Tamur Qutab

https://www.youtube.com/embed/jbIHbgYCAO8 Video games are often maligned as addictive, but as this short from the University of California explains, they offer at least one benefit – reducing anxiety. The video details an experiment by Kate Sweeny, a professor of psychology at UC Riverside, in which college students played video games while waiting to (supposedly) receive an assessment of their looks by their peers.

Photo by Sincerely Media/Unsplash Photo by Sincerely Media/Unsplash Earlier this year, I took a break from my phone for a full week while on vacation in Mexico. My somewhat impulsive decision to forgo an international plan and leave my phone in my hotel room led to one or two tricky situations. But mainly, it was refreshing to live in the present moment.

9 minutes First shown on Psyche in January 2022, this documentary from 2013 follows the Russian dancer Olga Smirnova, then prima ballerina at the Bolshoi in Moscow. But in March 2022, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Smirnova left her position at the Bolshoi Ballet and joined the Dutch National Ballet.