When an older person starts giving money away in earnest, funding a grandchild’s deposit, signing large cheques to a cause, the reaction around them is often unease. The worry is that they are being imprudent, or that someone is steering them, and that they are spending down something meant to last. Sometimes the worry is ... Read more Read more ›
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In Oregon's Malheur National Forest, a single honey fungus covers 2,385 acres, weighs around 35,000 tons, and has been killing conifers from below for thousands of years — making it the largest known individual organism on Earth. Read more ›
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Claude Guillemot, a co-founder of French video game publisher Ubisoft, reportedly died in a plane crash. Read more ›
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The U.S.-Iran deal that President Donald Trump is trying to sell as a diplomatic victory is already moving into a more fragile phase: not because the agreement does not exist, but because nearly every party around it is testing where its limits begin. Photo by Phearak Chamrien on Pexels A deal that delivered what once ... Read more Read more ›
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Joan Didion's most quoted sentence is usually read as poetry. A growing body of psychological research suggests it was something closer to a clinical observation about how the self actually holds together. Read more ›
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The average bereavement policy in Europe gives employees somewhere between three and five days for the death of an immediate family member. In many organisations, less for extended family. The logic underneath these numbers is not stated explicitly — it rarely is — but it is not hard to read. Three days is enough time ... Read more Read more ›
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A study published in Nature Communications found that a 50 per cent chance of pain is more stressful than pain itself — which reframes premature decisions as a coping mechanism, not a personality trait. By the Silicon Canals Editorial Team  · June 22, 2026 There is a story people tell about themselves when they settle a ... Read more Read more ›
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In late 2024, the Pew Research Center surveyed more than 5,000 employed Americans and found that 52 per cent were worried about how AI might be used in their workplace. Roughly a third expected fewer job opportunities for themselves over the long run. Worry, in that data, clearly outweighed excitement. Most coverage takes a number ... Read more Read more ›
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The widow who keeps cooking for two isn't in denial — she's running a routine her body wrote down over decades of marriage, and that routine may be doing the actual work of grief. Read more ›
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How a 51-foot electromechanical calculator, a young Navy lieutenant, and a cot in a Harvard basement chewed through the differential equations behind the implosion bomb at three additions per second. Read more ›
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A fair-weather cumulus cloud the size of a small village holds about 500,000 kilograms of water — the mass of 100 elephants — yet floats because the droplets are scattered across a volume larger than a stadium and the warm air beneath is denser than the cloud spread through it. Read more ›
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Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years at the Alphabet-owned lab. Read more ›
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The man whose open-source code runs inside one of the most-installed pieces of consumer software in history is now building infrastructure for a different kind of fleet: robots, drones, and remote machines expected to come online over the next decade. Read more ›
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The maintained drawer in an otherwise drifting house isn't inconsistency. It's a small, intelligent act of self-regulation built in childhood and quietly load-bearing ever since. Read more ›
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The standard explanation for why high achievers feel insecure is impostor syndrome. But for many, competence was never about pride or achievement. It was a strategy a child invented to avoid being examined too closely — and the strategy outlived its usefulness decades ago. Read more ›
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Japan's largest ride-hailing app, Go, raised ¥88.6 billion ($553 million) in its Tokyo Stock Exchange debut on Tuesday, making it the country's biggest IPO of 2026 . As reported by TechCrunch, the company plans to deploy the proceeds into robotaxi research and strategic acquisitions, positioning itself as the consolidator of a Japanese taxi sector buckling under a demographic crisis. Read more ›
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Inside America's legal but largely unregulated body-broker industry, where a donated human head sells for around $300 and a single donor disassembled can generate more than $10,000 across a dozen buyers. Read more ›
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The assumption is easy to make. Someone follows everything, likes nothing and posts never, and we file them away as disengaged, shy or quietly judging the rest of us. On most platforms, though, that person is not the exception. They are the room. The people who post are a small minority of the people who ... Read more Read more ›
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There is a certain kind of person who keeps their plans to themselves. They are working on something, clearly, but they will not say what until it exists. It is easy to read this as a personality trait, a preference for secrecy, or a slightly cold unwillingness to let other people in. There is a ... Read more Read more ›
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When someone strikes us as classy, the first explanation that arrives is usually money. Good schools, a certain ease, the right clothes, parents who could afford all three. Class, in the everyday sense, gets treated as something you either inherit or buy. The psychology of social class and behaviour does not support that story as ... Read more Read more ›
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