# people want (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 9 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover people want. Page: Feed: --- ## [People I want to cook for me: Quince's Anna Higham](https://annajonesfood.substack.com/p/people-i-want-to-cook-for-me-quinces) _2026-08-21 · Anna Jones · The Anna Jones Newsletter_ where I ask my burning questions to great food minds ## [Pseudoscience is like porn: you know it when you see it \[1m\]](https://www.painscience.com/blog/pseudoscience-is-like-porn--you-know-it-when-you-see-it.html) _2026-08-20 · PainSci Updates_ Or do you? It’s a fun comparison, but you can only know pseudoscience when you see it if you have enough relevant expertise . You have to actually know things about genuine science to spot the knock-offs , because the whole job of pseudoscience is to seem like good science. Science mimicry is the point. To see through it, you need to know things that most people don’t know — not even people in… ## [I Cried Myself to Sleep](https://tenderwildfires.substack.com/p/i-cried-myself-to-sleep) _2026-08-18 · Not Dead Yet. Just Distracted · Suzy Girard_ At the recommendation of a friend. ## [Load me up? Adding weight to back exercises \[90s\]](https://www.painscience.com/blog/load-me-up-adding-weight-to-back-exercises.html) _2026-08-17 · PainSci Updates_ Ranzani et al . is the rare exercise study asking a genuinely well-aimed question: does adding load to back exercises buy anything over weight-free back exercise? And the rare clear and useful answer is … nope! Somewhat higher intensity did not help. So maybe “strength” isn’t what matters for back pain — but we can't quite jump to that conclusion. In the few trials that even checked strength, the… ## [New long-term follow-up on dubious old Pain Reprocessing Therapy evidence \[3m\]](https://www.painscience.com/blog/pain-reprocessing-therapy-follow-up.html) _2026-08-15 · PainSci Updates_ Remember that too-good-to-be-true study of Pain Reprocessing Therapy back in 2022? It hasn’t been replicated, but it has been extended : more of the same, five years on. There is now a 5-year follow-up report on the long-term durability of that trial’s freakishly good results for chronic back pain — an unusually long follow-up window for a psychological pain intervention trial. Don’t mix up your… ## [It's an ice cream summer](https://annajonesfood.substack.com/p/its-an-ice-cream-summer) _2026-08-14 · Anna Jones · The Anna Jones Newsletter_ A perfect instant ice cream (no cans of condensed milk here) ## [I Married a Man I Don’t Fully Understand](https://tenderwildfires.substack.com/p/i-married-a-man-i-dont-fully-understand) _2026-08-13 · Not Dead Yet. Just Distracted · Suzy Girard_ A brief note before we begin: I’ve been away for a family event that required my presence, my attention, my love, and nearly every internal organ associated with emotional regulation. ## [Lavender Sky Coaching Programs](https://lavenderskycoaching.substack.com/p/lavender-sky-coaching-programs) _2026-08-13 · Paris Volpe · Lavender Sky_ don't tell your mother, we're werkin this summer ## [Melatonin is not a painkiller \[1m\]](https://www.painscience.com/blog/melatonin-is-not-a-painkiller.html) _2026-08-12 · PainSci Updates_ Melatonin could plausibly help people with chronic musculoskeletal pain, presumably by improving sleep . Unfortunately, a new review of 23 trials ( Wu ) shows that it doesn’t get the job done. It might improve their sleep slightly, but that does not appear to translate into pain relief. The headline result is honest: no better than placebo. And you should probably look no further, because the… ## [PRP for arthritic knees: a science update \[4m\]](https://www.painscience.com/blog/prp-for-arthritic-knees.html) _2026-08-10 · PainSci Updates_ I have long been critical of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) — injections of your own concentrated blood, still supposedly “ regenerative ” despite piles of underwhelming evidence. In July I posted about an interesting new trial that was, predictably, “ a credible negative for PRP .” As always, “ negativity ” about PRP is a complaint magnet. Usually it’s just “ it worked for me ,” but sometimes I get… ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sllYXezcY0h5) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [How Does One Manifest A Yacht?](https://lavenderskycoaching.substack.com/p/how-does-one-manifest-a-yacht) _2026-08-08 · Paris Volpe · Lavender Sky_ coming at you with another Woo Street Journal and today we're manifesting BIG ## [All my newsletter takeovers in one