artificial intelligence
AI progress is accelerating, but the true competitive advantage is shifting from software to infrastructure. As frontier models demand massive capital expenditure, investment in compute, data centres, and hardware is becoming the new moat shaping the intelligence economy.
art
Psychological research shows that viewing visual art increases meaning in life, a core driver of long-term wellbeing. Art is not a luxury, but a measurable psychological resource that shapes how people interpret experience and their place in the world.
media
As mass layoffs gut The Washington Post, the meaning of its famous slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is being tested in real time.
Truffle Culture unpacks the beauty premium at work—showing how makeup, grooming, and presentation boost women’s earnings. Research reveals
Nostalgia Core 2025: How 90s & Y2K Aesthetics Are Shaping Gen Z Culture
Hyperpop is noisy, ironic, and impossibly online. Here’s the origin story of music’s most chaotic genre and why it matters now.
The Context
From Serving Cunt to Feeling Cunty: The Renaissance of a Much-Hated Word.
Join a community decoding the forces shaping culture, power, and the future.
The Lyst Index reveals a quiet fashion revolution, where identity, utility, and coherence are replacing hype, trends, and algorithm-driven style.
An analysis of how platform consolidation, mergers and distribution control are reshaping cinema and the future of film.
ARK Invest’s Big Ideas 2026 maps the technologies accelerating a new economic era. From AI and robotics to energy, biology and Bitcoin, this editorial breaks down what’s coming next and why it matters now.
Why the myth of the “anti-ageing shortcut” reflects a deeper cultural tension over ageing, wellbeing, and how science gets repackaged into belief.
The Nipah virus outbreak is spreading fast across media. What this reveals about post-pandemic fear, risk perception, and cultural power shifts.
Why socially conscious storytelling continues to shape culture despite political pressure — and what that signals about power, audiences, and the future of meaning.
As AI makes intelligence abundant, human skills like empathy, judgement, and awareness are becoming the true advantage.
Amid crisis headlines, 2025 quietly delivered real progress. From clean energy to medicine and science, here’s the good news that slipped past the algorithm.
Social skills are driving wage growth and job security in the modern economy. We explore new economic research on why human connection now outperforms technical skill.
An accessible, fact-checked explainer of the 2026 Venezuela crisis: the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro, what international law says, why oil matters, and what happens next
They’re launching companies before finishing university, rewriting climate policy between classes, and turning social movements into global blueprints for change.
New research reveals how constant scrolling, short-form videos, and AI tools may accelerate cognitive aging in Gen Z. Inside the neuroscience behind “brain rot” and the movement to reclaim attention.
