A retirement move can succeed on nearly every term used to justify it. The home may cost less, the weather may be kinder and the days may feel less hurried. A person can be pleased with all of that and still miss the wider circle of people who once made ordinary life feel inhabited. This ... Read more Read more ›
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Adults who reread the same novels every few years aren't avoiding new books — psychology suggests they're using familiar pages to reconnect with the version of themselves that existed before life turned them into everyone else's reliable one. Read more ›
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A single oil palm tree yields up to ten times more oil per hectare than soy or sunflower, which is why palm supplies over a third of global vegetable oil on less than a tenth of oil-crop land — and why its expansion into Sumatra and Borneo has become one of the hardest environmental tradeoffs on Earth. Read more ›
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TSMC's 2025 annual report disclosed it manufactured 12,682 unique chip designs for 534 customers — meaning Apple, Nvidia, your car's brakes, and your bank card all trace back to the same handful of fabs on one Taiwanese island. Read more ›
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Palm oil sits in roughly half of all packaged supermarket products, but it almost never appears on the label as "palm". The WWF lists more than 200 derivative names — from sodium lauryl sulfate to glycerol stearate — that disguise where the molecule came from, leaving shoppers with an impossible cross-referencing task at the shelf. Read more ›
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For 33 years, Abdul Taib Mahmud held the Sarawak chief ministership, the finance portfolio and the resource planning ministry at the same time — one office issuing timber concessions across one of the oldest rainforests on Earth. Read more ›
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Carl Jung wrote that loneliness does not come from having no people about you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you, or from holding views that others find inadmissible. It’s one of his most quoted lines, and most people stop at the first half, the not-being-understood part. The half ... Read more Read more ›
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Walk into a Sunglass Hut, try on a pair of Ray-Bans, consider the Oakleys next to them, glance at a Prada frame, and pay using your EyeMed vision insurance. That feels like four separate choices. It is closer to one. The frames, the brands, the shop and the insurer all belong to a single company, ... Read more Read more ›
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Most people who have tried to repair something important over text or email have felt it: the reply that lands wrong, the carefully constructed message that is received as cold or insufficient or somehow making things worse, the thread that begins with good intentions and ends with more damage than the original incident caused. The ... Read more Read more ›
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Many people now in their fifties, sixties, and seventies grew up in homes where the emotional weather changed from one evening to the next, and where a child learned, by necessity, to read the signs of a parent’s mood before the parent had said a word. Footsteps in the hall were one of those signs. ... Read more Read more ›
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A Silicon Canals piece on why AI exposure follows available training data and task legibility, not a simple ranking of job difficulty. Read more ›
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A Silicon Canals Mind piece on why some people reach midlife with few close friends after spending years as the person others leaned on. Read more ›
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In January 2026, a Pittsburgh company called Skild AI, founded in 2023, raised close to 1.4 billion dollars in a round led by SoftBank, lifting its valuation past 14 billion. The company is not building a robot. It is building what it calls the Skild Brain, a single artificial intelligence meant to control almost any ... Read more Read more ›
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A Silicon Canals Mind piece on how childhood emotional display rules can become adult habits around timing, calm, conflict, and directness. Read more ›
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COBOL remains embedded in banking and government systems because replacing old code means replacing decades of business logic, not just a programming language. Read more ›
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Weekend unease in adulthood is rarely about loneliness or empty plans. It's the moment the weekday's scaffolding lifts and a person finally notices how much of their life has been running on autopilot — and the discomfort, far from being a flaw, is the most honest signal the week produces. Read more ›
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A single 5-gram scoop of creatine monohydrate carries roughly what 1.5 kilograms of raw beef would deliver — a quantity no one realistically eats, which is why even committed carnivores rely on their own liver and kidneys to make up the daily shortfall. Read more ›
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Borneo's lowland dipterocarp rainforest is roughly 130 million years old — older than the Andes — yet decades of oil palm expansion have replaced vast stretches of it with rows of a single cultivated tree. Read more ›
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Roger Harris's 1992 creatine study has grown into more than a thousand human trials, and the strongest responses keep showing up in vegetarians, women and older adults — the groups the original research barely included. Read more ›
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Creatine has been miscast as a fuel for nearly two centuries. The molecule French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul isolated from beef broth in 1832 does something stranger — it sits inside the muscle cell as phosphocreatine, ready to hand a spent ATP molecule a fresh phosphate group in milliseconds, so the fibre can fire one more time before the burn sets in. Read more ›
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When Alexander Fleming returned to his St. Mary's Hospital lab in September 1928, a contaminated petri dish would change medicine forever. The story of how a blue-green mould, a rotting Peoria cantaloupe and an artist's eye for the odd produced the drug that has saved half a billion lives. Read more ›
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