Finished the Queen’s Gambit and at a loss? You can now play chess against Beth Harmon (well, a virtual Beth bot). There’s seven ages/playing strengths for you to match your wits with
This tribute to Helen Reddy’s I Am Woman performed by a powerhouse suite of female Australian singers (and intro’d by Julia Gillard) at the ARIAs will send shivers down your spine
Hard relate to this piece in the New Yorker by the wonderful Helen Rosner about suffering culinary burnout: “I’ve made hundreds of dishes for hundreds of meals. And I am so bored. I am so tired. In theory, I love to cook. But I am so, so sick of cooking.”
Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes from the wildly popular High Low podcast have announced the show is finishing up next month after four years on air. They’ve announced one last live event on Dec 8th – and in excellent news for all us southern hemisphere folk, the stream will be available 48 hours after the event. All proceeds will go to Blood Cancer UK
You meet your 18 year old self. You’re allowed to say three words. What do you say?
How the pandemic has changed the nature of friendship (“I miss the ease of just seeing whomever I want, whenever I want—though I’ve also realized how infrequently I used to see my closest friends. The joy of a restaurant dinner has been overwhelmed by the logistics of safety, the concern of exposure. My friendships still form the center of my emotions, but not my physical life. Now they occupy the spatial margins.”)
What it’s like to have Covid and lose your sense of smell
A hot take on why we should ignore all those '“female” email rules (after all, it’s nice to be nice)
Queen Elizabeth gives the best bad advice
This piece in the New York Times about a journalist who spent two weeks living inside the Facebook accounts of two middle-aged Americans is utterly fascinating (“In mid-October I asked two people I’d never met to give me their Facebook account passwords for three weeks leading up to and after Election Day. I wanted to immerse myself in the feeds of a type of person who has become a trope of sorts in our national discussion about politics and disinformation: baby boomers with an attachment to polarising social media.”)
Oh good, teens are sharing shoplifting tips on TikTok now
“I spent my twenties seeking passion and validation, only to realise in my thirties that what matters the most is acceptance.”
This video of the home office of the future, filmed in 1967, is eerily accurate
Spend a moment in nature (or in the rain, or at the beach)
