Gazing up at a deciduous oak isn’t some enchanted solution to everyone’s problems, of course. But, where the recency illusion is concerned, connecting with the physical world we were made for opens up a tiny mental wormhole, allowing us to recast time for just long enough to remember that a headline in your feed is not a predator in the bushes or crop circle in your backyard. With that spare glint of awareness, we can determine with better clarity if a piece of news is more deserving of our precious time and cognitive resources than the one we were worried about yesterday. I’m convinced we
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