"John Was Trying to Contact Aliens" - 16 mins. Here are some of my favorites that I've discovered. Netflix has a ton of options that are under an hour long, with an expanse of topics - space travel, sumo wrestling, and speedcubing. Earlier this year, I used this as an opportunity to explore all the great sketch comedy options that were available to stream, but recently I've expanded my media diet to include short, upbeat documentaries. There are times, especially at the end of a workday, where my attention span is just shot. There's a simple explanation for this, and Corinne Purtill put it quite succinctly for the New York Times: "Stress, like a pandemic, puts our brains into 'fight or flight' mode, disrupting attention, memory, breathing and sleep." It's been a year of some pretty spectacular documentaries - from HBO's revealing sports and mental health documentary "The Weight of Gold," to Netflix's inspiring Paralympics Games doc "Rising Phoenix," to the heartfelt "A Secret Love."īut, as I've written about before, I've developed something that I call "quarantine brain." It's kind of like being on a heavy dose of cold medicine while also taking an hourly shot of espresso mentally dull with some spikes of anxiety.
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