Holly Baxter via The Independent:

‘The president seemed like he was struggling, writes Holly Baxter, and through the struggle he forgot to claim that the Iran war isn’t a war and that the $5,000 midterms payment isn’t a mass voter bribe…’

Nick Visser via the Guardian:

‘The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast…’

Via RFI:

‘For much of that history, works by psychiatric patients were viewed through the lens of their illness. In 1900, London’s Bethlem Royal Hospital – the institution whose name gave rise to the word “bedlam” – held the first major international exhibition bringing together such works.

Its 600 pieces were treated mainly as medical records rather than art. When their artistic qualities later attracted attention, they were sometimes attributed to a supposed lack of inhibition among patients.

Sainte-Anne’s collection tells a different story. Works created in a hospital setting came to be valued for their artistic qualities as well as studied by psychiatrists, while the supposed link between mental illness and creativity has increasingly been questioned….’