Your Brain on Breaking News

The neuroscience behind why the news hooks us like never before (and what to do about it)

America’s Psychiatric Assessment

The U. S. takes to the couch

Nobody Warned Me About the Sand Tiger Shark and I Am Not Okay

This Is What Happens When a Shark Runs Out of Patience

Bricolage origins and evolution

Following my previous blog looking at the growth in bricolage’s popularity, I figured it might be helpful to outline some of the different…

A Project 2025 Architect Got Busted With a Gun and Coke. The Silence Is the Real Story.

Why Are People REALLY Leaving the USA in Record Numbers?

The answer that most mainstream media won’t say outright, in full. So I’ll do it here.

Boulangerie Is a Promise

A 1998 French statute, a Costco delivery in Manhattan, and what a word on a storefront is worth

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is a Conservative Christian Masterpiece

And that’s why MAGA hates it

We Can’t Run — and We Can’t Hide

On feeling like prey in a nature documentary

12 Live Reactions to a Man Explaining My Own Preferences to Me

The gap between what women want and what men believe we want is a chasm

Nobody Wants to Admit This, But Social Media Is Creating Emotionally Fragile People

We have confused visibility with self-worth for so long that many people no longer know who they are without an audience.

10 Websites Better Than Another Hour of Doomscrolling

Here’s to the rabbit holes worth taking!

AI Writing Can Never Make You Forget That You Are Reading

We’ve all been lured into a digital prison and our tormentors don’t even have to lock the door

My First Time Working With Two Women Pilots

The shocking coincidence that made it the best flight ever for all three of us