Daily bread 12/20/2025

• Six centuries of secularity began with the first ‘how-to’ books | Aeon Essays

  • to reorient alchemy’s goals away from grand, deluded schemes and toward everyday concerns.
    • Love this sentence...reminds me of "100 years of solitude" by Gabo Garcia Marquez

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Daily bread 12/06/2025

• Science needs disagreement. What makes some disagreement useless? | Aeon Essays

  • pernicious

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Daily bread 12/02/2025

• Bridging pedagogy and technology: a generative AI and IoT approach to transformative English language education | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

  • Spoken English proficiency is not only a critical measure of language competency but also a key determinant of success in academic, professional, and social contexts.

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Daily bread 10/14/2025

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Daily bread 07/28/2025

• Nosy coworkers can spike your stress levels - Futurity

  • a common office menace
  • the nosy coworker
  • loiter
  • chitchat
  • to duck for cover
  • prying and obtrusive
  • blurry lines
  • the 9-to-5 crowd
  • a thorny problem
  • workplace nosiness
  • has come up with
  • they spotted it
  • sparked my interest in
  • eroding boundaries between professional and personal lives
  • burnout and stress
  • gossip/drama
  • to weasel out details about
  • hostile biases
  • in and of themselves
  • pulling down the shutters
  • rife with prying colleagues
  • vying for an advantage over
  • is something he’d like to do more of.
  • being overly curious about

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Daily bread 07/15/2025

• How Nazism ended centuries of Catholic-Protestant enmity | Aeon Essays

  • the enmity between Catholics and Protestants
  • the two confessions
  • hegemony
  • ecumenical
  • invectives
  • Eugenics

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Daily bread 07/04/2025

• What’s so awkward about an awkward silence? | Aeon Essays

  • the sort of silences that leave most people writhing
  • the unnerving habit of thinking before he spoke
  • someone who made such an ‘unnerving’ use of silence
  • Chinese negotiators are trained to draw out silences in order to provoke their writhing Western counterparts into making concessions.
  • Chinese negotiators are trained to draw out silences in order to provoke their writhing Western counterparts into making concessions.
  • Silence, as the saying goes, speaks volumes.
  • In many (or even most) cases, we would rather quietly endure the norm-violating behaviour than create awkwardness by challenging it.

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Daily bread 07/02/2025

• Order Confirmation - NZ Online Pharmacy

  • Mega Magnesium Pow

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Daily bread 06/23/2025

• I use this 'blank line' prompt every day now — here’s why | Tom's Guide

  • “One idea no one’s thought of yet for solving this problem is ___”

• 5 ChatGPT Prompts That Force ChatGPT To Think 10x Deeper

  • "Based on what you know about my business goals and challenges, generate three distinct strategies for [specific business challenge]. For each strategy, include the primary benefits, potential drawbacks, and implementation requirements. After providing all three options, rank them from most to least effective for my specific situation, explaining the key trade-offs that influenced your ranking."
  • "Challenge your thinking by identifying potential blind spots, questioning key assumptions, and offering alternative perspectives I might not have considered."
  • "I've developed a plan for [describe your plan]. Based on what you know about successful approaches in this area, create and apply an expert success checklist to evaluate my plan. For each criterion on your checklist, explain why it matters, assess how well my plan addresses it, and suggest specific improvements where needed. Focus on factors that most directly influence success or failure."

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Daily bread 06/22/2025

• Why Do Non-Americans Refer to “Z” as “Zed”? - Word Smarts

  • align with
  • the English-speaking world
  • feet instead of yards
  • own unique way of doing things
  • Fahrenheit instead of Celsius
  • identity extends to
  • borrowed that letter from
  • which in turn inspired
  • was adopted as
  • may have to do with
  • shortly after declaring independence
  • trying to create a unique identity
  • to standardize
  • his conception of
  • differed from
  • was solidified
  • you likely know it as
  • in his lyrics
  • came shortly before it
  • has been used to
  • has become fully entrenched in
  • it more closely aligns with

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Daily bread 06/13/2025

• The short, dramatic history of alien abduction in the US | Aeon Essays

  • But, in

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Daily bread 06/12/2025

• Should Ethiopian philosophy be universalist or Africanist? | Aeon Essays

  • the works of the French historian Anaïs Wion and the Ethiopian politician Daniel Kibret, I abandoned that position.

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Daily bread 06/04/2025

• Midweek Sanity Oasis: How We Render Reality and Attention as an Instrument of Love

  • we live out our lives in a subjective reality defined by what we agree to attend to
  • we live largely in the territory of the unanswerable because there is no pure attention — the aperture of our attention is constricted by myriad conditionings and focused by a brain honed on millions of years of evolutionary necessities, many of which we have long outgrown.
  • “the very brain mechanisms which succeed in simplifying the world so as to subject it to our control militate against a true understanding of it,”
  • to braid neuropsychology (the way our brains shape our impression of reality), epistemology (the way we come to know anything at all), and metaphysics (our yearning to wrest meaning from fundamental truth as we try to discern the nature of the universe)
  • “love is the quality of attention we pay to things.”
  • The world we experience — which is the only one we can know — is affected by the kind of attention we pay to it.
  • “attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity,”
  • “the type, and extent, of attention we pay changes the nature of the world that we experience,”

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Daily bread 05/23/2025

• Cultural expectations and leadership | LearnEnglish

  • cultural
  • Despite their friendliness,
  • satisfactorily

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Daily bread 05/09/2025

• Taste-testing The Latest Non-alcoholic Drinks | Vogue

  • While quitting booze might save marriages and internal organs, it is worth noting that it does not save money.
  • “Who will ever relate the whole history of narcotica? It is almost the history of culture.”

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Daily bread 03/30/2025

• Language Learning: It’s all about Confidence – Sincerely, Spain

  • the person who tends to be the ‘best’ when it comes to communicating is the person who is willing to break out of his or her shell and just go for, taking advantage of every opportunity to practice.
  • Try to do something that you like and know you are good at and pair it with your language learning. If you are a singer, go to karaoke, if you are a dancer, go out dancing. Anything from doing yoga to playing football to painting can be turned into a way to speak a language with confidence because you already know that you are good at one of the two activities.

• Self-talk, Self-compassion, and Success in Language Learning - Therapy In Barcelona

  • With today’s fabulous technology, we can emulate this process for our language learning by listening to native speakers in podcasts, films, TV, radio, YouTube, etc. and copying what we hear, always led by our own curiosity to learn how different words or groups of words are put together in sentences. It has never been easier to learn a language by immersion, even for people who don’t have the obvious immersion advantage
  • Perfection is a Ridiculous Goal: Let It Go
  • start noticing all the things that are going well in our language learning, instead of focusing on the mistakes, the discomfort, and difficulties.
  • develop more positive self-talk so you can stop holding yourself back and reach your fullest potential
  • Focus on Progress, Not Perfection

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Daily bread 01/30/2025

• Vacations offer longer-lasting benefits than previously thought - Futurity

  tags: australia

  • well-being benefits
  • head back to work
  • a steeper decline
  • you didn’t fully unplug while off the clock
  • The meta-analysis of
  • the positive effects of annual leave
  • take time off
  • rest and recuperation
  • makes a difference in how restorative your time off is
  • psychologically disengaged from work
  • anything that gets your heart rate up
  • once they’re back to reality
  • can ease the transition back into work mode

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