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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“You can be really old at 60 and really young at 85.” She said it, as it happens, while cheerfully listing everything that had gone wrong with her body. Replaced knees, replaced hips, no more skiing, no more running. Which is exactly what gives the line its weight. She wasn’t claiming you can stay physically ... Read more Read more ›
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There’s a particular sort of person who is genuinely, reliably lovely to absolutely everyone, and who, if you look closely enough, has nobody they’d actually call a close friend. Warm to all. Available to many. Generous with their time, their attention, their patience. And, without ever quite noticing they’re doing it, letting not one single ... Read more Read more ›
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The candle, the made bed, the parted curtains aren't aesthetic performance. They're a small, evidence-backed act of jurisdiction over the only stretch of the day that hasn't yet been claimed by someone else. Read more ›
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The story sold to consumers is that the air conditioner in the window is essentially a finished technology — a machine that just needs a greener refrigerant and a smarter thermostat to ride out the climate century. Read more ›
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A 2010 Harvard study used an iPhone app to sample 2,250 people in the moment. Minds wandered 46.9 per cent of the time, and where attention went predicted momentary happiness better than the activity itself. A careful read of what the study shows, and what it does not. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's $288 million political donation in 2024 broke every previous record for individual electoral spending in the United States — exceeding Adelson, Soros, and the Koch brothers combined in real terms. The structural consequences of that single cheque are still unfolding. Read more ›
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On July 22, 1962, Mariner 1 became the first American interplanetary probe — and the first to be destroyed in flight. The cause was a single missing overbar in a handwritten guidance equation, which turned a smoothing instruction into a command to chase radar noise. Read more ›
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Sponge divers found a corroded bronze lump in a Roman shipwreck off Antikythera in 1901. X-ray scans revealed at least 30 interlocking gears built around 100 BC to predict eclipses and planetary positions — a mechanical computer 1,400 years ahead of anything comparable. Read more ›
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The reflex to apologise for crying alone isn't oversensitivity — it's a leftover safety protocol from a childhood spent regulating somebody else's emotions. Here's what developmental research says about why the apology lingers, and how to put it down. Read more ›
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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon disclosed that his company is now working on more than 40 different AI wearable designs — from camera-equipped earbuds to jewelry, pins and watches — and positioned Qualcomm as the default silicon layer beneath whatever device category eventually displaces the smartphone. Read more ›
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In 1969, a fireball broke over the Victorian town of Murchison and scattered carbon-rich stones across the paddocks. Inside them sat grains of silicon carbide that condensed in dying stars roughly 7 billion years ago — older than the Sun, older than the Earth, and the most ancient solid material ever held in a human hand. 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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