What would you bring back from childhood? / Give us some good news / There's a version of you doing better than this

Adult band camps are having a moment — and they're being described as an antidote to isolation, which tells you something about why they're catching on right now. Also: the optimism research is genuinely interesting — optimistic brains are measurably different, they process good and bad news in distinct ways, and about 80% of people have an optimism bias they don't even know about. And Oxford physicist Vlatko Vedral just published a piece in Popular Mechanics arguing that your alternate universe selves are literally shaping your fate — and the physics behind it is more grounded than it sounds. Plus the Manson mansion for rent, fingerprint theft from selfies, Dante as the Simpsons of the 14th century, and federal charges on a Carnival cruise. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.