National Geographic
His creativity and foresight in science, engineering, and the arts continue to surprise and amaze today.
The dancing species: how moving together in time helped make us human
Kimerer LaMothe, Aeon Ideas
To build brains and bodies capable of relationships, humans needed to move: dance shaped our culture and created the mind.
Our bonus best read from France’s Le Monde:
Precariousness, forced work, life expectancy… a look at France’s inequalities
What income gap between rich and poor? What is the difference between graduates and non-graduates? Young or old, who are worse off? Are women or foreigners still disadvantaged? In response to these questions that shake society and underpin the “yellow vests” movement, the Observatory of Inequalities - an association of experts and researchers - published its third report on inequalities in France.
Photo of the week
A boy born in Queens has dinner with a real-life Queen… We know Trump met the Queen for the first time last year during his quick visit to the UK, but this time round he was received with all the pomp and glamour imaginable - including a state banquet.
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