Sauna: History, Culture, Health And Construction

An insightful book on Sauna.

Useful link:

https://finnmarksauna.com/products/sauna-history-culture-health-and-construction-1

Home Exchange

In order to be successful on a home-swapping platform, you need to have a place that is in an attractive market, be it in a city center or an amenity-rich rural area. The majority of the global population who do not live in a touristic destination may be out of luck. Location is everything in home swapping.

Useful link: https://www.homeexchange.com

Experience Transylvania

A precious insight into the age-old traditions.  Must visit. 

Useful link: https://www.experiencetransylvania.ro

Discover Discomfort

Learn languages. Learn foreign cultures. Learn distant destinations.

Useful link: https://discoverdiscomfort.com

Claudia Andujar

It is more than 50 years since Claudia Andujar began photographing the Yanomami, the people of the Amazon rainforest near Brazil's border with Venezuela. Now 89, she is using her archive to increase their visibility, at a time when their survival is under renewed threat. 

Useful link: https://claudia-andujar.fondationcartier.com

Artery

Teleconferencing + Videoconferencing + Gaming technology. Artery is a platform that uses technology to connect people in real life: Airbnb for culture.

Useful link: https://artery.is

Random Thoughts

In many cultures, striking up a conversation with a stranger is the norm, and could even lead to a budding friendship. But not for the Swedes. Here, small talk is seen as futile, and referred to as kallprat (cold talk) or dodprat (dead talk). To avoid ending in these situations, many Swedes have made an art of avoiding eye contact with strangers and acquaintances they might come across in the street by looking at their phones or staring at shopping windows instead. For Swedes, the purpose of talking is to exchange meaningful information, and engaging in purposeless chit-chat simply isn't valued.

The Madness Of Crowds

Get to know Douglas Murray. Must read.

Useful link:
https://douglasmurray.net

The English Word That Hasn’t Changed In Sound Or Meaning In 8,000 Years

I had no idea till now.

Useful link:
http://nautil.us/blog/the-english-word-that-hasnt-changed-in-sound-or-meaning-in-8000-years

Good As Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women

Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women features glittering treasures, gleaming coins and eye-catching jewelry and tells a rich story about the universally precious metal and its special relationship with the people of West Africa. Gold also provides an enduring link to the past in a new Sidedoor podcast that takes listeners on a journey through parts of the region. Take note.

How Imagination Will Save Our Cities

PD was spot on. Imagination works.

Useful link:
http://nautil.us/issue/70/variables/how-imagination-will-save-our-cities

Why Doing Good Makes It Easier To Be Bad

So true.

Useful link:
http://nautil.us/blog/-why-doing-good-makes-it-easier-to-be-bad

Are You A Self-Interrupter?

Over to you.

Useful link:
http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/are-you-a-self_interrupter?utm_source=frontpage&utm_medium=mview&utm_campaign=are-you-a-self_interrupter

How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games

Take a look.

Useful link:
http://nautil.us/issue/44/luck/how-designers-engineer-luck-into-video-games?utm_source=frontpage&utm_medium=mview&utm_campaign=how-designers-engineer-luck-into-video-games

Never Apart

Start something new. http://www.neverapart.com