December 29, 2014 to January 2, 2015
LWON continued revisiting our favorite posts this week with a series of holiday reduxes, including wishes for a “bullshit-free” 2015.
Craig goes primal with some dabs of red ochre face paint during an icy trek. Tens of thousands of years ago, artistically-inclined ancestors in Indonesia used the same type of pigment to depict hands on a cave wall.
Erik tells the tale of a kindly bookstore owner, also known as Doctor de Agua, who brought much-needed clean water to a village in Bolivia.
If you want to improve your performance, try tracking your outcomes, suggests Christie. Otherwise, you might suffer from the same ignorance as doctors who push unproven treatments.
Michelle breaks down her Bullshit Prevention Protocol and explains why fact-checking “can feel like a particularly demented form of needlepoint.”
And Cameron pays her respects to her favorite chess piece, the knight.
Image credit: Sarah Gilman