Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week!
LIFE
Out with the new…
In Wood Lake’s author, Lee Simpson’s book, My Year of Buying Nothing, Simpson invites readers into her world to witness first hand the struggles she faced, the decisions and compromises she had to make, and the epiphanies and wisdom she won during her year-long attempt to shed her “consumer” skin and live a more sustainable, more authentic, more earth-friendly life. Likewise in this weeks article, David Cain wrote about an idea that struck a chord with his readers — to dedicate a year to “Go Deeper, Not Wider.”…Read Full Article
From cbc
RELIGION
Fake news is the work of the devil- Pope Francis
Fake news may be a recent phenomenon but for Pope Francis it’s a diabolical practice as old as Adam and Eve. In what is, in effect, the first papal document on misinformation spread online, the pontiff connected what is now commonly called “fake news” to the story in the Book of Genesis in which a serpent tricked Eve in the Garden of Eden.…Read Full Article
From RNS
SOCIETY
Have smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
From the Atlantic
GREEN ARCHITECTURE
Airy chapel held up by tree-like fractal structure in Japan
In Nagasaki, this striking modern chapel by Yu Momoeda Architecture Office readapts these old joinery traditions to create a spiritually uplifting space that’s also visually abstract, thanks to a load-bearing, fractalized structure that dominates the interior…Read Full Article
From treehugger
HEALTH
My Grandmother Was Italian. Why Aren’t my Genes Italian?
Maybe you got one of those find-your-ancestry kits over the holidays. You’ve sent off your awkwardly-collected saliva sample, and you’re awaiting your results. If your experience is anything like that of me and my mom, you may find surprises — not the dramatic “switched at birth” kind, but results that are really different from what you expected…Read Full Article
From Npr
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