Did you know a town in Norway built giant mirrors on a mountainside just to catch the sun?

That's one of the rabbit holes I went down for edition #55, Is the Sun Deciding How You Feel?, which went out this Sunday 💫

Rjukan sits so deep in a valley that it receives no direct sunlight for six months a year. In 2013, it installed three giant computer-controlled mirrors on the mountainside to redirect sunlight onto the town square. Considering that sunlight sets our serotonin levels, regulates our sleep, shapes how we make decisions, and even registers as a physical sensation in our joints before a storm arrives, we can easily say that Rjukan had a solution-oriented mindset.

This edition also goes into how extreme heat disrupts the brain's rational decision-making, the science behind why some people are basically living barometers before a storm, and the concept of meteoropathy, the actual name for what your body goes through when the weather changes.

The question for this week is: think about the season or weather in which you feel most like yourself. What does that tell you about the version of you that exists the rest of the year?

Check it out here: https://curiositysavedthecat.com/p/55-is-the-sun-deciding-how-you-feel

And let me know your thoughts 🤩