place](https://annajonesfood.substack.com/p/all-my-newsletter-takeovers-in-one) _2026-08-07 · Anna Jones · The Anna Jones Newsletter_ Some summer reading, not a list of summer novels ## [The things I love - August](https://annajonesfood.substack.com/p/the-things-i-love-august) _2026-08-06 · Anna Jones · The Anna Jones Newsletter_ Fun berries, a holiday cooking 'hack' + a flavourful summer reading list ## [In defence of reiki practitioners (yes, really, sorta) \[2m\]](https://www.painscience.com/blog/in-defence-of-reiki-practitioners.html) _2026-08-03 · PainSci Updates_ Someone once tried to defend reiki practitioners on my Facebook page , and I surprised some of my skeptical allies by standing up for her — not because I think reiki works, but because I don’t think the people who do reiki are “evil,” or even very different from me . Different, sure, but not very different. Reiki is “aura massage,” usually branded as either reiki or the strangely named… ## [10 salads that will see you through to September](https://annajonesfood.substack.com/p/10-salads-that-will-see-you-through) _2026-07-31 · Anna Jones · The Anna Jones Newsletter_ An invitation not to cook this summer ## [In the Snare of Social Media](https://raebotsfordend.substack.com/p/in-the-snare-of-social-media) _2026-07-30 · Rae Botsford End · Letters from Rae Botsford End_ July 2026: A letter for people who feel trapped in a screen. ## [There Are Two Kinds of Travelers. I Married the Other One.](https://tenderwildfires.substack.com/p/there-are-two-kinds-of-travelers) _2026-07-28 · Not Dead Yet. Just Distracted · Suzy Girard_ If it were up to my husband, we would go to the airport before we ever decided to take the trip. ## [imagine being compensated for things that come easy to you](https://lavenderskycoaching.substack.com/p/imagine-being-compensated-for-things) _2026-07-28 · Paris Volpe · Lavender Sky_ your professional archetype. why people want to pay YOU. why you're so valuable and how to convey it using your archetype. ## [So…Did They Culture It?](https://tenderwildfires.substack.com/p/sodid-they-culture-it) _2026-07-24 · Not Dead Yet. Just Distracted · Suzy Girard_ I’ve noticed something alarming. ## [Olive oil, I love you](https://annajonesfood.substack.com/p/olive-oil-i-love-you) _2026-07-24 · Anna Jones · The Anna Jones Newsletter_ and Stanley Tucci's Spaghetti alla Nerano ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1U4bQC6hOVXQ) _2026-07-24 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [imagine being so sure of yourself that changing careers is actually exciting](https://lavenderskycoaching.substack.com/p/imagine-being-so-sure-of-yourself) _2026-07-22 · Paris Volpe · Lavender Sky_ your professional archetype. why people want to pay YOU. why you're so freakin valuable and how to convey it. ## [Dear Future Husband: Here's how to love me at my bedside when I'm old and grey](https://lavenderskycoaching.substack.com/p/dear-future-husband-heres-how-to) _2026-07-21 · Paris Volpe · Lavender Sky_ Know me. Understand my human design. Remember my favorite songs and never forget how to ask me hard questions. ## [An immense new review of exercise for pain \[2m\]](https://www.painscience.com/blog/immense-new-review-of-exercise-for-pain.html) _2026-07-21 · PainSci Updates_ And it sounds like good news, but I’m not so sure. The salamander is not easily impressed. Singh et al . is a sweeping new super-review of many kinds of exercise for many kinds of pain: a mighty review of 157 other reviews , based on almost 2800 trials, and over 220,000 study subjects. So it’s a big boy. The authors conclude that exercise modestly reduces pain for most conditions — with the… ## [People I want to cook for me: Georgina Hayden](https://annajonesfood.substack.com/p/people-i-want-to-cook-for-me-georgina) _2026-07-17 · Anna Jones · The Anna Jones Newsletter_ where I ask my burning questions to great food minds ## [City noise pollution may aggravate pain (and nature sounds don’t help) \[5m\]](https://www.painscience.com/blog/nature-sounds-study.html) _2026-07-17 · PainSci Updates_ This post is about an actually good study of nature sounds for fibromyalgia — seriously! It is possible. There aren’t even any major asterisks on that.  \* Gungormus and Pérez-Mármol did a fine job. “Nature sounds are good for pain” is one of those ideas that many people just want to believe, and to hell with the evidence. If a study seems to back it, no matter how superficially, they’ll… ## [What the Heart Can Hold](https://tenderwildfires.substack.com/p/what-the-heart-can-hold) _2026-07-16 · Not Dead Yet. Just Distracted · Suzy Girard_ The other night, I watched my husband teaching our daughter to play the drums. ## [imagine knowing yourself SO WELL that it's a joy ride starting a new career](https://lavenderskycoaching.substack.com/p/why-trying-to-land-a-new-job-feels) _2026-07-15 · Paris Volpe · Lavender Sky_ your professional archetype. why people want to pay YOU. why you're so freakin valuable and how to convey it. ## [Pillow talk: the evidence about pillows and neck pain is soft \[5m\]](https://www.painscience.com/blog/pillow-talk--the-evidence-about-pillows-and-neck-pain-is-soft.html) _2026-07-11 · PainSci Updates_ \[ Image caption: Scene of the crime? Cricks often strike overnight — so pillows get both credit and blame. \] Sleeping badly and hurting are entangled: poor sleep is linked to worse neck pain, and better sleep to improvement. Anything that helps you sleep is probably part of the neck-pain picture — a bad pillow can interfere with that, and a good one won’t. But what’s a “good pillow,” other than… ## [Melon, cucumber + herby green yoghurt freezer salad](https://annajonesfood.substack.com/p/melon-cucumber-herby-green-yoghurt) _2026-07-10 · Anna Jones · The Anna Jones Newsletter_ My salad of the summer ## [Stop Filling Other People’s Baskets](https://tenderwildfires.substack.com/p/stop-filling-other-peoples-baskets) _2026-07-09 · Not Dead Yet. Just Distracted · Suzy Girard_ For thirty years, I thought “I have a problem” was just shorthand for, “Would you mind fixing it?” ## [Home Internet From Space (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/kUoahnqNte3i) _2026-07-09 · **Sponsored**_ Residential satellite internet that brings connectivity to homes beyond conventional networks ## [Salted honey almonds, roasted cherries + yoghurt cream](https://annajonesfood.substack.com/p/salted-honey-almonds-roasted-cherries) _2026-07-03 · Anna Jones · The Anna Jones Newsletter_ A takeover from Nour Yakoob of nuun Cakes ## [Recipe for Remembering](https://tenderwildfires.substack.com/p/recipe-for-remembering) _2026-07-02 · Not Dead Yet. Just Distracted · Suzy Girard_ This week, I finally opened two small tin recipe boxes that had been sitting on a shelf in my kitchen for years. ## [The things I love - July](https://annajonesfood.substack.com/p/the-things-i-love-july) _2026-07-02 · Anna Jones · The Anna Jones Newsletter_ Ice cream dreams, a holiday eating tick list and a golden time for cooking ## [Freezing shoulders enjoy steroids, PRP not so much \[3m\]](https://www.painscience.com/blog/freezing-shoulders-enjoy-steroids-prp-not-so-much.html) _2026-07-02 · PainSci Updates_ A new trial from Taiwan with a respectable design and a believable result has compared platelet-rich plasma (PRP), corticosteroids (CS), and a saline placebo for shoulders in the agonizing freezing stage of frozen shoulder . Steroids won handily, and that’s worth knowing — but I see this study as more of a bad news story for PRP than good news for steroids. Fashionable, fancy PRP couldn’t even… ## [Dreams Come Fast When You Go Slow](https://lavenderskycoaching.substack.com/p/dreams-come-fast-when-you-go-slow) _2026-07-01 · Paris Volpe · Lavender Sky_ affirmations are clogging up your brain-scape, there's an actual formula for creating your reality ## [Hired & Heating Up: Bringing Sexy Back to Personal Statements](https://lavenderskycoaching.substack.com/p/hired-and-heating-up-bringing-sexy) _2026-06-30 · Paris Volpe · Lavender Sky_ pool party meets soulful career counseling meets human design revelations ## [Hot, cold and crispy](https://annajonesfood.substack.com/p/hot-cold-and-crispy) _2026-06-25 · Anna Jones · The Anna Jones Newsletter_ A love letter to chillies and two recipes for HOT days ## [Stretching for fibromyalgia: abstract versus full text \[2m\]](https://www.painscience.com/blog/stretching-for-fibromyalgia--abstract-versus-full-text.html) _2026-06-25 · PainSci Updates_ On the heels of another round of my stretch “negativity,” today I’m reporting on a new study ( Støve et al .) that challenges my notorious anti-stretching bias, and offers fibromyalgia patients a smidgen of hope. The study reports that a mere six minutes of daily home stretching for six weeks reduced fibromyalgia symptoms by a little over 18%. Not exactly “huge” if true, but it’s good, and cheap,… ## [LinkedIn Power Move: Updating Your Brand Image](https://lavenderskycoaching.substack.com/p/linkedin-power-move-updating-your) _2026-06-24 · Paris Volpe · Lavender Sky_ AI-images. How to take kickass photos. And a message from my dead mom lol. ## [The Ring Incident](https://tenderwildfires.substack.com/p/the-ring-incident) _2026-06-24 · Not Dead Yet. Just Distracted · Suzy Girard_ I have become convinced that the fall of Western civilization can be directly traced to the customer service department of a certain large national electronics retailer. ## [Fresh example of “going broke telling the truth to people want to be lied to” \[1m\]](https://www.painscience.com/blog/fresh-example-of-going-broke-telling-the-truth-to-people-want-to-be-lied-to.html) _2026-06-24 · PainSci Updates_ Recently I posted about how you can make a living by “ telling the truth to people who want to hear it ,” but you’ll go broke if you try that with people who don’t … and it’s hard to tell the difference. I also mentioned that I often lose subscribers because I eventually publish something that triggers them. Fresh example! I lost two paying members when I posted that “ stretching doesn’t always… ## [Updated: “Stretch doesn’t always feel good” \[30s\]](https://www.painscience.com/blog/updated--stretch-doesnt-always-feel-good.html) _2026-06-23 · PainSci Updates_ Just a heads up that I have rewritten half of my recent post, “ Stretching doesn’t always feel good .” This significant rejiggering was 100% powered by reader comments, all from folks with fibromyalgia and hypermobility/EDS: “It just hurts too much. Usually too sore!” “I hit the end range of my joint miles long before I feel any stretch.” The post did mention both conditions, but only as potential… ## [Today we celebrate!](https://annajonesfood.substack.com/p/today-we-celebrate) _2026-06-19 · Anna Jones · The Anna Jones Newsletter_ A discount and an index of all my recipes in one place ## [Stretching doesn’t always feel good \[4m\]](https://www.painscience.com/blog/stretching-doesnt-always-feel-good.html) _2026-06-19 · PainSci Updates_ Every time I’ve ever published anything that undermines bad beliefs about stretching — and there are plenty of those to undermine — I get a fresh batch of reactions like this: “But stretching feels so good!” And for as long as I’ve been writing about how stretching is not a pillar of fitness (since circa 2005), I have been softening the blow by acknowledging that, yes indeed, it really does feel… ## [Recipe Index : All my recipes in one place](https://annajonesfood.substack.com/p/recipe-index-all-my-recipes-in-one) _2026-06-17 · Anna Jones · The Anna Jones Newsletter_ An organised list of all my newsletter recipes ## [The Man With The Machete](https://tenderwildfires.substack.com/p/the-man-with-the-machete) _2026-06-17 · Not Dead Yet. Just Distracted · Suzy Girard_ One of the most important life lessons I’ve ever learned was given to me by a tree farmer. ## [Making a living by telling the truth to those who want it (if you can find them) \[90s\]](https://www.painscience.com/blog/three_ways_to_get_paid.html) _2026-06-16 · PainSci Updates_ Sometimes I feel like I am mostly earning a living from the customers I haven’t pissed off yet. 😜 This charmingly quotable wisdom nugget was recently shared by John Gruber , so you may well have come across it already, but it’s worth a look again while thinking about the messy and fiercely disputed “truths” of biology and healthcare: There are three ways to make a living: Lie to people who want… ## [Summer holiday herby courgette and tomato pasta](https://annajonesfood.substack.com/p/summer-holiday-herby-courgette-and) _2026-06-12 · Anna Jones · The Anna Jones Newsletter_ My pasta of the summer, is it a pasta salad? Who can say? ## [The kind of running injury risk science we’re always waiting for \[4m\]](https://www.painscience.com/blog/achilles-tendinitis-risk-factors.html) _2026-06-12 · PainSci Updates_ The injured always want to know why me? Science rarely has a satisfying answer, but today it can tell you at least this much: Achilles tendinitis probably causes gait glitches, and not the other way around, according to a big new Czech study with a better-than-average design. Jandacka et al gave us some precious “prospective” evidence: that is, they followed 900 thoroughly measured adults (runners… ## [Fable 5: The First Hit is Free](https://goodmattg.xyz/articles/Fable-5-The-First-Hit-Is-Free) _2026-06-12 · gmgprivacy@proton.me (Matt Goodman) · Matt Goodman_ Artemis II lifts off from Launch Complex 39B, April 1, 2026. Image credit: NASA/Michael DeMocker. I’ve been extensively testing Fable 5 (Mythos class) after the recent launch. My tests pushed its capabilities from spatial reasoning, critical reasoning, long running research and feedback, multi-step tasks, cinematography / visual design, and other more minor tasks. Examples: help research, design,…