Category: Current
Adult ADHD : are we disordered, or just paying attention to the wrong things?
Adult ADHD has become one of the defining medical conversations of the 2020s. A 2024 meta-analysis in The Lancet Psychiatry puts the global figure at 366.3 million adults. In the US alone, 15.5 million have been diagnosed, roughly half of them in adulthood rather than childhood. Online searches for ADHD grew by 270 percent across…
Proto-Writing stone age: the 40,000-year-old marks that rewrote history
Proto-writing Stone Age artifacts are forcing a rewrite of one of humanity’s oldest assumptions. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on February 24, 2026 analysed more than 3,000 geometric signs carved into 260 objects from cave sites in the Swabian Jura, a mountain range in southwestern Germany. The objects…
Hustle culture is dead. what killed it?
Hustle culture is dead. had a good run. For roughly a decade, the grind was the gospel. Wake up at 5am. Optimise every hour. Sleep when you are dead. Your LinkedIn profile was your altar. Your productivity system was your prayer. The corner office was the promised land. Then something shifted. Not quietly. Loudly, measurably,…
Attention economy news cycle: when apple’s big week met the world’s worst one
Attention economy news cycle reached a kind of peak absurdity this week. On Monday morning, Tim Cook posted a short video to his social media accounts. Colourful Apple logo. The hashtag #AppleLaunch. A teaser for what he called a big week ahead, with at least five new products rolling out across three days, culminating in…
Indian creek island: why the world’s richest men are all moving to one place
Indian Creek Island is a 300-acre strip of man-made land in Biscayne Bay, Miami. It has 41 homes. Its own government. Its own police force that patrols by land and by sea. A single guarded bridge to the mainland, where visitors show ID and may have their vehicles inspected before being allowed through. Yesterday, Mark…
Polycrisis: what happens to the human mind when everything goes wrong at once
Polycrisis is not a new word. It is a new reality. It describes what is happening right now, this week, today. Multiple large-scale crises arriving simultaneously, each one serious enough to dominate the news cycle on its own, each one amplifying the others, none of them resolving while the next one lands. Here is what…
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…
