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Technology, power and human behaviour inside modern systems.
In publication order
A nation smaller than most American cities has cracked the code on startup creation, producing more billion-dollar companies per capita than anywhere else on Earth.
A Lithuanian clothing-swap site born from one woman's moving crisis became Europe's largest secondhand marketplace, moving billions in goods and reshaping how millions shop.
Across five studies of secondhand-market haggling, sellers were often more candid than buyers expected. Three minutes of small talk before the haggling narrowed the gap, and so did asking buyers to think about the seller's conscience first.
The difference between performing politeness for authority and treating service workers as fully human often comes down to lessons learned before you could remember them.
What happens when your plans collapse, your phone dies, and you're stranded at a gas station thousands of miles from home—and it's the best thing that could've happened.
Chronic offense-taking isn't performative outrage—it's a trauma response masquerading as oversensitivity.
The program that New York bet could untangle Manhattan traffic is delivering fewer vehicles, modestly faster buses, and revenue for transit projects; first-year studies did not find a clear air-quality effect.
By turning thousands of solar flares into calibration targets, scientists discovered their X-ray telescope has been systematically underestimating the sun's most violent eruptions.
The editorial map
Technology, AI, capital and institutions, examined through who builds systems, who controls them and who benefits.
Forests are dying faster than we can see them—but a pollution-tracking satellite is catching the collapse two years early.
How software, platforms and workplace systems change attention, performance, careers and everyday digital life.
When work stops, the person you've spent decades becoming stops too, leaving behind someone the world still recognizes but you no longer know how to be.
Relationships, identity and social behaviour, including how institutions and technologies reshape the way people live together.
What looks like overthinking may actually be neurological precision—these people aren't broken, they're just tuned to a frequency others can't access.
The hidden machinery of money and power — the secret owners, staggering fortunes, and frauds behind the companies and institutions you think you know. Every film is built on court records, regulator filings, and original investigative reporting.
Editorial columns
Technology
Gravis says its retrofit kits deliver "up to a 30% boost" against peak manual operation. It also told Inc. the machines have delivered "about 30 percent on multiple projects" against human-operated equipment. The specialist Inc. asked wants to know what was measured.
Politics
Two economists contracted by the ERC's own executive agency compared how a single proposal was scored by reviewers who matched the applicant and reviewers who did not. Sharing both citizenship and country of work moved the first-stage project score by 0.164 of a point on a five-point scale. The link to actual funding decisions is weaker, and correlational.
Work & Digital Life
Across five studies of secondhand-market haggling, sellers were often more candid than buyers expected. Three minutes of small talk before the haggling narrowed the gap, and so did asking buyers to think about the seller's conscience first.
Free field brief
How money, ownership, and power actually move behind the companies you think you know. Built for people who watch our documentaries. Sundays you also get The Undercurrent.
