What would you do if your phone buzzed and, for a split second, you heard a voice you thought you’d never hear again? Not a recording. A new message. In their tone, their cadence, their familiar pause before your name. For a growing number of people, that moment is real. Artificial intelligence now makes it…
If you’ve ever opened an app “for five minutes” and looked up an hour later, you’re not alone—and it’s not an accident. Infinite scroll, autoplay, and notifications are engineered to keep you engaged by exploiting how your brain works. Your attention is the product being bought and sold. Here’s the good news: once you understand…
If you’ve ever wondered why anxiety shows up as a tight chest or why a loud noise can send your whole body into fight‑or‑flight, you’re not alone. Trauma doesn’t live only in our memories—it lives in our nervous system, our muscles, our sleep patterns, and even our relationships. That’s the central insight of The Body…
If you’ve felt a quiet alarm bell ring every time your child disappears behind a screen, you’re not imagining it. Over the last decade, rates of teen anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicide have surged—especially among girls—and it all seemed to accelerate right around the early 2010s. That’s the starting point for social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s…
Ever feel like your brain is buzzing but your thoughts are syrup-slow? You open your phone to “check one thing,” then—poof—40 minutes disappear into a blur of short videos, hot takes, and tabs you can’t remember opening. If you’re nodding, you’re not broken—you’re living in an attention economy engineered to exploit your most human instincts….
