Write about the future you want: “If complaining worked, we would have won the culture war already.”

The Who Cares Era: ‘…where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore.’

Digital resurrection: fascination and fear over the rise of the deathbot: This of course actually was a Black Mirror episode.

Borders of whiteness: Do refugees have a colour?: ‘Reports on the refugee crisis have also suggested discriminatory behaviour on the part of Europeans to refugees of black or brown skin colour.’

We’ve built a society on bullshit and emojis.: ‘Today’s reality is the result of actively practicing and engaging in pseudo humanity.’

Have humans passed peak brain power?: ‘Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning’.

We can’t move for therapists but do they help or harm mental health patients?: It’s very hard to argue that this industry doesn’t need some serious regulation.

Despite the horrors, the laundry must be done; Despite the laundry, the horrors must be faced: One way to cope when the world goes bad.

I Want Your Attention. I Need Your Attention. Here is How I Mastered My Own: Humans just hate boredom; our modern world being full of distractions doesn’t help.

New Year, same American violence: America is a ‘culturally violent place’, as well as having far too many guns of course.

Scientists Quantified The Speed of Human Thought, And It’s a Big Surprise: Apparently our brains process information at the minuscule rate of 10 bits per second - to be fair I regularly feel like a 1970s computer could best me.

This is My Most Expensive Habit: Anxiety.

Smartphones don’t suck. People do: We shouldn’t let our phones bore us so often.

leadership: ‘…the single most important trait of a good leader is the ability to listen to someone who has less power than you do about the ways in which you’ve fucked up’

The far right grows through “disaster fantasies”: Their prioritisation of imaginary disasters that require individual solutions over real disasters that need collective action.

‘Five to ten seconds appears to be optimal’: the science behind hugs: Why hugs are good.