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Image by L.E. Wilson from RedBubble based on work by Oscar on PixabayIt began with a newspaper article of a woman who was evicted from her house for failure to pay back taxes she said she didn't owe. The house was repossessed. They evicted her, sold it off and then discovered they had the wrong house. This happens a lot. — Andre Dubus III, Author of the novel, House of Sand and Fog

During the pandemic, I was seduced by a charming British management consultant. A debonair James Bond-type who went from driving a Rolls Royce around his countryside estate to orchestrating the Chilean economic experiment under Allende to teaching Brian Eno about the principles of complex systems in a stone cottage in Wales. Stafford Beer lived a remarkable life,  What the abandonment of the pinnacle of capitalist achievement for the most realistic effort to build cybernetic socialism does to a mfer.

Read here the two previous posts in this series. Some Puerto Ricans prefer to preserve the tradition of celebrating the Three Wise Men by making sure that the “Wisemen of the East” are the ones who bring the best gifts of this festive season. “Santa Claus brings something simple, because the ones who really give gifts are the Kings,” mentioned an interviewee to local newspaper Primera Hora. This is one of the ideas children are exposed to around the holiday season.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) results from a combination of stress & helplessness — e.g., immobilization while under assault. According to Dr. Peter Levine, trembling (shuddering, shivering, shaking) can be associated with protection and recovery from PTSD — as if the rapid movement of the body resets the overactive sympathetic nervous system. The mechanisms by which cold exposure activates shivering and non-shivering thermogenesis also act through the sympathetic nervous system. Suppressing your shiver reflex in the ice bath may increase heart rate variability (HRV) and improve psychological resilience.

More from Hung Up this week: The Avengers of hating Drake and where is Commander Biden’s tell-all?Jessica Chastain has opened Final Draft herself. Isla Fisher has cleared her schedule (and her home). Anne Hathaway is printing out a binder of stan tweets and Hung Up posts, already months into research for a role she hasn’t booked yet. Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos make eyes across the room: could this be her third Oscar?

Welcome to the Brown History Newsletter. If you’re enjoying this labour of love, please do consider becoming a paid subscriber. Your contribution would help pay the writers and illustrators and support this weekly publication. If you like to submit a writing piece, please send me a pitch by email at brownhistory1947@gmail.com. Check out our Shop and our Podcast. You can also follow us on Instagram and Twitter. These were the opening lines of a song that John Lennon wrote in anger about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968 in the band’s final hours in India.

A conservative Republican says “Nothing should ever be done for the first time.” A modern Republican says “It should be, but not now.” —Mort Sahl, “The Future Lies Ahead” People on the left, like humorist Mort Sahl, mocked the Eisenhower Administration for its slow, cautious approach to racial integregation. Racial segregation was maintained by force of law in the South, where a drinking fountain would be labeled “whites only” or “colored only.

Welcome to Flashlight & A Biscuit, my Southern culture offshoot of my work at Yahoo Sports. Thanks for reading, and if you’re new around here, why not subscribe? It’s free and all. Today: we’re goin’ eastbound and down. Bring your appetite and cue the music. I was wheeling north of Atlanta on Georgia 400, stuck in some mind-bending traffic, when two thoughts occurred to me: 1. I wonder where the Bandit drove around here?

“The shame of it is that he had mostly been forgiven — and then The Last Dance brought it all back up.” That’s what my friend Deremy told me a few weeks ago, and we weren’t talking about Michael Jordan. We were talking about the late, great Jerry Krause. When the Hall of Fame general manager passed away March 21, 2017, his sendoffs were largely cordial. Three years later, less than 10 minutes into a 10-hour documentary, with the U.