• On the merits of silence (I wholeheartedly agree): http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/opinion/sunday/im-thinking-please-be-quiet.html

• Given the previous results on humans’ sense of physical location, I’m not particularly surprised that you can make yourself identify your body as being somewhere other than where it really is: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/visualized-heartbeat-can-trigger-out-of-body-experience.html

• Aaand the future arrives: http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/08/27/researcher-controls-colleagues-motions-in-1st-human-brain-to-brain-interface

• Another reason why Finland is amazing: http://web.archive.org/web/20150302131427/http://neomam.com/blog/there-is-no-homework-in-finland

• A thought-provoking story: WebCite version

• On the “mundane magics” kind of lines: http://i.imgur.com/hINj1xf.png

• Not sure what to make of this - I actually can’t remember who narrated Paddington in the audio-books of my youth: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24077834

• This links in heavily with the thesis of the book Flow, which I’m reading at the moment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/09/13/being-poor-changes-your-thinking-about-everything/

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