A meta-analysis of 308,849 participants linked social relationships with survival. Its comparison with smoking up to 15 cigarettes daily concerned social connection broadly, not chronic loneliness alone.
There is a particular feeling that arrives before the holiday has properly started.
Carl Jung split a human life down the middle and gave each half a different job.
The daily step goal on hundreds of millions of wrists and phones did not come out of a laboratory.
Where the internet physically lives is being redrawn, and what's pulling it isn't engineers — it's electricity.
We tend to treat being good at AI as a technical skill, something to do with clever prompts, the right settings and a stock of secret phrases.
When someone reaches retirement age without close friends, the easy assumption is that they must have pushed people away.
Roughly one in eight American adults is now taking a GLP-1 drug like Ozempic, Wegovy or Zepbound. The class traces back to a hormone isolated from Gila monster venom by a Bronx doctor who paid a dollar to file the patent himself after his employer passed on it.
Ozempic lists for roughly $969 in the United States and around €59 in Germany — the same pen, the same molecule, made in the same Danish factory. The reason winds back to a Nobel laureate's 1922 trip to Toronto.
If you own a dog, there is a reasonable chance its retractable lead was made by a company called Flexi, based in a town in northern Germany, which by its own account and most industry estimates holds around 70 percent of the world market for exactly that product and does nothing else.
Uber spent its entire 2026 budget for AI coding tools in four months.
Surveys of retired men in the UK and US consistently find the same uncomfortable pattern: a significant share report a loss of purpose, identity, or self-worth within the first two years of leaving structured work.
