Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 week agoThe Power of Negative Thinking for Athletic Performance
Imagery focused on negative possibilities can enhance performance and emotional regulation in challenging situations.
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fromThe Atlantic
2 months agoForbearance
A little rice? A little soup? I'd rather die reading the early texts you sent about my breasts. I wouldn't take a picture- infidelity!- and so instead had conjured them with words, for which, with words, you gave me back a tongue we dragged across the skin of common thought. Such is our lot, our shared disease or gift. Like Bernini's angels propped somewhere in Rome
fromThe Nation
3 months agoFear of Nothing
February 2026 issue.When I was a child I was terrifiedof the space between One and Zero vast as the ages before my birthstrait as my death-late at night I heard my parents arguinglovingly in their locked room, the angora cat coming homewith a sparrow in her mouth, and the raindrops on the shinglescounting themselves-how to sleep, how to cross the empty placebetween the name "sparrow" and that limp thing crying,adamant, creating me with its cry
Writing
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months agoPoem of the week: Down on the canal on Christmas Day by Chris McCabe
Down on the canal on Christmas Day Down on the canal on Christmas Day a man walks towards me out of water-light, upright, Cratchit-wrapped, a smile to say: I know you. Hello Chris. Ghost in a time-ripped landscape where a low solstice sun spills whisked through a metallic staircase. With joy, the man's smile haunts me for miles a long blasted path, where a dead rat's belly festoons its purple crinoline Christmas hat.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months agoPoem of the week: Solitude by Peter McDonald
The gannet I found stranded in a car-park, something all wrong with its wings and its head too heavy for the neck to bear, beautiful bird, beautiful ugly bird. * Not the street-parties day and night tomorrow, but the morning after that, and the bin-men redding up shredded pieces of palm-trees like the debris of enormous wings. * The gannet's eyes, the gannet's big clown-face.
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fromForbes
9 months agoHow AI Is Changing E-Commerce
Impressive imagery coupled with authenticity is crucial for communicating sustainability.
Consumers demand genuine corporate sustainability commitments and clear actions.
Authentic representation in sustainability imagery must reflect diverse communities affected by climate change.
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