Pediatricians now recommend drugs and surgery for kids with obesity - Ars Technica

This article makes me sad. Feels like we are addressing symptoms / outputs of a system and not the upstream problems. It must be insanely hard to be a teenager and need a surgical solution. ❤️

Bingo! 📷

Late meals can have an impact on the quality of your sleep. Not only how late you eat, but what you eat makes an impact.

Last night our family had Crumbl cookies. The hit of sugar before spiked my heart rate and didn’t give me the recovery I was hoping for. Instead of my heart rate lowering as I began to sleep it increased as my body digested the sugary meal.

Enjoy cookies but understand their impact. It gives a new meaning to sweat dreams.

Do spiders dream?

She soon found they experience periods of rapid retinal movement, which increased in duration and frequency throughout the night, lasting about 77 seconds and happening approximately every 20 minutes. It was during these REM-like periods that Rößler observed uncoordinated body movements—their abdomens wiggled, their legs curled or uncurled.

… and

“Occasionally, there are things happening that I can only explain with the theory of them having a nightmare,” Rößler says. They’ll be peacefully dangling, legs curled by in neatly, when suddenly “all the legs get extended at the same time, like aah!”

National Geographic : Do spiders dream? A new study suggest they do.

This weekend I finished the 10th season of The Great British Baking Show on Netflix. What makes this show great is they do not architect the contestants for conflict. There are no overt egos or challenges that explicitly take down other contestants. Everyone has a joy for baking and puts their best foot forward. Refreshing.

Two Easily Remembered Questions That Silence Negative Thoughts | Anthony Metivier | TEDxDocklands

  • Are my thoughts useful?
  • How do they behave?

From Gary Weber’s books “Happiness Beyond Thought: A Practical Guide to Awakening” and “Evolving Beyond Thought: Updating Your Brain’s Software”

Opened the board game Sagrada from last Christmas. Strategy game where you try not to paint yourself into a corner. Fun and quick play. Recommended. 🕹️