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After hours of listening, we’ve pulled together a list of the standout mindful podcasts in 2018. Podcasts About the Brain Podcasts About the Brain How Our Personal Narratives Become Facts Episode: Pt.I: Emotions / Pt.II: High Voltage, Invisibilia This wonderful if offbeat podcast (its title is Latin for “invisible things”) fuses science with narrative storytelling. These episodes investigate psychologist Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett’s case that how we conceptualize (and deal with) emotions is totally backward: “Emotions aren’t a reaction to the world; they actually construct the world....

** Society has finally starting doing away with stereotypical gender norms. This means long locks are no longer the definition of femininity. What was a revelation a century ago is now the norm: women can rock short hair, too. The breakup haircut echoes that declaration and is guaranteed to have you feeling sexy and empowered. There’s nothing like the rush of a dramatic hair change to have you feeling excited and hopeful....

We’ve known about Google’s vow to improve the Android tablet experience since the company announced Android 12L last year. Now, we know that the company is developing a Pixel tablet and will launch it sometime next year. That let us know that Google really is serious about fixing the tablet experience on Android. The Play Store tablet optimizations are finally coming The Play Store tablet optimizations are finally coming Google has been working on optimizing its apps for tablets, and we’ve seen the fruits of its labor....

The Galaxy S22+ and S22 Ultra are also on sale too. The Galaxy S22+ is down to $849 from $999. While the Galaxy S22 Ultra is down to $899 from $1,199, which is arguably the best sale of the three. These are pretty good discounts for the Galaxy S22 lineup, and it’s unlikely that we’ll see them drop much more ahead of Black Friday next month. Now that Samsung has decided to stop releasing the Galaxy Note and cannibalizing its Galaxy S series, these prices have stayed a lot more steady over the year....

There’s no microSD card expansion for the Galaxy S22 phones There’s no microSD card expansion for the Galaxy S22 phones Samsung has long been the antithesis of Apple until it wasn’t. While Apple failed to offer microSD card support for its devices, we could always count on Samsung to offer it. That changed last year with the introduction of the Galaxy S21 series. These phones came sans microSD card expansion and people didn’t particularly like that (even though it sold pretty well)....