Using more than 35 years of US survey data, some researchers found Americans were happier in years of lower income inequality — and the...
Income Inequality and American Happiness: Insights from Decades of Data
In 2011, researchers Shigehiro Oishi and Selin Kesebir of the University of Virginia, alongside Ed...
Juggling several tasks at once feels efficient, but researchers have found that each switch quietly costs time and accuracy — via hidden mental stages...
The Hidden Cost of Task Switching: Why Busy Doesn’t Always Mean Productive
Here’s how many of my mornings go. I sit down to write, open...
In late 1971, Ray Tomlinson sat at two side-by-side PDP-10s in a Cambridge office and sent a message from one to the other across...
The Birth of Modern Email: Ray Tomlinson’s Groundbreaking Moment
In late 1971, Ray Tomlinson sat in a beige office at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN)...
People who reach their 60s without close friends aren’t socially deficient, they’re often the ones who spent forty years carrying everyone else’s emotional weight...
Understanding the Emotional Exhaustion Behind Friendlessness at Sixty
The standard narrative about a sixty-year-old without close friends often points to personal shortcomings — a prickly...
People who feel lonely inside long marriages aren’t ungrateful for their partner, they may just be missing the version of being seen that comfort...
The Quiet Loneliness Within Long Marriages
It is a Tuesday in late autumn, and a couple in their sixties are eating pasta at a kitchen...