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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Brain scans of new fathers show measurable changes — which might explain why so many dads describe the first year of parenthood as feeling like learning to be a different person
Psilocybin research is no longer just for hard-to-treat cases — a new trial targeted recurrent depression in people who had not failed standard treatment, and the results are promising
The science of why some people seem to age dramatically slower than others is mostly the science of one thing — cumulative sun exposure — and what looks like good genes in someone's seventies is usually fifty years of quiet sun protection that nobody, including the person, ever consciously planned
In a Beijing laboratory, 25 volunteers spent a week learning to fly with feathered virtual-reality wings — flapping to stay aloft, swerving through rings, swatting falling balls — and by the end, their brains were processing images of wings the same way they process images of real human limbs
Thought of the day by Albert Einstein: "The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."
75% of Americans say they would trust AI shopping recommendations less if results were sponsored — which means OpenAI just made a decision that could structurally damage the thing that makes it valuable
A new meta-analysis of 27 studies just changed what I'm most afraid of about sugar — it turns out the craving isn't the worst part
For much of human history, survival did not necessarily require a day filled with labour
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Seneca: 'It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.'
In 1955, British historian C. Northcote Parkinson wrote a satirical essay about government bureaucracy. Seventy years later, the law that came from it may be more relevant than ever.
