3 Things: Whimsical Pascal Campion art, What if Freud and C.S. Lewis Met, and a Guide to Female Hormones
The magic and loneliness of big-city living, Freud's Last Session movie, and Huberman Lab's guide to female fertility
Pascal Campion is an artist/visual storyteller who’s had a lot of success - he’s designed multiple iconic New Yorker covers - but seems to have gone into something of a hiatus for the last few years and for years his artwork wasn’t available to buy online. He’s back now with some prints for purchase. His work is incredibly tender, by turns warm and whimsical as he captures the warmth of everyday domestic joys or the magic of being alone or the loneliness of big city living. Gorgeous.
Explore/buy his stuff: https://gallerypascal.com/
I am so excited for this movie, which focuses on C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud meeting and discussing the question of God and other things (to my mild devastation, it’s a fictional meeting as Lewis and Freud never met). Starring Matthew Goode and Anthony Hopkins, respectively, it’s based a stage play of the same name by Mark St. Germain, which itself is based upon the book The Question of God, written by Armand Nicholi.
Really, really excellent, but long - something I listened to last week while driving and running errands all week: Andrew Huberman’s podcast episode on Female Hormone Health, Fertility & Vitality.
Huberman is a Stanford neuroscientist who runs one of the most popular podcasts in the Western world, and this is a wide-ranging 3 hour episode in which he interviews a double board-certified physician specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. I learned more in this 3 hours about my body, about women’s cycles, fertility, birth control, feritlity-related diet and health, than I had ever known in my life before. Absolutely fascinating and packed full of gems, it’s sort of a one-stop complete guide to female fertility, with the caveat that Natalie Crawford, the physican he interviews, admits there are some risks with birth control but entirely omits any mention of the recent links between birth control and mental disorders. Spotify link / Apple podcasts link / Youtube link