What Is Our Food Really Made Of?
Most of us don’t eat food the way our grandparents did. We eat products. They are engineered to travel long distances, sit on shelves for months, survive heat and cold, and still trigger pleasure when opened.
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The Many Faces of Stuff in America: Value, Excess, Meaning, and Impact
what role do all of these things actually play in our lives? When does physical stuff support our security, productivity, and self-expression? When does it become excess that weighs on our wallets, our minds, and the environment? How can we make smarter decisions about what we bring into our homes, what we keep, and what we let go?
Art and Emotional Processing: The Making of Meaning Through Art
Across human history, moments of profound loss, uncertainty, and upheaval have repeatedly given rise to art.
Autonomous Vehicles and the Cost of Convenience: Innovation at a Crossroads
Autonomous vehicles were once framed as an inevitability — a clean technological arc that would move transportation forward in the same way seatbelts, airbags, and GPS once did. For years, the public conversation leaned heavily toward promises: fewer crashes, cheaper transportation, reduced congestion, and newfound freedom for people unable or unwilling to drive. The assumption…
Moral Fatigue in the Age of Advanced Information: Understanding, Surviving, and Responding
Since 2020, the world has experienced an unprecedented cascade of historic events—pandemic, political upheavals, wars, climate disasters, social movements, economic shifts, and rapid technological transformation. These collective experiences have not only shaped global history, they have also exerted extraordinary psychological and emotional pressure on individuals around the world. As news cycles compress and digital platforms flood us with information, many people find themselves exhausted not just physically, but morally and emotionally. This state—commonly described as moral fatigue or compassion fatigue—is increasingly recognized as a widespread response to continuous exposure to global crises.
The State of the Job Market in 2025: A Look Back
In 2025, millions of workers experienced instability not because companies were failing, but because corporations were reorganizing around scale, automation, shareholder demands, and mergers. Layoffs were not isolated accidents or cyclical miscalculations. They were part of a larger economic realignment driven by consolidation, monopoly power, and financial engineering.
The World’s Top Polluters: Power, Profit, And The Corporations Driving The Climate Crisis
Here we explore who the world’s top polluters really are, how power and profit shape their decisions, who sits at the top of these organizations, and what the psychological and emotional landscape of that leadership may look like under the weight of planetary-scale consequences.
AI in Animation: Faster Pipelines, Fewer Jobs, and a Creative Industry Under Pressure
This article examines how AI is actually being used in animation today, where it is likely heading, and why the growing reliance on AI in animation may pose serious long-term risks to animators, studios, and the creative integrity of the medium itself.
Why the Video Game Industry Feels Like It’s in Decline
For years, the video game industry was treated as one of the few “unstoppable” sectors of the global economy. Even when other industries slowed, gaming continued to grow. More players, more revenue, more studios, more investment. By the early 2020s, video games were bigger than film and music combined. So why does the industry now…
The Invisible Burden: Overwork, Mental Health, and the Systems That Normalize Exhaustion
In today’s hyper-connected world, busy has become a badge of honor. Long hours and overflowing inboxes are worn like medals, often at the expense of our well-being. But beneath the accolades and hustle lies a far deeper issue: the normalization of overwork—not just as an individual challenge, but as a cultural, legal, and media-driven phenomenon…