Moonlights #28
Look ✨
Last week, NASA released images from the James Webb telescope, showing us all how vast and beautiful, and unknown our universe is.
Try 🍎
It’s that time of year…new iPhones are coming, and iOS16 hits public beta! I still enjoy trying out all the new stuff they recently announced. This year, I’m pumped for customizable wallpapers, updates to focus modes, and all the new fitness updates on the watch. Apple hasn’t drastically changed things in the past few years, but they continue to make incredible upgrades and improvements to most of their core apps. It’s impressive to watch how many quality upgrades they pack in their yearly software updates.
Read 🔖
One of my favorite things I read this week → The Science of Working Out the Body and the Soul: How the Art of Exercise Was Born, Lost, and Rediscovered. Here’s one of my favorite snippets.
When one is running, time passes differently. I can get from here to there quickly — quickness is embodied, experienced — and I can keep going. I will run until I feel tired, until I’ve had enough, and then I will go just a little farther, at which point a wave of well-being-ness washes over me. This is not coincidental. My brain is rewarding me for doing something grueling that is beneficial to my overall health — and providing an incentive to do it again. Sustained activity triggers the release of specific neurochemicals, endorphins, which have a kind of tranquilizing effect. On top of that, the body gets a deposit of human growth factor, a repairer of muscle tissue, as well as specialized proteins that, according to new research, are involved in the creation of neurons and the connections between them, synapses.
Want 🍄
Last week I came across Shrooly, an easy way to grow hard to find mushrooms right in your home. Most of the time you can only find a few variants at grocery stores, but Shrooly is offering 12 different types (Turkey Tail, Lion’s Mane, Yellow Oyster…and more). This woudl be really nice to have in the kitchen!
From Me 🎒
Another week in the books, here’s one of my favorite quotes I saw.
"The time to worry is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. To worry is to add another hazard."
— Amelia Earhart