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7What Was the Most Modern Ancient Civilisation?
What Was the Most Modern Ancient Civilisation? If you've ever stood in a museum, looked at a 4,000-year-old object that could plausibly have come from an IKEA catalogue,…
Why Do We Procrastinate (Even When We Know Better)?
If you've ever spent an afternoon reorganising a sock drawer to avoid writing an email that would take eleven minutes, here's a small consolation: you weren't being lazy,…
What Are the Best Podcasts Right Now?
If you've ever asked a friend for a podcast recommendation and received, in response, a fifteen-minute monologue ending with "but honestly it depends what you're into," here's a…
What Are the Best Books of 2026 So Far?
If you've ever stood in a bookshop in June, paralysed in front of a table labelled "Best of the Year So Far," here's a small consolation: the paralysis…
Who Are the World’s Most Popular and Unpopular Leaders Right Now?
If you only follow the news in your own country, you'd be forgiven for assuming every leader on Earth is wildly unpopular and clinging to office by their…
What Are the Easiest and Hardest Languages to Learn?
If you've ever sworn you're "just bad at languages" after bouncing off French in school, here's a small consolation: the difficulty was never entirely in your head, and…
Are Plants Secretly Paying Attention?
You walk past a houseplant a hundred times a week and think nothing of it. It doesn't move, it doesn't make a sound, it doesn't seem to do…
Features
3NTS Radio and the Case for Listening Without an Algorithm | Feature
NTS is an online radio station. Two live channels, broadcasting 24 hours a day, somewhere in the world. There is no curated stream made just for you, no…
All Five Senses, One Building: Porto’s Wondersense Museum | Feature
We spend most of our waking lives looking at screens. We scroll, we tap, we stare. Even when we visit museums, the instinct is often the same —…
Are.na and the Case for a Slower Internet | Feature
Are.na has no likes, no follower counts on display, no algorithm choosing what you see, and no infinite scroll. For the small community that uses it every day,…