Weekly Roundup: March 15, 2024
Happy Friday! I’m very much looking forward to the weekend and hope you are too. Here’s the roundup!
Quote of the week:
“I wish you endless dreams and the furious desire to realize some of them. I wish you to love what must be loved, and to forget what must be forgotten. I wish you passions. I wish you silences. I wish you birdsongs as you wake up and children’s laughter…I wish you at last to never give up the search, for adventure, life, love. For life is a wonderful adventure and no reasonable person should give it up without a tough fight. I wish you above all to be yourself, proud of being and happy, for happiness is our true destiny.” –Jacques Brel
What I’m reading:
How to Be the Love You Seek: Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships by Nicole Lepera. I think the majority of human beings could benefit from this book.
What I’m listening to:
Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra. It’s sort of a slow-burn thriller and I’m curious where it goes.
What I’m watching:
I started Season 1 of Life & Beth last night and realized halfway through the fourth episode that I’ve watched this before. Ha. It’s okay because I’m getting caught up so I can watch Season 2 (which I definitely did not watch yet because it came out last month).
Interesting things I learned this week:
Baby owls sleep face down because their heads are so heavy. I highly recommend googling photos of this because it’s adorable and hilariousA retired American diplomat named Peter Kaestner is the first person to document 10,000 bird sightingsAt Lululemon’s women’s-only 6-day ultramarathon which concluded on Tuesday, Camille Herron, age 42, ran 560.33 miles to break the 6-day women’s world recordScientists have discovered 100 new marine species in New ZealandThe American Library Association reported a record number of attempts to remove books from libraries last year. In total. 4,240 individual titles were targeted in 2023, up almost 65% from 2022. Nearly half of the challenged titles address LGBTQ+ identities and/or issues of race and racismSan Jose and San Francisco had the highest electric vehicle adoption rate among major U.S. metropolitan areas last year. EVs accounted for nearly 40% of new auto registrations in the San Jose area last year and about 34% in San FranciscoThe FDA granted breakthrough status to a medication derived from LSD for generalized anxiety disorder. A single (micro)dose showed significant results even after 12 weeks. And it shows promise even for anxiety that has resisted other treatmentsA gray whale, extinct in the Atlantic Ocean for 200 years, was spotted off the coast of Massachusetts. And scientists from the University of Texas at El Paso photographed a Yellow-crested Helmetshrike, a “lost bird” that hadn’t been seen for two decades, in the Democratic Republic of the CongoWeirdest thing I googled this week:
“earth sandwich.” I saw something on Instagram about how these two guys on exact opposite sides of the globe put a piece of bread to the ground at the exact same time to create an Earth sandwich. This sounded so ridiculous that I had to look it up and, yes, it actually happened: A guy in New Zealand put a piece of bread on the ground, and at the exact same time, a guy in Spain—on the exact opposite point of Earth—also put a piece of bread on the ground. You can read more about this endeavor here.
What I’m grateful for:
Life is really good right now. I feel super grateful every day. Here are a few things that stood out this week:
Snapshots:
From top to bottom: A beautiful park day last weekend; yoga with cats (all the kittens in this litter are named after chefs; this one is Anthony Bourdain haha); gorgeous run views this morning.
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