science
The Good News You Probably Missed in 2025
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.
Brad Davidson
finance
It Pays To Be Social
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.
geopolitics
Venezuela, Explained
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
environment
10 Young Visionaries Rewiring the World
They’re launching companies before finishing university, rewriting climate policy between classes, and turning social movements into global blueprints for change.
digital
The Collapse of Attention: What ‘Brain Rot’ Really Means for Gen Z’s Future
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.
finance
When the Home-Ownership Dream Breaks, Everything Else Shifts
Housing prices are rising far faster than incomes, and a new economic study shows how collapsing home-ownership prospects are reshaping a generation. From reduced work effort to higher spending and riskier investments, young adults face shifting financial behaviours and widening inequality.
The new power buyers of the art world. How Gen-Z Women Are Rewriting the Rules of Cultural Power
For decades, the art world has mythologised a very specific type of collector: usually male, usually older, usually armed with generational wealth and a Rolodex of blue-chip galleries. But the data emerging from the 2025 Art Basel & UBS Survey of Global Collecting tells a radically different story — one that
artificial intelligence
The bots that ate history.
AI’s hunger for data is quietly erasing the internet’s cultural memory, draining archives, rewriting history, and redefining who owns knowledge.
culture
Say What You Want About Nepo Babies, The Art Still Hits.
They were born with access, but they still make art that moves us. From Lily Allen to Zoe Kravitz and Miley Cyrus, Truffle Culture explores the paradox of privilege and pain in pop culture’s most divisive creators.
culture
In Defence of Victoria’s Secret.
Victoria’s Secret was cancelled in the woke era — but is beauty really the enemy? Explore the psychology of desire, the return of glamour, and why sex still sells.
technology
Why OpenAI’s Sora 2 Proves the AI Race Is Moving Faster Than We Can Keep Up
OpenAI’s Sora 2 shows how fast the AI arms race is moving, redefining art, identity, and culture in real time.
music
The Charts Don’t Lie: Hip-Hop’s Retreat & Culture’s New Conservative Centre
Hip-hop’s dominance is fading reflecting a broader cultural shift toward nostalgia and conservatism.