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Forget yoga—hallucinogenic ayahuasca is the new health cure du jour.
H.G. Wells’s BFF was editor of Nature.
Also from Nature: Wave goodbye to the 10,000-hours rule.
Neurofiction, or stories that read your brain.
Accurate AI models of existence?
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This is the Plath poem I relate the most to shavasana. You sink down, you bubble back up. The Duchess of Nothing in yoga pants.
For Carrie Frye, yoga practice and Sylvia Plath are inherently tied. She explains why in a lovely essay over at The Awl.
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A year and a half ago, I started practicing yoga because I wasn’t feeling well. I could barely touch my toes and felt very self-conscious in yoga classes, but kept practicing because I started to feel better.
I didn’t know why I was feeling better, so I went to the literature.
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