life advisory
The lost art of breathing
Do you breathe through your nose at all times? Are you breathing too fast or too shallow? NPR has an illuminating piece on breathing the right way—and the enormous impact it has on your physical and mental wellness.
The lockdown no-reading list
Many of us made big plans to read loads of books during the lockdown—get cracking on that tsundoku list of unread books lying by the bedside table. Quartz explains why so many of us failed. And it offers a very handy guide to help you start reading again!
Your dog wants to rescue you
We know dogs can be trained to rescue humans, but does your paratha-begging pooch have any interest in helping out when you are in distress? A new study tested 60 pets by putting their humans in a box. The happy result:
“What’s fascinating about this study is that it shows that dogs really care about their people. Even without training, many dogs will try and rescue people who appear to be in distress — and when they fail, we can still see how upset they are. The results from the control tests indicate that dogs who fail to rescue their people are unable to understand what to do — it’s not that they don’t care about their people.”
So you wanna watch something…
- Mashable put together a list of 17 amazing and free documentaries on YouTube. Given the current state of America, we recommend starting with Ava DuVernay’s ‘13th’.
- The entire cast of The Lord of the Rings gathered on Zoom for a reunion—and it makes for 50 minutes of excellent viewing. Also excellent, the event title: ‘One Zoom to Rule Them All’
- Highly recommended by our founding member Shadab Arab: Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby’s new Netflix special ‘Douglas’. Watch the trailer below!
