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È morto Giampaolo Pansa

Addio al famoso giornalista e scrittore, autore di numerosi libri sulla storia italiana e sulla politica. Si è spento all’età di 84 anni a Roma, ad annunciarne la morte un twitter del Corriere della Sera.

È stato uno dei cronisti e commentatori più noti ai lettori italiani. Cominciò la sua carriera giornalistica nel 1961 a La Stampa raccontando con acume la società e la politica italiana, mettendo alla berlina i vizi della classe dirigente e soprattutto proponendo un punto di vista controcorrente, sempre in grado di stimolare il dibattito e la riflessione.

Alcuni suoi romanzi:

La guerra sporca (2012)

Il mio viaggio tra i vinti. Neri, bianchi e rossi (2017)

La repubblichina (2018)

Quel fascista di Pansa (2019)

Il dittatore (2019)
Perché poi si parla sempre di monogamia o di poligamia per uomini con più donne. Ma le donne in situazioni di aperta poliandria, dove le mettiamo? E se poi sono nere?

Money quote: "Aside from the fact that I wrote my final paper on BDSM in our tenth grade psychology class, I was also the first person she knew who had multiple concurrent partners — partners who knew one another and were cool with sharing. She was fascinated by it. She couldn’t get enough of my stories about my boyfriends and that year, for my birthday, she even gave me two books in their honor — one to suit each relationship.
Specifically, I had two boyfriends. Let’s call them “L” and “M.” I had two hot, black boyfriends and I loved each of them in their own way."

https://humanparts.medium.com/my-two-boyfriends-and-the-polyandry-question-82c215687213
Lo strano caso dei forni che si svegliano da soli (e cuociono l'aria)

Money quote: "One owner’s oven turned on around 2:30AM and broiled at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for hours while he slept, and he only noticed when he woke up four hours later. Nest cam footage captured the exact moment it turned on: the oven illuminates his dark, empty kitchen in a truly Black Mirror-like recording. This owner says his wife baked a pie around 11:30PM the night of the preheating incident, but she turned the oven off once she took the pie out."

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/14/20802774/june-smart-oven-remote-preheat-update-user-error
Psicologici, psichiatri, medici, studiosi della mente. La più anziana sessuologa d'America è probabilmente l'ultima di una lunga genia di donne e uomini di origine germanica e di religione ebraica che, a partire dall'inizio del novecento, hanno costruito aspetti cruciali della società statunitense: dalla pubblicità alla psicanalisi, passando per tutto il resto.

Money quote: "There is no such thing as “normal,” Dr. Ruth would interrupt, emphatically, empathetically, again and again, until it became a refrain. Her age (she was born in 1928) and her accent (German, with a hint of Hebrew) suggested that she might have a particularly profound comprehension of how notions of “normalcy” could be made into weapons of cruelty. She had no patience for sanctimony, and no time for people who preached compassion but failed to practice it. Sexually Speaking was a lighthearted show with a serious implication: The line between sexual freedoms and freedoms of the other variety is not as stark as it might seem. A Ph.D. rather than a medical doctor, Dr. Ruth refused to take refuge in euphemism. She found clarity in the haze. There are so many things, her life had taught her, that are more important than politeness."

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/05/dr-ruths-good-sex-revolution/588556/
È il mix di aspettative e di pratica nella realtà che ci sta avvelenando, ci nutri di contenuti paranoici e zuccherini, ci porta all'isolamento e forse (probabilmente) alla follia. Poche, sentite note sul perché gli smartphone fanno male e rendono più soli

Money quote: "The smartphone represents a pretty dramatic shift in our expectations of companionship and entertainment — and a shift in how we respond to feelings like boredom and loneliness. Because of the promises of the digital age, when we experience those feelings, we're more surprised and alarmed than our ancestors were."

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/2/18510958/social-media-addiction-boredom-loneliness-society-technology-smart-phones
I mammoni. Che storia avvincente.

Money quote: "The reason for men staying at home may be as much economic as it is cultural: the Italian workforce suffers from a lack of upward mobility, which has caused the job market to stagnate as older generations stay in their jobs well beyond 60, the typical age of retirement. As a result, Italian millennials are both overeducated and underemployed. As of 2019, youth unemployment in the country of 60 million is at 31.9 percent. While Milan has more work opportunities for young people than other Italian cities, the average cost of renting a one-bedroom apartment is around $1,100, making staying at home a practical solution for young men saving money for their future."

https://www.topic.com/meet-the-mammoni