Tag: The Present Minds
How Daylight Saving Time Affects Your Body and Sleep
How daylight saving time affects body and sleep is a question most people answer with a shrug and a second coffee. The biology underneath that shrug is more interesting than they think. At 1 a.m. on Sunday, 29th March 2026, I was robbed. No broken window, no barging through the doors. Just silence, and an…
What I learnt from a bus driver in Scotland
What I learnt from a bus driver in Scotland was not something I had packed for, and I had packed for almost everything. Four large bottles of insect repellent. Three face nets in different sizes. Sunglasses. One bottle of water. A tent I had never pitched alone. A backpack that weighed roughly as much as…
Why Fathers Struggle Most at One Year
Most parenting advice focuses on the adrenaline-fueled “fourth trimester,” but recent data has finally pinpointed why new fathers struggle most at one year. The sleepless nights, the feeds at 3am, the particular madness of not knowing what you are doing while being entirely responsible for a person who cannot tell you. Everyone checks in during…
Does cannabis affect memory? it does not just blur it
Does Cannabis affect memory? You remember it clearly. The conversation. The thing that was said. The version of events that has quietly become the official version inside your head. You were there. You are sure of it. But what if you were high? And what if being high did not just make the memory vaguer?…
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen: tv show of the week
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen Netflix review: eight episodes of a feeling that has no name. It dropped on Netflix on March 26th. It is already in the top ten in most of the countries Netflix tracks. And if you have a taste for slow dread, for the horror of anticipation rather than…
What Hysterical Really Means: a history of the word
What does hysterical mean? History of the word traces back further than most people expect. Not to the 1950s housewife quietly losing her mind in a suburb. Not to the Victorian woman on a fainting couch. Further. To ancient Greece, and to a single anatomical assumption that shaped how medicine treated women for the next…
The invisible side of marketing
This is how subtle marketing influence shapes consumer choices now. Have you ever bought something and later wondered whether you actually needed it, or whether something quieter had already made the decision for you? Perhaps it was a piece of jewellery that appeared just often enough while you were scrolling to stay somewhere in the…
What I learnt from a cab driver in london
What I learnt from a cab driver in London is probably something not many people have even if they are frequent passengers in London. This encounter revealed how change, belonging, and loss intertwine in ways that resist simple stories or easy judgments. I got in the cab because I needed to stop thinking. I did…
All the versions of yourself you have already been
There are versions of yourself you have completely forgotten. Not the big ones. Not the you that graduated or moved cities or ended something that needed ending. Those ones you remember. Those ones have stories attached, photographs, the occasional 2am revisit when something in the present nudges something in the past and suddenly you are…
Why we see faces differently: the mind behind the gaze
Why do we see faces differently is a question hiding inside one of the most ordinary moments in human life. “Who does the baby look like? The father or the mother?” The room divides almost immediately. One person notices that the eyes are just like the mother’s. Another compares the smile with the father’s. A…
