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Nato Lagidze

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Nato Lagidze is a writer and researcher at Space Daily with an academic background in psychology. She investigates self-compassion, emotional intelligence, decision-making, and psychological well-being — the kinds of questions that sit at the heart of Space Daily's Mind & Meaning pillar. Her work draws on academic research and applies it to the everyday.

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Human Behaviour

I put six minutes of birdsong through my headphones during the worst week of the year and something in my chest actually loosened

I put six minutes of birdsong through my headphones during the worst week of the year, and something in my chest actually loosened.

Jul 17, 2026

Mind & Meaning

The Moon has been three days away for more than half a century, and almost no one has stopped to ask what it will feel like when stops being the answer to “how far is the Moon” and starts being the answer to “how long is the flight”

I don't think I'm being naive when I say: within my lifetime, "we're going away this year" might mean the Moon instead of Portugal.

Jul 1, 2026

Psychology

Loneliness and solitude produce opposite effects in the brain, which means treating one like the other makes both worse

On a Friday evening, being alone can feel entirely different depending on something I cannot always name right away.

Jun 28, 2026

Human Behaviour

Morning light exposure in the first hour after waking shapes cortisol and alertness for the hours that follow — and most people in modern built environments are not getting it

This article discusses circadian biology and personal experience with light exposure.

Jun 27, 2026

Mind & Meaning

Most cat owners I know assume their older cat is just slowing down with age — veterinary research suggests up to 92% of cats over ten have arthritis, and most are hiding it

The cat sleeps more. It jumps up onto things less. It takes longer to get comfortable and doesn't race around the way it used to.

Jun 24, 2026

Psychology

A viral social media stat claims 70% of Gen Z and Millennials can’t relax because they were taught rest is wasteful — the number isn’t real, but the research behind it is

A few days ago, I came across a stat on social media that stopped my scrolling entirely.

Jun 24, 2026

Human Behaviour

A Cambridge neuroscientist argues your brain fears not knowing more than it fears pain, and the people most at ease sitting inside that not knowing tend to be among the most creative ones in the room

I had the podcast on in the background while I was doing something else entirely.

Jun 23, 2026

Human Behaviour

We keep asking whether humans can survive on Mars and skipping the more important question of whether we should go at all

A few months ago, I found myself deep in a conversation about Mars colonization timelines.

Jun 19, 2026

Psychology

Freud suggested a human life rests on two things, love and work, and the surprise is how modern that still feels — not because romance and career solve everything, but because most people know the strange emptiness of succeeding in one while quietly starving in the other

Sigmund Freud, when asked what a psychologically healthy person should be able to do, reportedly gave an answer so simple it almost sounds like a non-answer: lieben und arbeiten— to love and to work.

Jun 12, 2026

Human Behaviour

Sixty years before ChatGPT, a chatbot called ELIZA was already making people pour their secrets into a computer — and its creator considered that a catastrophe, not a success

Last week, while preparing a presentation for my PhD studies on AI-human connections and human dependence on technology, I fell down a research rabbit hole that caught me completely off guard.

Jun 9, 2026

Psychology

I’ve been studying emotion regulation for 6 years, and I think the most practical skill you can learn is to notice your nervous system before your mind starts writing tragic fiction.

Six years of studying emotion regulation has not given me what people tend to assume it would.

Jun 3, 2026

Psychology

The more I work with AI, the less interested I am in whether it’s conscious and the more interested I am in what happens to human consciousness around it

Today, I came across a note on Substack by Karly V Studio that stopped me mid-scroll.

Jun 3, 2026

Psychology

We talk about anxiety as if it starts in the mind — but for some people, the eyes may be the first place it shows up

The first sign was never a thought. It was visual. Something in the way the room looked.

Jun 2, 2026

Psychology

We have normalised filling every quiet moment with something — podcasts while walking, screens while eating, sound while falling asleep — and the exhaustion most people feel isn’t from doing too much, it’s from never once letting the mind go quiet

Think about the last time you were genuinely, uncomplicatedly bored. No, I do not mean that low-level restlessness that arrives when a meeting runs long — I…

May 29, 2026

Human Behaviour

Sam Altman said he was ‘pretty wrong’ about the jobs apocalypse — and ‘roughly right’ about everything else — four days after OpenAI filed for a trillion-dollar IPO

Let's do the timeline first, because the timeline is doing a lot of work here. On May 22nd, OpenAI filed confidentially for a public listing targeting a valuation of up to one trillion dollars.

May 29, 2026

Science

Social science has a replication problem — a new massive study found that only half of published findings hold up when researchers try to repeat them and many that made it into textbooks

It didn't start with a paper. It started with a classroom. I was teaching a unit on classic social psychology — the foundational studies that most of us in the field absorbed as canonical truth.

May 28, 2026