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A study has collected forty million responses for a question that may have no right answer: should a self-driving car sacrifice the few to save the many?

Thought of the day from Ray Bradbury: “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture — just get people to stop reading them”

Research published in Psychological Science suggests we consistently underestimate how much strangers enjoy talking to us — and the gap is larger than most people expect

Behavioral science suggests people are held back from reaching out by a fear of intruding — but recipients, in study after study, report feeling something much closer to gratitude

A Pew survey of 6,000 Americans found that most people still call their mother first when life gets hard

Psychology says the generation that grew up in the 1970s possesses a rare form of mental endurance because they were the last generation allowed to fail, get hurt, and figure it out without an adult intervening

News in the Blogosphere

The blog of weird Etsy products people couldn’t believe were real

I have interviewed 70 people in their 60s who have very few close friends, and loneliness, when it came up, often sounded less like missing people and more like missing the person you used to be around them

Texts From Last Night: the blog of messages people regretted sending

The wellness blogger who built a brand on a fake illness and exposed how easily hope can be sold

Blogging Tips & Guides

Most people overestimate how fast blogging pays and underestimate how long the money can keep coming once a good post finds its audience

Everyone is telling you to start a Substack. Blog Herald has been covering this industry since 2003 — here’s what we actually think

A Substack writer with 20,000 subscribers laid out her seven-step growth framework. Here’s what it reveals about how the platform actually works in 2026

Writers who go quiet for months aren’t blocked — they’re waiting for the distance that turns experience into something they can actually use

The Ideas Room

Researchers asked older adults with and without cognitive impairment to copy a sentence from a card, then write one from dictation — only the second task revealed a clear difference between the groups

I have interviewed 50 adult children of difficult parents and the quietest thing that tends to come up isn’t anger or grief: it’s the particular tiredness of having spent years hoping someone would become a person they may have never quite been

There is a version of success nobody is selling you — enough money to pay the bills, work you actually care about, and shutting the laptop at 5pm to have dinner with people you love — and it is harder to want than it sounds

I’ve watched enough true crime to be hard to impress, and these are the 8 Netflix documentaries I wish I could watch again for the first time