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…
Dire Wolf: The Resurrection That Is Not Quite What It Seems
Dire wolf is no longer extinct. That sentence is both true and, depending on who you ask, deeply misleading. On April 7, 2025, Colossal Biosciences announced that three wolf pups named Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi were alive and growing in a secret 2,000-acre preserve somewhere in the United States. The company called them the world’s…
Why the 90s Feel More Real Than Yesterday
What were you like in the 90s? The question is everywhere right now. On social media. In comment sections. In the particular glow that comes over someone’s face when a certain song starts playing. But here is what nobody asking the question has told you. The reason the 90s feel the way they feel has…
The Drug That Works Like Magic Mushrooms but Keeps You in the Room
Psilocybin without hallucinations has been the goal of psychedelic medicine for most of the last decade. This week, for the first time, something that looks credibly like an answer arrived. On March 7, researchers published a study in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry describing a chemically modified version of psilocin, the active compound your body…
Pi Number: The Most Fascinating Number in the Universe
Pi number is the most famous number in existence. It is also the strangest, the most obsessed over, and arguably the most important. You probably know it as 3.14. You probably know it has something to do with circles. What you might not know is that Pi turns up where circles are nowhere in sight,…
Are Night Owls More Sadistic? A New Study Says Yes and the Reason Is Fascinating
Are night owls more sadistic? It sounds like the kind of question designed to generate outrage clicks. It is also, as of December 2025, a question with a genuine scientific answer. The answer is yes. Measurably. Across two separate studies, using two different populations and two different methods. People who naturally prefer staying up late…
Does Personality Predict Support for War? A New Study Has a Disturbing Answer
Does personality predict support for war? The question sounds abstract until the week it is published, which happened to be the same week missiles hit Tehran and three American soldiers came home in coffins. A study by researchers Alexander Yendell and David Herbert, published in the journal Politics and Governance, surveyed over a thousand people…
Moral Fatigue: Why Good People Stop Caring Online
Moral fatigue is not apathy. That distinction matters. The person who has stopped retweeting every crisis, stopped signing every petition, stopped feeling the same spike of outrage at the fifteenth injustice of the week that they felt at the first, is not a bad person who has stopped caring. They are a normal person whose…
Pretend Play Apes: The Study That Changed What It Means to Be Human
Pretend play apes. That sentence would have been scientifically controversial five years ago. It is now the conclusion of a peer-reviewed study published in the journal Science in February 2026. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the University of St Andrews set up a tea party with empty cups, an empty pitcher, and a bonobo…
Meaning of Home: When Home Stops Being a Place
Meaning of home changes. Nobody warns you when it happens, or that it will happen more than once. The first time it happens quietly. You go back to where you grew up and something is off. The streets are the same. The smell of the kitchen is the same. But you are sitting at a…
