Tag: Modern Psychology
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,…
The night you reached for it
Does cannabis help anxiety or make it worse? For the millions using medical cannabis for mental health, a landmark 2026 study just delivered an uncomfortable answer. You know the feeling. The day has been too much. Your chest is tight, your thoughts won’t stop, and sleep feels like something that happens to other people. So…
Does your partner change your personality? the research says more than you think
Does your partner change your personality? Most people would say yes, in a vague, intuitive way. You pick up their phrases. You start watching the shows they like. You order differently at restaurants than you did before. Small things. Surface things. The research published this week in Clinical Psychological Science suggests the change goes considerably…
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…
What I learnt from my kurdish barber in london
What I learnt from my barber in London is something I realised only after the haircut was done and when I was already outside. That is the thing about a good story. It keeps you warm long enough that you do not notice you are leaving with less than you came for. It was one…
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.…
What is dharma? what the mahabharata knew about losing everything
What is Dharma? It is the question the Mahabharata spends eighteen books answering and never quite resolves. That is not a failure of the text. That is the point. The oldest stories we have are not about winning. They are about what a person does when the ground gives way. When the thing they built…
Why dont men ask follow-up questions? the answer is more interesting than you think
Why dont men ask follow-up questions is one of those complaints that surfaces constantly. In dating conversations. In friendships. In marriages that have been running for twenty years. A woman finishes saying something. A man responds. He does not ask what happened next. He does not ask how she felt. He moves on or offers…
