Links: Outdoors, and in the brain

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How to Tell Your Trail Partner to Slow Down by Blair Braverman via jesse_the_k.

When you struggle to keep up with [him], it’s not because you’re doing less than him. It’s because you’re doing more: hiking, yes, but also caring for a body with significant medical needs and carrying the mental burden of worry about medication and health emergencies. You are not less than. You are, quite literally, working harder.

Plate tectonics runs deeper than we thought by Howard Lee. Long and informative article!

"The Plate Tectonics theory’s modern upgrade is the result of new information. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Earth’s interior has gradually been charted by CAT-Scan-like images, built by mapping the echoes of powerful earthquakes that bounce off features within Earth’s underworld, the way a bat screeches to echo-locate surroundings. These “seismic tomography” pictures show that plates that plunge down from the surface and into the mantle (“subduct” in the language of geologists) don’t just assimilate into a formless blur, as often depicted. In fact, they have a long and eventful afterlife in the mantle.

Why Everything is Getting Louder by Bianca Bosker.

The hum had settled into a strong, unwavering refrain by the time Thallikar dropped me off at my hotel, which looked out over the CyrusOne campus. I could see a new building under construction, plus a lot for another building of equal size. Beyond that, just down the street from where Thallikar lived, was a bald patch of land with space for two more buildings. CyrusOne had room to add 96 more chillers, almost double the number whining now.

Tetris Shown to Lessen PTSD and Flashbacks by Robin Nixon via sixbeforelunch.

A seemingly trivial task – playing a particular video game – may lessen flashbacks and other psychological symptoms following a traumatic event, according to research presented here at the British Psychology Society Annual Conference.