Mind reading, stuttering, web3 and the cosmos - #3
Whether in the mood for psychology, art, tech or space this week, this post has you covered
In this third edition to our newsletter, we bring you another batch of excellent content to stimulate your mind this week.
Something to listen to 🎧
This podcast episode expertly dives into why it’s easier to spot biases in others and not in ourselves, and offers useful tips on reading our own minds. It covers many fundamental psychological views in an accessible manner, and strings them into a coherent conversation on understanding others better.
Something to watch 🎬
Do you or someone you know stutter?
The German artist behind this short film does too, and he takes us on an innovative design and intellectual journey into the world of stuttering, or being ‘next to’ spoken language.
From Psyche: “… Buhr begins by addressing the audience directly, letting them know that, while all viewers are welcome, the next nine minutes are aimed at a ‘small group of people’ who might describe themselves, like him, as ‘translingual’. The film concludes with a whirlwind animated sequence dedicated to his fellow stutterers in which the characters he’s introduced are engulfed in swarms of letters. In between, several of these characters serve as metaphors for different experiences of stuttering, which those without the speech interruption might struggle to understand. Through this bookending device, Buhr gently toys with the concept of in-groups and out-groups, placing people with a less typical experience of speech at the centre, and most viewers on the outside and along for the ride…”
Something to read 🤓
This Substack by Cobie cuts straight to the point on “Wtf is web3” and examines whether it really exists or not, and in what shape it could: “In an attempt to avoid embracing this dispute’s futility, instead it might be more useful to think about what web3 could be? Do we even need to move on from web2? What is web3 solving?”
Food for thought 🤔
In light of the dazzling, humbling pictures of the old universe released by NASA’s Webb telescope recently, this article on Aeon Magazine reminds us of the critical assumptions we make about space exploration, and why they need to be challenged.
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