Learned helplessness occurs when an individual continuously faces a negative, uncontrollable situation and stops trying to change their circumstances, even when they have the ability to do so. For example, a smoker may repeatedly try and fail to quit. He may grow frustrated and come to believe that nothing he does will help, and...
This is 2 years old, it scares me how much worse it could be by now and what the future holds.
What happened in the Sixties? How did singers of popular music transform from mere entertainers to the poetic bards of their generation? Were these songs literature? If so, what does that mean? And if not, what exactly are they? In this episode, Jacke talks to the authors of a new book, Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular...
Now I didn't expect plastic shoes to be good footwear for football!
Discovered on lemmy
Imo the best utilization of AI yet. I'll try to find and link the ezra klein podcast episode on the topoc as well.
This is one of my favorite short stories ever. I love the feeling of this story even if isn't perfectly analyzable.
An article on the Google Ngram Viewer, etymonline btw is one of my favourite online resources.
Paywalled, please use the 'bypass paywalls clean d' addon on firefox.
This I share more for the bizarre phenomenon and less for the article itself
I know I post a lot of new yorker stuff. I'm sorry I seem to like it a lot more than anything else (minus their political stuff)
The ending genuinely scared me here, it's the same old we talk about. But still hard hitting.
