Apparently, the universe has a sweet tooth. Astronomers just found a sugar— called erythrulose floating around in the vast, cold, existential void we call the interstellar medium. Yes, space. The same place that gave us black holes, cosmic loneliness, and the occasional existential crisis now casually sprinkles in […]
Is a little chaos actually good for us? I have a theory. A little chaos is good for us. Not the kind of chaos that destroys everything. Not the “hide your passport and call your lawyer” kind of chaos. I mean the kind that throws your back against […]
We’ve been told to “eat clean.” More fresh produce. More leafy greens. More berries. More herbs. Farmers’ markets. Pre-washed salads. That virtuous little drizzle of olive oil that says, I have my life together. And yet this week, nearly 2,000 people across the U.S. got sick from a […]
Apparently, somewhere in Spain, a physicist woke up and chose chaos. How so? By proving that humans, across cultures, ages, and continents, cannot for the life of us walk in a straight line. We drift left. Universally. Our feet drift left. Like some subtle, collective lean toward mischief […]
In what might be the greatest psychological experiment no one meant to run, an Icelandic TV station accidentally aired a children’s show with subtitles from The Sopranos. Not just any scene. The intervention scene.For Christopher. Now imagine, if you will—, weet, bouncy, technicolor innocence from Teletubbies. Laa-Laa. Po. […]
Apparently, new research suggests that leaders who oppose remote work may have higher levels of narcissism. The theory? They crave attention. Validation. The admiring gaze of employees nodding in conference rooms and laughing just a little too hard at their jokes. And listen, I love a good psychological […]
This Fourth of July, I celebrated freedom the old-fashioned way: by accidentally achieving it. Not metaphorical freedom. Not “out of office but secretly checking Slack every 11 minutes” freedom. I mean full-blown, Founding Fathers would weep, unreachable freedom. I went on a family trip. I saw relatives I […]
There is a new trend out of South Korea that feels both deeply innovative and slightly existential. They are called dopamine sites. You browse. You select. You add to cart. A courier accepts your order.You can even track the delivery in real time. And then nothing arrives. It […]
Fourteen years ago, I started a blog with absolutely no plan. No content calendar.No brand strategy.No “voice and tone” guide approved by a committee of people who say things like “circle back.” Just vibes. And yet, here we are. Fourteen years later. Still typing. Still observing. Still mildly […]
This may be the most 2026 headline we get all year. A DoorDash delivery robot wandered into an active SWAT scene and refused to evacuate. Of course it did. Why wouldn’t it? The robot has no amygdala. No anxiety. No “maybe I should not be here while heavily […]
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