Category: Current
Texas just sued Shein. The part about toxic clothing is harder to ignore.
Shein generated $30 billion in global revenue in 2023. On February 20, 2026, Texas sued it. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against Shein US Services LLC under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, alleging two things: the company sells products containing Shein toxic chemicals at unsafe levels, and it routes American consumer data to…
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant: the last line that changes everything
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant was published in 1884. It takes about fifteen minutes to read. The last line takes considerably longer to recover from. You will know it when you get there. Most people put the story down for a moment afterward. Not because they did not see it coming. Because somewhere underneath…
Why Fathers Struggle Most at One Year
Most parenting advice focuses on the adrenaline-fueled “fourth trimester,” but recent data has finally pinpointed why new fathers struggle most at one year. The sleepless nights, the feeds at 3am, the particular madness of not knowing what you are doing while being entirely responsible for a person who cannot tell you. Everyone checks in during…
Does cannabis affect memory? it does not just blur it
Does Cannabis affect memory? You remember it clearly. The conversation. The thing that was said. The version of events that has quietly become the official version inside your head. You were there. You are sure of it. But what if you were high? And what if being high did not just make the memory vaguer?…
What Hysterical Really Means: a history of the word
What does hysterical mean? History of the word traces back further than most people expect. Not to the 1950s housewife quietly losing her mind in a suburb. Not to the Victorian woman on a fainting couch. Further. To ancient Greece, and to a single anatomical assumption that shaped how medicine treated women for the next…
What I learnt from a cab driver in london
What I learnt from a cab driver in London is probably something not many people have even if they are frequent passengers in London. This encounter revealed how change, belonging, and loss intertwine in ways that resist simple stories or easy judgments. I got in the cab because I needed to stop thinking. I did…
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…
The Tiger in the Tunnel by Ruskin Bond: the story about what fathers leave behind
The Tiger in the Tunnel by Ruskin Bond is not really about a tiger. You suspected this the first time you read it. You probably could not have said why. Now you can. It is about an axe. It is about a lamp. It is about a twelve-year-old boy sitting alone in the dark with…
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,…
