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Discover our articles through six categories, each offering a different lens on human behavior, power, culture, and technology.

  • Digital

B2B companies keep investing in lead gen and keep hating the results

  • News

Research suggests people who keep an old phone long after it’s considered obsolete aren’t being stubborn or cheap — they’re resisting a replacement cycle deliberately designed to manufacture dissatisfaction with things that still work perfectly well

  • News

I noticed somewhere around 36 that I had stopped being bored — not because my life was so full, but because I had filled every quiet moment with a screen, and when I understood what I’d actually traded away, I put the phone in a drawer for a week

  • Digital

Why spending more on marketing is often the most expensive mistake

  • Digital

Your ad dollars are funding someone else’s propaganda and the algorithm doesn’t care

  • Psychology

Nobody talks about what it actually feels like to be replaced by a system that doesn’t know your name and doesn’t need to

  • News

If someone over 50 has gone completely quiet on social media, something more interesting than disengagement is usually happening — and these 7 shifts explain what that silence is actually communicating

  • News

Psychology says people who mute notifications, cancel news alerts, and deliberately slow their information intake aren’t disengaged from the world — they’re exhibiting a self-regulatory response that researchers now associate with better long-term civic judgment

  • Digital

7 quiet ways the algorithm already knows you better than your closest friends do — and why the people who built it are counting on you never thinking about that

  • News

I used to fall asleep with the television on for background noise and I thought it was harmless until my doctor asked me how long I’d been waking at 3am — and I couldn’t even remember when it started

  • The Noise

Half of 2016’s hottest buzzwords will embarrass you by 2018

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Psychology

Nobody talks about what it actually feels like to be replaced by a system that doesn’t know your name and doesn’t need to

Nobody prepared this generation for the feeling of watching the world destabilise in real time while still being expected to go to work, answer emails, and act normal

The specific grief of watching a sibling become a stranger — not because of a fight, but because you both survived the same house and came out as completely different people

The specific grief of watching a sibling become a stranger — not because of a fight, but because you both survived the same house and came out as completely different people

Psychology says the people who feel most unsettled by AI aren’t technophobes — they’re the ones paying closest attention

People who grew up mediating their parents' marriage often become adults who can read a room in seconds but can't figure out what they actually want

People who grew up mediating their parents’ marriage often become adults who can read a room in seconds but can’t figure out what they actually want

The strange relief of being disliked by someone after years of contorting yourself to be universally acceptable

The strange relief of being disliked by someone after years of contorting yourself to be universally acceptable

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Politics

Pope Leo XIV rebuked Trump on Iran. The White House silence reveals how moral authority actually works now.

Pope Leo XIV rebuked Trump on Iran. The White House silence reveals how moral authority actually works now.

Oil supply won't snap back after the Iran ceasefire — here's what traders and insurers are waiting for

Oil supply won’t snap back after the Iran ceasefire — here’s what traders and insurers are waiting for

Why Khamenei let the world see him deal with Trump — and what it reveals about authoritarian de-escalation

Why Khamenei let the world see him deal with Trump — and what it reveals about authoritarian de-escalation

Anthropic built an AI hacker so powerful it scared itself — exposing the gap no government can close

Anthropic built an AI hacker so powerful it scared itself — exposing the gap no government can close

The Oman channel's quiet diplomacy faces its loudest threat yet: a public deadline from Trump

The Oman channel’s quiet diplomacy faces its loudest threat yet: a public deadline from Trump

The psychology of how nations talk themselves into wars, explained through the Iran decision

The psychology of how nations talk themselves into wars, explained through the Iran decision

Elon Musk just announced a $20 billion chip factory in Texas — and the story underneath it is that the AI race has hit a physical bottleneck that no software fix can solve

Social media companies have spent a decade arguing they’re not publishers — courts are now asking whether they’re something more dangerous: product designers whose choices cause measurable harm

Congress holds the stamp — and the survival of an American institution

Band-Aids on mail trucks and a watchdog who stopped barking

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Culture

Euphoria Season 3 is a show haunted by real death — and it knows it

Euphoria Season 3 is a show haunted by real death — and it knows it

The 42,000 LA jobs streaming killed weren't actors — they were the middle-class economy behind the camera

The 42,000 LA jobs streaming killed weren’t actors — they were the middle-class economy behind the camera

The $63 billion gap between what music is worth and what music means

The $63 billion gap between what music is worth and what music means

Inside the $63 billion gap between what music is worth and what music means

Inside the $63 billion gap between what music is worth and what music means

Why a toilet malfunction on the most watched spacecraft in a generation became the most human moment of the mission

What you silently forward to your friend late at night is often the closest thing to a diary entry most people will ever share online

Collaboration isn’t the strategy — it’s the admission that your solo approach failed

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Digital

B2B companies keep investing in lead gen and keep hating the results

Why spending more on marketing is often the most expensive mistake

Your ad dollars are funding someone else’s propaganda and the algorithm doesn’t care

7 quiet ways the algorithm already knows you better than your closest friends do — and why the people who built it are counting on you never thinking about that

2017 DMN Awards finalists and the campaigns that earned their place

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Analysis

Why one mother learned to read soil: The psychology behind Mexico's citizen search brigades

Why one mother learned to read soil: The psychology behind Mexico’s citizen search brigades

7 quiet ways men lose their close friendships without ever having a falling out — and the research behind why it’s getting worse

U-visa rollbacks are creating a public safety crisis: 911 calls plummet as immigrant victims choose silence

U-visa rollbacks are creating a public safety crisis: 911 calls plummet as immigrant victims choose silence

What happens to the guy who’s been doing the manual job for 20 years when the robot shows up Monday to replace him

Why the people who never post anything online often understand digital culture more precisely than those who post everything

What the most cynical marketing campaigns in history have in common

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News

Research suggests people who keep an old phone long after it’s considered obsolete aren’t being stubborn or cheap — they’re resisting a replacement cycle deliberately designed to manufacture dissatisfaction with things that still work perfectly well

I noticed somewhere around 36 that I had stopped being bored — not because my life was so full, but because I had filled every quiet moment with a screen, and when I understood what I’d actually traded away, I put the phone in a drawer for a week

If someone over 50 has gone completely quiet on social media, something more interesting than disengagement is usually happening — and these 7 shifts explain what that silence is actually communicating

Psychology says people who mute notifications, cancel news alerts, and deliberately slow their information intake aren’t disengaged from the world — they’re exhibiting a self-regulatory response that researchers now associate with better long-term civic judgment

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