Weekly Reading

Fall is finally here! But unfortunately, we don’t get the beautiful foliage New Englanders are accustomed to down here in Florida. But one company is capitalizing on the seasonal craving of autumn leaves by shipping you sets for much less than a plane ticket.

And in case you missed the onslaught of pink merchandise or the annual slapping-of-pink-ribbons-on-everything, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. I can’t be the only one tired of being guilted into buying pink-themed items without knowing how much of what I just spent actually gets back to real cancer research. Jezebel explains how the NFL’s Breast Cancer Awareness campaign lies to women.

One very brave Harvard student wrote about being raped on campus.

“Alcohol is an integral part of the college experience and the society we live in, for better or for worse. Alcohol also makes people more vulnerable. But everyone has the right to get as drunk as they want to without the threat of being raped.” Read the whole article here:

A new study shows running can produce the same chemicals in your brain as smoking marijuana. This gives “runner’s high” more literal meaning.

As a self-proclaimed book worm, this article makes my heart happy. A bookstore in the UK decides to stop selling Kindles since they were getting “virtually no sales”. Apparently, the Brits like actual books.

And I saw this the other day on Facebook and keep going back to it every time I am in a bad mood:

Takes you right back to childhood, right?

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