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  • Six million messages in a bottle have been cast into the sea since the 1950s: Lauren Collins.
  • “Professors should also stop treating the humanities as something confined to the campus. The humanities flourish in every public library, publishing firm, playhouse, concert hall, art gallery, museum, book group poetry reading, and magazine rack,” writes Eric Jager for Compact.
  • “The main thing I try to help people with is to trust that they can read less more, and to have a repertoire of questions handy as they’re reading. Focus on the how question more than the what question… — and noticing how how leads to why,” says Marilyn McEntyre to Aaron Cline Hanbury at Common Good.
  • The promise of social prescribing, according to Sean Geraghty and Mike Goldstein of the Center for Teen Flourishing, via EdNext. As of 2025, the evidence base is improving.
  • Phone bans at work: mixed results, via FT.

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