I am not a psychologist, a therapist, or a researcher of any kind. This is one curious adult reading a survey and thinking out loud. The numbers below come from a single nationally representative study and a few experts reflecting on it, which is to say they describe patterns across groups of people, not rules ... Read more Read more ›
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You finish work, you close the laptop, and you tell yourself the evening is yours. Then it’s one in the morning and you are still scrolling, still half-thinking about the thing you didn’t finish, and the day somehow ended without ever really being your own. Sound familiar? It sure does to me. After a long, ... Read more Read more ›
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Most of us think we judge people piece by piece. Her work is one thing, her warmth another, his honesty a third, and we weigh each separately like a careful juror. It is a flattering picture of how the mind works, but mostly wrong. Research suggests that one strong impression tends to spill over and ... Read more Read more ›
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At nearly 8,000 metres below the Pacific surface, the Mariana snailfish survives pressures that would crush a submarine — thanks to a partly unossified skeleton, TMAO-saturated cells, and a liver rebuilt for famine. Read more ›
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An observation about friendship and later life: smaller circles in your sixties often reflect deliberate choice, not coldness. A look at what the research on ageing and friendship supports, what the 'anchor' reading adds, and why a flattering story still needs handling with care. Read more ›
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The United Kingdom will become the second country in the world to legally bar children under 16 from using mainstream social media platforms, after Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a sweeping ban covering Snapchat… Read more ›
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You have probably heard the figure. Three weeks. Twenty-one days. Then the new behaviour is supposed to lock into place. I have read it in productivity posts, and quietly half-believed it myself for years. I read widely in this stuff and I test things on myself before I write about them, and the 21-day number ... Read more Read more ›
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Tech companies are firing workers at the fastest pace in two years, blaming artificial intelligence — and simultaneously posting record profits while a small cohort of AI insiders accumulates generational wealth. Read more ›
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The loneliest stretch of adult life is rarely the one where someone leaves — it is the one where everyone stays exactly where they are while you keep moving. Read more ›
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The headline writes itself and, predictably, wrote itself badly in most places it appeared. A study published in Scientific Reports in January 2026 compared the performance of several large language models, including GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini, against more than 100,000 human participants on a standard test of divergent thinking. Some AI models scored above the ... Read more Read more ›
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I caught myself thinking something the other day that I’m not proud of. A friend mentioned that an older relative of his had just signed up for a class, and my first reaction, the one I had the sense not to say out loud, was a quiet “what’s the point at that age?” It’s an ... Read more Read more ›
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The first time I read it, I thought it was a typo. Sitting in a list of perfectly sensible workplace statements, the kind about clear expectations and having the right tools to do your job, was a line that read more like something a child might ask: do you have a best friend at work? ... Read more Read more ›
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The mind does not like the present. Left to its own devices, it drifts. It runs back over a conversation from last week and replays the part you wish you’d handled better, or it leans forward into next month and starts rehearsing things that haven’t happened and may never happen. The one place it seems ... Read more Read more ›
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I am not a psychologist, and what follows is reading and reflection on a handful of studies, not advice about your life. The research here describes tendencies in groups of people, not laws that apply to everyone the same way, so take it as a lens rather than a verdict on how you in particular ... Read more Read more ›
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For fifteen years, the Post Office told courts that Horizon's branch accounts could only be altered by the subpostmaster at the counter. Fujitsu engineers in Bracknell could rewrite them remotely — and the denial of that capability is the load-bearing beam under more than 700 wrongful prosecutions. Read more ›
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On 29 April 2020, a single lightning bolt crossed Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi end to end — 768 kilometres of continuous discharge in under seven seconds, the longest flash ever recorded. Here is what scientists now know about how such megaflashes start. Read more ›
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The headline number is the kind of figure that is hard to absorb without somehow flattening it back into ordinary language. Ten septillion years is 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. The universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old. The ratio between those two numbers is approximately one quadrillion. If the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory — ... Read more Read more ›
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Inside Booking.com's Amsterdam engineering floors, a homemade experimentation framework from 2007 quietly runs tens of thousands of parallel A/B tests, turning fractions of a percent into billions in bookings. Read more ›
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The first video ever uploaded to YouTube is not an event, not a viral phenomenon, not a curated piece of content, and not particularly interesting on its own terms. It is a 19-second clip of a 25-year-old man standing in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, observing that elephants have long ... Read more Read more ›
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Here is a finding that stuck with me. Across three big American studies tracking more than 17,000 people, those who felt roughly eight, eleven and thirteen years older than their actual age had 18%, 29% and 25% higher mortality risk respectively. The figure tracked not their chronological age, but how old they felt. The age ... Read more Read more ›
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On a Phnom Penh morning in January 2026, a man who had held three passports, a Cambodian royal title, and a personal fortune large enough to make him one of the country's most visible businessmen woke up as none of those things. Read more ›
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The American laying flock now stands at roughly 374 million birds, most of them housed on about 67 square inches of wire each. A look inside the cage system that still produces over 60% of the world's eggs — and the heat, lawsuits, and broken pledges now reshaping it. Read more ›
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On September 9, 1947, engineers at Harvard's Computation Laboratory pulled a moth from Relay 70 of the Mark II computer and taped it into the logbook. The word 'bug' was already 70 years old — and that's exactly why the joke worked. Read more ›
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On October 14, 2025, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn unsealed an indictment and a civil forfeiture complaint that, taken together, represent what the Department of Justice has described as the largest asset seizure in its history: 127,271 bitcoin, valued at roughly $15 billion at the time of filing. Read more ›
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Adyen processes payments for Uber, Spotify, eBay and Microsoft from a 17th-century Amsterdam canal house where engineers still share one long lunch table — and went public at €7 billion with fewer staff than a midsize hotel. Read more ›
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Norges Bank Investment Management runs the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, holds roughly 1.5% of every listed company on Earth, and processes 9,000 shareholder meetings a year with a corporate governance team you could fit around three dinner tables. Read more ›
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Some children get a note sent home. Too quiet. Doesn’t participate. Needs to come out of their shell. The same line tends to follow them into adult life, where it turns into feedback about speaking up more in meetings, being more visible, putting yourself out there. The standard reading of that advice is that it ... Read more Read more ›
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People who stay genuinely close to their parents well into adulthood often trace it back not to big occasions or careful conversations, but to a single quiet certainty: that arriving imperfect was never going to cost them anything Read more ›
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There is a version of changing your life that the self-improvement shelf rarely describes. Not the part where you fail, relapse, or run out of willpower. The part where you start to succeed, and the people around you keep quietly handing you back the person you used to be. The usual story about change is ... Read more Read more ›
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Long marriages don't deepen at anniversaries or milestones. They deepen on the ordinary Tuesday when one partner finally drops the curated version they were performing — and the other one chooses to stay anyway. Here's the psychology of why the unmasking moment matters more than any occasion. Read more ›
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