I’m currently reading Daniel Levitin’s The Organized Mind, which helps understand how our brain copes with all the information we take in and how to improve our brains. Then I came across this quote: Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca […]
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Why the Breaking Bad finale broke new ground for ‘event TV’ (spoiler free)
Along with tens of thousands of people in the UK, I watched the finale of Breaking Bad on Monday. Without spoiling anything for those still working their way through earlier series, I can say that it was unanimously ackowledged to be a thoroughly satisfying ending for a popular and critically-acclaimed show. But – in the UK at least – what […]
Read moreWhy we all secretly prefer an untidy end to a story
Last night, the first series of acclaimed French drama The Returned finished its run on C4. The anticipation had been building for weeks, as question after question was raised about why dead people had come back to the Alpine town? Unsurprisingly, to me at any rate, the finale provided some answers, but ultimately raised many more questions. As a result, […]
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