Totally awesome

Much of the US will witness a total solar eclipse next week. In this article a psychologist (and eclipse chaser) tries to explain why people react to eclipses with such emotional intensity.

She boils it down to an acronym called SPACED:

—Sense of wrongness

—Primal fear

—Awe

—Connection

—Euphoria

—Desire to repeat

Related to this – a Q&A with a Berkeley researcher about the benefits of feeling awe.