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Reviews of relationship guides and the ever-changing love landscape.
Deconstructing Attraction: Why We Crave Strength Over Service
In the realm of modern dating and evolutionary psychology, we often use the word "love" as a catch-all term for a complex web of biological impulses and social conditioning. However, if we deconstruct the mechanics of female attraction, a different pattern emerges.
By Elena Vance 10 days ago in Humans
Roots and Fruit
Roots and Fruit Photo by Lukáš Kulla on Unsplash Most people evaluate life by what shows. Results, behavior, success, failure, growth, collapse. Fruit is easier to measure than roots, so it becomes the focus almost by default. When something goes wrong, attention rushes to what is visible and immediate. When something goes right, credit is assigned to the most recent action. But this way of seeing consistently misreads causality. Fruit is never the beginning of the story. It is the result of something that has been growing quietly, often unnoticed, for a long time.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast12 days ago in Humans
Robert Duvall Cause of Death: How Did The Godfather and Apocalypse Now Legend Die at 95?
The film world is mourning the loss of Robert Duvall, one of the most respected and quietly powerful actors in Hollywood history. After decades of iconic performances across film and television, the legendary performer passed away at the age of 95, prompting an outpouring of tributes from fans, filmmakers, and fellow actors around the world.
By Bevy Osuos15 days ago in Humans
Meteorologist
February, the month of love, black history, and then there is the rat. Adults, looking to a rodent for predictions in weather and the future of winter and spring. When on earth did that become a celebrated thing? It’s ridiculous, and yet some take it seriously.
By Alexandra Grant16 days ago in Humans
The Department of Non Education
You are scrolling through a feed, and see a question on the top of the post. We queried one hundred college students. Out of curiosity, you want to know what they asked our young educated kids. It’s a simple question really. What year what the Declaration of Independence?
By Alexandra Grant21 days ago in Humans
What the System Forces You to Become
The Question the System Replaces By the time a person has passed through employment law, healthcare coverage rules, unemployment insurance, disability determination, and benefit eligibility, the relevant question has already shifted without ever being stated out loud. It is no longer whether the system helped or failed them. It is whether they managed to remain legible long enough to survive it. Each institutional layer imposes requirements that appear reasonable when viewed in isolation, yet become coercive when experienced sequentially:
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast21 days ago in Humans
Catching Fish
Anyone who fishes, knows, there is an art to catching fish. You need the right environment and weather, the right, bait or lure, and a bit of wisdom and finesse, in the way you cast out. It’s an art really. Not everyone can catch fish, and be good at it. Then there is the whole question of ethics.
By Alexandra Grant22 days ago in Humans
