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What makes airships in Miyazaki's films so fascinating? — youtube.com

Looks like sleeping really helps solve problems: “In the evening, we presented 57 participants with puzzles, each arbitrarily associated with a different sound. While participants slept overnight, half of the sounds associated with the puzzles they had not solved were surreptitiously presented. The next morning, participants solved 31.7% of cued puzzles, compared with 20.5% of uncued puzzles (a 55% improvement)” — marginalrevolution.com

Some clues as to why people perceive colour so differently — nautil.us

When asked about the invasion of privacy (and other dystopian perspectives) that the computer age carries, 26 year old Steve Jobs' answer was a computer literate society (this was in 1981). Today, it's a social media literate society we need — openculture.com

Cormac McCarthy's tips for better writing — nature.com

On the emergence of the passion economy: making money from doing something you love (writing a newsletter, teaching, videos). I liked their post-capitalist term the enterprization of consumer — a16z.com

In the organ and skin transplant context, companies have been harvesting body parts (from dead people) before police investigations could be over, creating some kind of a conundrum — latimes.com

Removing freeways from cities might solve a whole lot of problems — nextcity.org

This is the Sundry Newsletter. It is a distillation of what I read every week: society, fun facts, history, business, science, branding, art, etc. Thank you for reading — Ulysse Sabbag.