Quote
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
Albert Einstein
Joke
I told my girlfriend she drew her eyebrows too high. She seemed surprised!
Fun Fact
The global adult literacy rate is around 86 percent.
With each generation that passes, more and more people are learning how to read, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). These days, around 86 percent of adults around the world are able to enjoy a book. UNESCO also explained that their data shows "remarkable improvement among youth in terms of reading and writing skills and a steady reduction in gender gaps. Fifty years ago, almost one-quarter of youth lacked basic literacy skills compared to less than 10 percent in 2016."
Reading Fact
Reading can help depression and anxiety
Reading can help alleviate depression. Especially reading fiction, since it can help people temporarily escape their own world and immerse themselves in the adventures of the characters they read about. Not only that, but studies have also shown that reading can have a positive effect on anxiety symptoms as well.
History Fact
Your Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather Was a Mass Murderer
Over the course of his massively powerful campaigning around Asia and Europe, Genghis Khan killed an estimated 40 million people—that was 10% of the world’s population. But he’s also pretty much everyone’s common ancestor, so all that killing and maiming balances out…right?
Movie/TV Trivia
After his character was shot in the foot by Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, Michael Imperioli’s Christopher got fictional retribution by shooting a baker in the foot in The Sopranos. His kiss-off line? “It happens”.
Movie/TV Quote
"Didn't I tell you not to come to my house? Nobody touches my child!"
Obsessed (2009)
"Come here, bitch. I'll wipe the floor with your skinny ass," says Beyoncé towards the end of this joyfully ludicrous erotic thriller, a twist on the proven Fatal Attraction formula with Ali Larter in the Glenn Close role and Idris Elba as the Michael Douglas-like master of the universe with a wandering eye. The big difference is that Beyoncé, coming off her I Am… Sasha Fierce record and her part in Dreamgirls, plays the scorned wife, and she makes the most of the role in the film's climactic fight scene, dragging Larter by the leg and punctuating her lines with punches to the face. Obsessed is not a great movie -- much of it is dull and derivative -- but it comes alive in the final stretch, enlivened by the intensity of the performances and the tawdriness of the material. At the moment, Obsessed is Beyoncé's last non-voice-acting Hollywood film role; if she returns to narrative feature films in the future, perhaps behind the camera, hopefully she'll bring a touch of Obsessed's pulpy, cathartic pleasure with her.
Conversation Starter
What apps have changed your life a lot?
Writing Prompt