Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi did not find the deepest form of human aliveness where modern culture often tells us to look for it. Not in total comfort. Not in passive ease. Not in the blank relief of finally doing nothing. He found it in the opposite place: in hard, absorbing activity that demanded so much attention that ... Read more Read more ›
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About 90 percent of American children born in 1940 grew up to earn more than their parents did at the same age. For children born in the 1980s, that share dropped to roughly 50 percent. That is the finding at the centre of The Fading American Dream, published in December 2016 by a team led ... Read more Read more ›
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For most of the twentieth century, finding a partner in America was a community project. Family made introductions. Church socials, neighbourhood gatherings, and the friend who knew someone worth meeting did the quiet work of pairing people off. That arrangement held for most of the century, but no longer. A study of American couples found ... Read more Read more ›
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“It is in no man’s power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn’t got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.” So writes Seneca, in Robin Campbell’s Penguin translation, near the close of the fifth of his ... Read more Read more ›
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My dad spent the better part of forty years walking into the same office. When he finally retired, we threw him the dinner, made the toasts, and told him he’d earned every slow morning coming his way. He smiled and agreed. Six months later he was one of the loneliest men I knew, and he ... Read more Read more ›
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Roughly 300 million people live along the Sahel, the semi-arid belt on the Sahara's southern edge where rainfall is scarce, soils are thin, and a single failed harvest cascades into crisis because there is almost no safety net to catch it. Read more ›
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The African Union's Great Green Wall is meant to run 8,000 kilometres from Senegal's Atlantic coast to Djibouti's Red Sea shore — a belt of restored land long enough to cross the continental United States twice. Nearly two decades in, only a fraction has actually taken root, and the project has quietly redefined what a wall of trees can be. Read more ›
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In 1991, two researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory pointed a grey-scale camera at a coffee jug to save themselves a wasted trip down the stairs — and accidentally built the world's first webcam, watched by 2.4 million people before it was switched off in 2001. Read more ›
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There is a familiar misreading of quiet people in loud rooms. They are assumed to be hesitant, under-confident, uninterested, or simply not pushing themselves hard enough. But the person who does their best thinking alone and feels emptied out after a long stretch of socialising may not be falling short of the room. They may ... Read more Read more ›
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The twenty-minute parking lot pause looks like poor time management. It is actually a self-engineered threshold ritual — a small, defended pocket of autonomy in a day otherwise structured by other people's demands. Read more ›
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The 1989 geomagnetic storm is remembered as Quebec's nine-hour blackout. The more revealing casualty was a transformer at Salem nuclear station in New Jersey, quietly destroyed the same night — a warning about how solar storms actually damage a modern grid. Read more ›
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The New York Times and Daily News have accused OpenAI of concealing internal tools capable of searching its training data and ChatGPT conversation logs for copyrighted material, escalating a copyright battle that could reshape the economics of generative AI. The plaintiffs are now asking the court to sanction OpenAI for allegedly obstructing discovery. Read more ›
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We are writers and editors, not clinicians, psychologists, or therapists. What follows is our reading of a pair of recent studies, not advice about your own screen habits or wellbeing. The research described here is observational and correlational, and population-level patterns are not diagnoses or predictions about any individual reader. In March 2025, OpenAI and ... Read more Read more ›
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In 1991, Cambridge computer scientists Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky pointed a grayscale camera at a coffee pot outside the Trojan Room to spare themselves three flights of stairs — and accidentally built the world's first webcam. Here's how a 128×128 pixel workaround for a mundane annoyance turned into the template for every livestream on the planet. Read more ›
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Some friendships don't end in conflict — they simply thin until neither of you is quite sure when the last real conversation happened. Psychologists call this ambiguous loss, and it may be one of the most under-grieved experiences of adult life. Read more ›
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SK Hynix's $26.5 billion U.S. market debut is the largest IPO by a non-American company in U.S. history. Read more ›
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For roughly a billion years — from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago — Earth's oceans went chemically stagnant, oxygen stalled, and life did nothing much except reproduce as microbial slime. Geologists call it the Boring Billion, and it is the longest uneventful chapter in the planet's history. Read more ›
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In June of 2025, Amazon said it had put its one millionth robot to work, a unit sent to a warehouse in Japan, across more than 300 sites worldwide. “We’ve just deployed our 1 millionth robot, building on our position as the world’s largest manufacturer and operator of mobile robotics,” said Scott Dresser, a vice ... Read more Read more ›
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A 20-year study of more than 700 children found that how a five-year-old got on with others predicted adult employment and college graduation, holding up even after early reading level was taken into account. Read more ›
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We are writers and editors, not clinicians, psychologists, or therapists. What follows is our reading of published research, not advice. The studies here are mostly observational or small, and a pattern across a group of people is not a prescription for any one reader’s life. When we feel stressed, most of us reach for something ... Read more Read more ›
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