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The science of a good scare

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Here for the Fear
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Mia Quagliarello,
Head of Creator Community and Newsletters, Flipboard
Today’s newsletter is brimming with the Halloween spirit, starting with an investigation into the relationship between enjoyment and fear. (Mild horror, say researchers, can help foster lasting psychological resilience.) If Mother Nature commissioned H. R. Giger to design a plant, it would be the “life-consuming” carnivorous Nepenthes. Oomancy is the art of using eggs to interpret the future. Classic goth albums soundtrack it all.
Why we enjoy fear: the science of a good scare
The Guardian · Katherine Latham
Palms sweat, heartbeat quickens, muscles tense. Your skin prickles and stomach churns. When fear subsides, we can be left with feelings of pleasure. Is…
How far-right views became the new edgy aesthetic
DAZED · Günseli Yalcinkaya
Earlier this month, Kanye West officially declared his allegiance to alt-right pundits and conspiracy nuts when he sent a White Lives Matter t-shirt…
Uvalde survivor is a voice for her slain friends. She’s 10 years old.
The Washington Post · John Woodrow Cox
UVALDE, Tex. She had clipped a white bow into her hair and slipped on a yellow shirt embellished with a butterfly, and now, an hour before meeting her…
Visualized: Who Americans Spend Their Time With
visualcapitalist.com · Avery Koop
Throughout history, humans have relied on cooperation and social relationships to thrive. Of course, who we spend time with evolves throughout our …
When a Houseplant Obsession Becomes a Nightmare
Wired · Brian Howey
Some of us just can’t resist the allure of the carnivorous Nepenthes. They’re beautiful, rare, and in every way life-consuming. Your monstera is …
Keep Your Bird-Watching—I’m a Spider Man
Outside Magazine · By: Ted Genoways
My first spider—the one that started all this—was black, with a head like a garden shovel’s blade and eight beady eyes that all but disappeared against…
The Long, Extremely Witchy History of Telling the Future With Eggs
Atlas Obscura · Diana Hubbell
From ancient Greece to the Salem Witch Trials. Shortly before his death in 1700, John Hale, a Puritan reverend from Beverly, Massachusetts, decided to …
The Sioux Chef uses only native ingredients, but isn’t ‘cooking like it’s 1491’
NPR · Sam Briger
At the James Beard Award-winning restaurant Owamni in Minneapolis, diners order off a menu that’s been “decolonized.” All dishes are prepared in ways…
“The Anti-Woodstock ’99”: An Oral History of the Tibetan Freedom Concert
Pitchfork · Marc Hogan
By the mid-1990s, the Beastie Boys had grown from New York City hip-hop scamps into alternative icons. Their concerns were growing in scope, too. Where…
Classic Goth’s 13 Greatest Albums
brooklynvegan.com · Bill Pearis
Goth means a lot of things these days, and can encompass everything from emo to EDM to straight-up pop to just someone who only wears black. But …
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