Charisma has a reputation problem. We tend to treat it as a private voltage: some people walk into a room with it, others do not, and the rest of us are left admiring or resenting the difference. The research led by John Antonakis at the University of Lausanne points to a less mystical reading. In ... Read more Read more ›
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Years ago in Dublin, I was working in finance and I did the thing you are not supposed to do at your desk. I looked up. Not at the ceiling, at the people ten and fifteen years ahead of me on the same ladder I was climbing. The ones who had done everything right. And ... Read more Read more ›
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The obvious reading of a first-time homebuyer reaching a median age of 40 is that young Americans are waiting longer by choice, renting into their late thirties, delaying the whole project of settling down. The data, however, points the other way. The National Association of REALTORS reported in November 2025 that the first-time buyer share ... Read more Read more ›
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The loneliness that arrives in midlife is often not a sign of failing at relationships. It tends to fall on the people who spent two decades being the reliable one, and left no room for themselves. Read more ›
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Every time you type a question into a chatbot, the reply feels weightless. But the machines that produce it run hot, and cooling them takes water. One 2025 estimate does the maths: multiply a single chatbot reply by roughly 700 million a day, across a year, and the water lost to cooling would match a ... Read more Read more ›
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On April 29, 2020, a single bolt of lightning stretched 768 kilometres across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi — long enough to force the World Meteorological Organization to rewrite what a lightning strike can be. Read more ›
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The usual story about people who stay fit into their 70s is a story about exceptional character. They must be more motivated. They must have better genes. They must enjoy pain, discipline, early mornings, strict routines, and the kind of private willpower most people cannot sustain. It is a clean story, but it explains less ... Read more Read more ›
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The friendships people carry into old age often look, from the outside, like proof of loyalty. Two people still call each other after fifty years. Three old friends still meet for lunch. A school friend still knows the family story without needing the short version. It is easy to explain this as sentiment: they stayed ... Read more Read more ›
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The uncomfortable part of happiness research is not that money fails to matter, or that relationships fail to matter, or that health fails to matter. All three matter. The uncomfortable part is that none of them fully protects a person from the habit of being elsewhere. A person can be sitting in a safe home, ... Read more Read more ›
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When an older adult starts giving things away, the easy reading is that they are preparing to disappear. The furniture, the jewellery, the books, the tools, the boxes of photographs: each departure can look like a small surrender. There is another way to read it. Sometimes the person is not letting go of the past. ... Read more Read more ›
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One number from Microsoft’s June report spread fast: 275. That is how many times, on average, a worker gets interrupted in a day by a meeting, an email, or a chat notification. Spread across normal work hours, that works out to an interruption roughly every two minutes. The figure came from Microsoft’s WorkLab, which published ... Read more Read more ›
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Nearly three in ten American homes now contain exactly one person. In 1940 the figure was fewer than one in ten. That shift, measured across eight decades, is one of the largest changes in how the country lives, and it happened without a single defining moment to mark it. he U.S. Census Bureau put a ... Read more Read more ›
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As MIT Technology Review put it, “generating an image using a powerful AI model takes as much energy as fully charging your smartphone.” That figure came from a single study and describes one particularly heavy model, not image generation in general but a striking comparison is it. The study behind the number The figure traces ... Read more Read more ›
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In Britain’s biggest four-day-week trial, 71 percent of employees said they felt less burnt out by the end. That figure, not anything about profit or output, is the one that stands out. Whether the shorter week would hurt productivity had a fairly predictable answer. What it would do to people did not. We are writers ... Read more Read more ›
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What the IMF did not say on Wednesday matters as much as what it did. Read more ›
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In 1946, six women at the Moore School of Engineering were handed the wiring diagrams for ENIAC and told to program it without manuals. The ballistic trajectory they got running became the first working software ever demonstrated on a general-purpose electronic computer — and their names were left off the press release. Read more ›
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General Intuition, a startup building what it describes as a foundation model for embodied AI, has raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation on the thesis that robotics is approaching the same inflection point language AI crossed with GPT-3. The company's approach — training on millions of hours of video game data rather than real-world robot telemetry — was detailed by TechCrunch this week. Read more ›
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The person who has cooked the same five meals for thirty years isn't stuck in a rut. They've built something quieter and more durable: mastery of a small domain, and the self-respect that comes with it. Read more ›
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On September 1, 1859, a solar flare witnessed by Richard Carrington triggered a geomagnetic storm so powerful it lit up the tropics with auroras and let North American telegraph operators send messages using only current induced by the sky. Read more ›
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Washing a mug the moment you set it down isn't about tidiness — it's a small, repeatable act of self-management that hijacks the brain's avoidance circuitry before it has a chance to fire. The psychology of why the tiniest completions carry disproportionate weight. Read more ›
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