Tag: Psychology
Why costa rica has no army and what 77 years without one actually looks like
The question of why Costa Rica has no army is worth asking this week more than most. The world is currently spending $2.4 trillion a year on defence. That is the highest figure ever recorded in human history, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Governments across Europe and Asia are revising their military…
What is Moksha: why liberation is the aim nobody talks about
Moksha is the fourth and final aim of Purushartha, and it is the one modern life has the least language for. Dharma, we understand, at least conceptually. Do the right thing. Live with integrity. Artha we understand extremely well. Earn, build, accumulate. Kama we understand in our bones. Want, pursue, enjoy. But Moksha, the aim…
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,…
Artha meaning: why getting rich is a spiritual duty, not a sin
To understand this properly, we first need to clarify Artha meaning in Hindu philosophy. In the Purusharth framework, Artha is one of the four aims of human life. The word Artha is usually translated as wealth, but that translation is too narrow. Artha refers to material well-being, economic security, power, influence, and the practical means…
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…
Why does nostalgia feel bittersweet? the science behind the ache
Why does nostalgia feel bittersweet? Because you are experiencing two things at once. The pleasure of remembering something good. And the ache of knowing it is gone. Both hit at the same time. That is not a glitch. That is the whole point. Nostalgia is experienced several times a week by most adults. It is…
Confirmation Bias: how we build beliefs and defend them
This article explains confirmation bias explained simply, without academic jargon or political framing. You scroll past a headline that confirms what you already suspected. You feel a small sense of recognition. Of course. That makes sense. You keep reading. Later that day, you encounter an article arguing the opposite. You skim it. Something feels off.…
