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The adults who stay genuinely happy in their 70s and 80s aren’t the ones with the most family nearby — they’re the ones with at least one relationship in which they’re still allowed to be fully honest
about 18 hours ago
My grand-aunt sat at the head of every family table for as...
The art of small talk: 10 subtle phrases that make people light up when you first meet them
about 22 hours ago
For years my actual job was to make strangers feel like regulars...
Corgi, a startup that insures other startups, doubled its valuation to $2.6 billion three weeks after its last round — and because the same investors backed both, the jump is drawing quiet scrutiny over “internal markups”
1 day ago
Corgi, a business-insurance startup that sells coverage to other startups, announced on...
Retirees who move overseas often report being happy with their new lives while also feeling lonelier — because paradise cannot automatically replace the relationships left behind
2 days ago
A retirement move can succeed on nearly every term used to justify...
When psychologists asked people to log what they were doing hour by hour, roughly 43 percent of daily behaviour turned out to be habit — done in the same place while the mind was somewhere else entirely
2 days ago
Wendy Wood, a psychologist, handed pagers to a group of undergraduates and...
People who find it physically uncomfortable to look someone in the eye during a compliment aren’t insecure or evasive — they’re often the ones who take in emotional information so directly that full eye contact during something kind becomes almost t
2 days ago
The last time I paid someone a proper compliment, they looked at...
The EU’s AI Act starts requiring chatbot and deepfake labels on August 2 — while its tougher rules on hiring, biometrics and migration are pushed back to December 2027
2 days ago
On August 2, 2026, the European Union’s AI Act reaches the deadline...
Hyper-vigilance isn’t a personality trait — it’s a stress response first documented in combat veterans, and researchers later found the same scanning-for-danger reflex in children raised around unpredictable moods
2 days ago
In 1941, the psychiatrist Abram Kardiner published The Traumatic Neuroses of War...
Sociologist Arlie Hochschild coined the term ’emotional labor’ in 1983 to describe flight attendants — four decades on, the same unpaid work has migrated into friendships, families and Slack channels
2 days ago
In 1983, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild watched a Delta Air Lines training...
We tend to think perceptiveness is a gift some people are born with, but for many it’s a survival skill — the ability to feel tension before a word is spoken is often a nervous system that once needed to predict the storm
2 days ago
Stephen Porges, the neuroscientist who introduced polyvagal theory, gave a name to...
Tardigrades can survive being boiled, frozen to near absolute zero, blasted with radiation, and shot into the vacuum of space, and they do it by dehydrating themselves into a glassy state that essentially pauses their biology until water returns
2 days ago
A tardigrade dropped into liquid nitrogen at minus 272 degrees Celsius, boiled...
Psychology says people who go very still when they’re upset — no fidgeting, no shifting, almost no movement — aren’t calm or indifferent; they’re often the ones for whom stillness became the only safe response to something overwhelming
3 days ago
Years ago, in a kitchen I part-owned, I watched a chef come...