From flight paths to root systems, cosmic webs to what we inherit and more in #TheEdit.

• The grass at airports. When tragedy hits a runway, it’s a poignant reminder of the precise, unforgiving symbiosis between human systems and nature – New Yorker 
• My mother, the artist, discovered at 90. What I learned about myself trying to find homes for my mother’s amateur oil paintings – The New York Times (gift link)  
• How else would a body come to truly know our planet? A meditation on motion, disconnection, and the flight paths of long-distance birds – The Substack Post 
• Networking hots up in the yoga studio. Golf is competitive. You’re not competing with anyone with hot yoga – Financial Times (gift link) 
• What is the shape of the Universe? As well as river networks with their branching tributaries, the cosmic web echoes spider webs, transport networks, mycelia, and even respiratory networks and neurons in human bodies – Aeon 
• The psychological secret to longevity. Your subjective sense of things going slowly, and then speeding up, is real. But you can also control it – The Atlantic  
• What is Moral Ambition? On Purpose’s Associate Programme develops talented professionals seeking a career with greater impact by matching them with purpose-led organisations seeking to boost their impact and shape change. Are we seeing the moral high ground become the new career goal? – The Beautiful Truth