Category: Current
This week’s good news the algorithm did not show you
Good news this week is buried under the usual avalanche of conflict, politics and economic anxiety. Which means most of the genuinely hopeful things that happened in the last seven days never made your feed. Here they are. The blindness epidemic nobody talks about is retreating Trachoma is the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness.…
The world as we knew it, as of yesterday, is no more
Khamenei dead. Three words that would have seemed impossible yesterday. Three words that make February 28, 2026 a date that does not unhappen. By the time most people woke up this morning, the United States and Israel had launched a major joint military operation against Iran. Hundreds of strikes. Explosions across Tehran, Qom, Isfahan, Kermanshah.…
From near-bankruptcy to £112 Billion: the Rolls-Royce turnaround nobody saw coming
Rolls-Royce hit a record high on the London Stock Exchange today. Then it hit another one. It has been doing this virtually every trading day of 2026. This morning the company announced underlying operating profit of £3.46 billion for 2025, a 40 percent increase on the previous year and ahead of every analyst forecast. It…
The world is getting better. here’s the proof.
Good news stories in 2026 are harder to find than they should be. Not because good things are not happening but because the human brain is wired to pay more attention to threats than progress. Slow, steady improvement does not trigger the same alarm response as crisis. The news cycle has a negativity problem. Not…
Bad Bunny Grammy win. the room will never be the same.
Bad Bunny Grammy win wrote a new chapter in history on February 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. His album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, which translates to “I Should Have Taken More Photos,” became the first Spanish-language album in the history of the Grammy Awards to win Album of the Year. In 68 years of the…
The pulsar sound, the damru, and the story we cannot stop telling
Discover the real story behind the viral Pulsar Sound Meaning story on social media It is late at night. You are scrolling, half-awake. Then a video stops you cold. A blue-black image of deep space. A caption: “Real Pulsar Sound Meaning” You press play. A steady beat fills your ears. Slow. Even. Unwavering. Like something…
Zuckerberg in Court: the day social media addiction became a legal fact
Social media addiction trial went live in Los Angeles on February 9, 2026. Not as a talking point. Not as a parental concern debated on morning television. As a legal allegation, argued before a jury, backed by internal company documents, and capable of producing damages that could reshape the entire technology industry. Mark Zuckerberg, the…
The psychology of news cycle: why certain stories hit different
The psychology of news cycle is not a new field of study. But it has never mattered more than it does right now. At any given moment in 2026, a person with a smartphone has access to more information about more crises, conflicts, elections, disasters, and scandals than any human being in history has ever…
El Mencho is dead. now what?
El Mencho is dead. On February 22, 2026, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, the founder and leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, known worldwide by his alias El Mencho, was killed during a Mexican Army operation in the mountain town of Tapalpa, Jalisco. He was 59 years old. He had a $15 million bounty on…
We said we were going back to the moon. we keep not going.
The Artemis II delay is the latest setback in NASA’s effort to return humans to the Moon for the first time since 1972. This week, NASA was one day away from announcing a launch date. The rocket was on the pad. The crew had come out of quarantine. Engineers had just completed a successful fuelling…
