Author: Shaniya Naz
Five Times the World Refused to Give Up
Here are your 5 pieces of good news from this week. Not the kind that pretend the world is fine. The kind that happened at the same time as everything else. The Fire That Would Not Be Put Out On the evening of March 20th, as bombs were still falling on parts of Iran, families…
Why Are Human Babies So Helpless at Birth?
Why are human babies so helpless at birth? A foal stands within hours of being born. It is unsteady. It staggers. But it is upright, and it is moving, and within a day it can keep pace with the herd. A baby elephant walks the same day. A baby shark swims the same minute. These…
Can Childhood Trauma Cause Ibs and Stomach Problems?
Can childhood trauma cause IBS stomach problems in adults? A major new study on the childhood stress gut brain axis says the answer is yes, and the mechanism is more precise than scientists ever expected. Your stomach hurts. It has always hurt, on and off, for as long as you can remember. You’ve seen doctors,…
Did Wolves Change Yellowstone Rivers? The Beautiful Story That Wasn’t Quite True
Did wolves change Yellowstone rivers? You have probably seen the video. Forty million views. Narrated by the British environmental writer George Monbiot. Wolves return to Yellowstone in 1995. Elk, fearing predation, stop grazing the riverbanks. Vegetation recovers. Beavers return. The beavers build dams. The dams slow the rivers. The rivers change course. A single management…
Five Pieces of Good News March 2026 That Nobody Put in the Feed
There is good news March 2026, quite a lot of it, and none of it made the main feed. Not because it was small. Because the feed runs on alarm, and none of these stories had any. No crisis, no casualty, no countdown. Just things that went quietly, stubbornly right while everything else was loud.…
Brain Rot: The Science Behind the Word Oxford Made Official
Brain rot was a joke until the neuroscience caught up with it. Oxford University Press named it Word of the Year for 2024, defining it as the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state from excessive exposure to low-quality online content. The word itself is not new. It first appeared in Henry David…
Therapy Generation Anxiety: The Paradox Nobody Wants to Admit
Therapy generation anxiety is the paradox nobody in the mental health industry wants to talk about. Generation Z is the most therapised generation in history. More young people are in therapy, talking about their feelings, using mental health language, and identifying their emotional states than at any previous point in recorded human history. The stigma…
How the Body Ages: 7 Million Cells Just Gave US the Clearest Answer Yet
How the body ages is one of the oldest questions in medicine. Yesterday, for the first time, we got something close to an answer. A study published in Science on February 26, 2026, by researchers at The Rockefeller University mapped nearly 7 million individual cells across 21 different organs, tracking exactly what happens to each…
Five Good Things That Happened in March 2026 That Nobody Told You About
There is good news March 2026. There is actually a lot of it. The problem is where you have been looking. It is not a rhythm designed to make you feel good about the world. It is a rhythm designed to keep you watching. Alarm. Outrage. Dread. Refresh. Repeat. What gets lost in that rhythm…
What We Inherit from Our Parents (It Is More Than You Think)
What we inherit from our parents is not just their eyes or their temper. It is their unfinished business. The anxiety that arrives before anything has gone wrong. The specific way certain silences feel threatening. The flinch at raised voices in another room. The need to achieve that does not feel like ambition but like…
