Power Nap #67
Kate's 4 favorite nostalgic movies / homemade chicken tenders that slap
In Case You Missed It
If you pack your kids' lunches, you should batch prep PB&Js and freeze them.
This running belt is so good Kate bought a second one to bring to keep in her travel bag (also great for walks!)
If you're looking for a comfy, liner free, good length pair of shorts, look no further.
Mom of 4 tip: plan super simple, comforting meals for the first few weeks back to school. Here are some ideas.
Here's a doable, fun approach to start running more. And here's Kate's favorite running playlist.
All of Kate's favorite products can be found here.
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.”
David Foster Wallace
Things We Found Interesting [Stem Edition]
What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images. Somewhere between 1% to 4% of the general population lack mental imagery, a phenomenon known as aphantasia. This means they cannot visualize things in their mind. For example, if I ask you to imagine an apple, can you see it in your mind? I'll confess, after reading this I got worked up for a few minutes thinking maybe I had aphantasia and never knew it!
Something wonderous: Engineers made small, efficient flying robots that can be used to access places people can't — for example, collapsed buildings or other search and rescue situations — by studying the complex way rhinoceros beetles' unfold their wings. As usual, nature is one step ahead of us.
An ode to prime numbers. “It is not obvious, at first glance, just how special prime numbers are. As you count, it seems like a curiosity that, say, 7 and 11 are indivisible in a way that other numbers aren’t. But the simple act of counting creates subtle and complex structures that allow anybody to glimpse the inexorable grandeur of mathematical truth.”
The chart below (which is kind of small) shows the cost of a solar panel per Watt produced from 1975-2022. The point is that technology tends to get both better and cheaper over time. Think about computers: In the 20th century, the first computers were slow and took up whole rooms. Now they are not just smaller, but also way faster. For example, a smartphone has more than 100,000 times the processing power of the computer that helped land astronauts on the moon in 1969.
Things We Devoured
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