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Some friendships don't end in conflict — they simply thin until neither of you is quite sure when the last real conversation happened. Psychologists call this ambiguous loss, and it may be one of the most under-grieved experiences of adult life.
For roughly a billion years — from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago — Earth's oceans went chemically stagnant, oxygen stalled, and life did nothing much except reproduce as microbial slime. Geologists call it the Boring Billion, and it is the longest uneventful chapter in the planet's history.
The evidence on the other side is harder to set aside.
A 20-year study of more than 700 children found that how a five-year-old got on with others predicted adult employment and college graduation, holding up even after early reading level was taken into account.
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Charisma has a reputation problem.
The obvious reading of a first-time homebuyer reaching a median age of 40 is that young Americans are waiting longer by choice, renting into their late thirties, delaying the whole project of settling down.
The loneliness that arrives in midlife is often not a sign of failing at relationships. It tends to fall on the people who spent two decades being the reliable one, and left no room for themselves.
Every time you type a question into a chatbot, the reply feels weightless.
On April 29, 2020, a single bolt of lightning stretched 768 kilometres across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi — long enough to force the World Meteorological Organization to rewrite what a lightning strike can be.
The usual story about people who stay fit into their 70s is a story about exceptional character.
The friendships people carry into old age often look, from the outside, like proof of loyalty.
