Senses working overtime #386

1 The steady demise of Digital Single Lens Reflex cameras

2 Seventeen ways to be more positive

3 The real magic of rituals 

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

4 How Tetris went viral

5 The cheating scandal rocking the chess world

Overtime: From James Clear

"The brilliance of the stars would be invisible without the vast darkness of space behind them.

Do not wish away the difficult portions of life. They provide the contrast needed to appreciate the joyful moments."

Senses working overtime #385

1 Living in the present

2 The 200 best albums of the last 25 years (according to Pitchfork readers)

3 Record grooves under the microscope

4 Rebecca Clark (artist)

Courtesy of Swissmiss

5 Aaron Judge - home run (almost) record breaker

With his 60th dinger of the season on Tuesday night, Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is on pace to break the long-standing American League home run record in the next few games. And if you happen to catch one of those home runs, you could be on pace to finally afford a house.

Given Judge’s lack of performance-enhancing drug controversy and his popularity among baseball fans, experts are estimating his 61st home run ball could fetch anywhere from $250,000 to more than $2 million at auction. His 62nd (and record-breaking) bomb/homer/moon shot has an estimated value of between $500,000 and $5+ million.

• For that reason, Yankees ticket prices have ballooned to $960 on StubHub, with some eclipsing $4,000 on the secondary market.

With all that money on the line, the MLB isn’t taking any chances on a forgery. For the rest of the season, every ball pitched to Judge will include a covert marking that can only be seen with certain technology, although the league isn’t being much more specific than that to ensure the legitimacy of its authentication process.

When could it happen? The 6'7" Judge is averaging one home run every ~2.5 games. He has 13 games left and needs just two more taters to break Roger Maris’s 1961 record.—MK

(Courtesy of Morning Brew)

Overtime: How to open a can without a can opener!

Senses working overtime #384

1 Burning Man

One of my daughters and her partner attended this event a week or so ago. That extraordinary image is of traffic leaving for home.

2 The most important forces shaping our world

This is one terrific piece of writing - I was fully engaged! Morgan Housel writes that apart from World War 2,

The three big ones that stick out are demographics, inequality, and access to information.

3 Knowing is no enough, we must apply

4 Kaizen or 'good change' (the principle of gradual change)

5 Curiosity

Overtime: How our favourite songs can save us

Photo by Dollar Gill on Unsplash

Senses working overtime #383

1 The Queen is dead. Long live the King.

Along with everyone else, this week's senses were dominated by the death of Queen Elizabeth II. So this week's collection of jewels is devoted to her.  

First up - a great display that features her 70 years as a visual icon

2 The first monarch we thought we knew.

3 The short unhappy life of Elizabeth Windsor

4 How she was taught to rule

5 How her sense of duty prevailed in an age of individualism (and what happens next?)

Overtime: Her Majesty - The Beatles

Senses working overtime #382

1 The Arthurian legend - was King Arthur a real person?

Near the remains of Richard of Cornwall’s 13th-century castle are two grottoes. The one on the left is known as Merlin’s Cave. Jooney Woodward

I want to see this when we go to the west country at Christmas time!

2 Linda Evangelista

3 Thirty-one small items that could make your life a tiny bit better

4 You've probably seen yourself in your memories

5 Why plastic doesn't dry in your dishwasher

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