💬 Quoted… “A shade that resonates with compassion, offers a tactile embrace, and effortlessly bridges the youthful with the timeless.”

• Yesterday, Pantone… um, eloquently unveiled its color of the year for 2024: Peach Fuzz, a shade the company of color experts says “echoes our innate yearning for closeness and connection.” Each Pantone color of the year, chosen by a group of color psychology and color trend researchers, aims to show how color can be used as a mechanism to express whatever is happening culturally in the world at a given time.

🏥⏳ Stat of the Day: More than half of all US psychologists (56%) have no openings for new patients, and those with waitlists have an average wait time of 3+ months, per an annual survey by the American Psychological Association released this week. The survey also found 36% of psychologists report feeling burned out, down from a peak of 41% in 2021.

🤔 Did You Know?... Crypto is apparently even thirstier than a lot of the bros mining it. Last year, global bitcoin mining operations consumed an estimated 47% more water than all of New York City combined (591 billion gallons vs. 403 billion).

📰 Worth a Read: The final frontier? How humans could live underwater in 'ocean stations' → (BBC Future)