marginalium noun

the notes one makes in the margins.

A short note on

the woman who spent five hundred days in a cave

January 8, 2025

source: www.newyorker.com

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

The Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave. I’ll just copy the Browser’s intro, who I got this from, because it’s dead on, and better than anything I could come up with:

Every twist in this tale about a Spanish woman who spent 500 days living utterly alone in a remote cave makes the jaw drop further. Her goal was total disconnection from all human contact, although she did allow security cameras and a panic button in case of emergency. It was “a year and a half inside a sensory-deprivation tank”. She achieved this and, mostly, she thrived

If you don’t do the thinking, the thinking will be done for you.

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