At NPSC we know that one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy is to learn new things. Unfortunately, with all of the information available to us, it can feel almost impossible to find the time to sift through the web to find the gems.
So, we’ve decided to do it for you! Every Friday, you can find five new articles or videos from the week that will stretch your mind, fuel your spirit, and feed your brain.
“Yazidi Women Finally Go To School, Defying Former ISIS Rulers — And Their Own Parents” by Jane Arraf, npr.org
“Before ISIS, the Yazidi community in Sinjar was one of the poorest and most underdeveloped groups in Iraq. In some villages, it was considered improper for girls to go to school. But now, young Yazidi women like Hussin have resolved to take their future into their own hands.”
“Is there really such a thing as ‘muscle memory’? For example, in the sense of your fingers remembering where the keys of the keyboard are?” by Quora.com, mentalfloss.com
“Women Were Better Represented in Victorian Novels Than Modern Ones” by Kat Eschner, smithsonianmag.com
“Since the birth of modern English-language novels in the 1700s, male and female characters from Paul Atreides to Elizabeth Bennet have laughed, grinned, felt and acted through their pages. A new study conducted using a machine learning algorithm has offered fresh perspective on their histories.”
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be: But how many ideas did Shakespeare himself ‘borrow’?” by Brandon A. Weber, bigthink.com
“In the new book, authors Dennis McCarthy and June Schlueter establish the links between The Bard and a man named George North, who wrote an unpublished manuscript titled, ‘A Brief Discourse Of Rebellion And Rebels.’”
“How to Get by in a Country Where You Don’t Know the Language” by Shivani Vora, nytimes.com
“Not knowing the local language is no reason not to travel. Here are some tips to get by from someone who does it all the time.”
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