Adolescence
Plus: A great new podcast series on the secret plot to invade Ukraine (#522)
Lonely but beautiful actions
Plus: the hidden power of introverts, and how AI is polluting the web (#221)
Yes, we can (improve lives with money)
Plus: A tour of Disney's secret test lab (#220)
You will not feel pain. We will be okay.
Elections, the authoritarian playbook, and an ode to the hardest working font in Manhattan (#519)
Hope is a performative emotion
Also: Grief, microplastics and a recipe against right-wing populism. (#518)
10 ways to think about these «peace negotiations»
Plus: Dishonest charts, regime change, and what it means to be a gardener. (#517)
Meditations in an Emergency
And why every organisation needs a keeper of the truth. (#516)
What are we seeing?
Plus: Building churches upside-down and humanity's last exam. (#515)
50 lives you haven't lived
Plus the cutest story I've seen on the web in a while. (#514)
How to break the spell of the status quo
Plus some good news from Europe and a new in-depth profile of stuff our modern world runs on (#513)
Hello, Monsters!
Also: Why knowing is hard, and making sense of galaxies by turning them into cereals. (#511)
For Zuck's Sake
Also inside: 100 nice things, not even counting the 52 Lego bricks. (#511)