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In the Season 7 finale of “Game of Thrones,” Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen hooked up, Viserion demolished the Wall, Arya killed Littlefinger and Jaime finally left Cersei. By the end the show had boiled the roughly 9,000 subplots it introduced over seven seasons down to two: Jon and Dany’s coalition of the willing vs. Cersei and Euron the mad pirate. And the White Walkers vs. everyone.

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In a TED Talk called Flow — The Secret to Happiness, Dr. Csikszentmihalyi explains that when you’re fully involved in the process of creating something, your brain doesn’t have enough leftover capacity to monitor how your body feels. The chatter in your head fades away, and you forget if you’re hungry or tired. Flow (or flow state) is an out-of-body focus that I can only describe as a state of ecstasy in which everything makes sense and you feel zero friction.

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On a day in late February, a shed-like vehicle pulled up in front of a Bottega Veneta store on a high-end shopping street in Amsterdam and parked for the day. Inside the structure–exactly the size of one parking place–was a bike rack designed to bring extra infrastructure to an area where it’s difficult to find a place to lock a bicycle, even in bike-obsessed Amsterdam. “It ‘steals’ a car parking space, to allow parking for eight bicycles,” says Hugo Velthuis, manager of Union, a Dutch bike brand that worked with the creative agency Natwerk on the intervention. “[It’s] an innovative way to give bikes priority over cars.”

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"What if we could use those peak experiences to make us whole, to render us holy?... and in Houston Smith's immortal words: 'Might we begin then to transform...

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We tested six portable projectors under $600 (the Anker Nebula Capsule, LG PH550, AAXA P6, Sony MP-CD1, and Miroir HD Mini Projector M175) to find the best for the price. We particularly liked the Nebula Capsule and the PH550.

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