Rogue Habits

Drawing the world's strangeness with Benê Fabio

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In a series of works by artist Benê Fabio, cartoonish figures with fluorescent clothing sit with their eyes glued to their smartphones — literally. The figures are simultaneously grotesque and intriguing: their eyeballs burst out from their faces, reminiscent of those eyeball-popping glasses you get at costume stores during Halloween, before being planted on[...]

How To Create Habits That Stick

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That a habit takes 21 days to form is one of those stubborn myths which, once planted into the public consciousness, simply refused to die. It originated with the research of one Dr. Maxwell Maltz back in the 1950s, and Maltz's actual hypothesis (yes, hypothesis — he never scientifically proved it) was that a habit takes at least 21 days to form. Somewher[...]

Fast Fashion Is Catastrophic. Here Are 7 Ways To Quit.

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I haven't shopped at Zara in four months. Nor H&M, nor Mango, nor any other ubiquitous fast fashion retail chain. It might not sound like much, but for me it's a marked difference. You might say I'm on a detox, and while it's early days, I plan to make it a lasting one. So what changed? I finally got around to watching The True Cost, a documentary tha[...]

The Power of Rituals—How One Small Habit Can Have an Immensely Positive Effect

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I have a confession to make: I'm the kind of person that can inhale a meal. You know when it's there in front of you one second and the next you look down and your plate is somehow empty? Happens. And coincidentally my boyfriend is the same (maybe not so coincidentally. You gotta to have some shared interests, right?) This is obviously not great for reaso[...]

This Lisbon Gem Shows Us The Value of Slow, Seasonal Food

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Once, cooking was an act slow and careful and seasoned with love. Eating was synonymous with family, and ingredients came and went with the seasonal whims of nature. A Venda Lusitana, a food concept in the center of Lisbon, is a portal to those times. It stocks an ever-evolving range of locally produced products, and then uses those same products to creat[...]

You'll fall in Love Love Love with this gloriously awkward music video

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Portuguese DJ Moullinex, aka Luis Clara Gomes, says he's never been a good dancer. "But I like to participate," he tells us. "That’s probably how I became a DJ." What does his latest music video, titled "Love Love Love", have to do with bad dancing? Plenty, actually. Part film clip and part social experiment, the concept was simple: a bunch of people r[...]

The science of why we cling to our beliefs

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Imagine there's a person running at you with an axe in their hand and a crazed look in their eye. Now imagine you're sitting at a bar having a quiet conversation with someone and that someone is challenging one of your most deeply-held beliefs. Which of these situations would you say is a serious threat? You might think being hacked to pieces by an axe-mu[...]

The Hellish Beauty of Portugal's Festival Masks

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It's a sunny afternoon in Lisbon, Portugal, and in the street a young girl is being clutched by the devil. Or a devil, more accurately, and it's her lower leg he has gripped in a pair of long wooden pincers. The girl shrieks and twists herself free, giggling. The devil-man emits a laugh from behind a wild, wooden mouth and skips off to find his next victim.[...]

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