The World Is in a Funk. It’s Not Permanent, and It’s Not Random.
Only 41% of people worldwide think their country is on the right track. Morris Misel on why the pessimism isn’t universal, and what history says comes next.
What’s Actually Happening When AI Arrives at Your Organisation
The first-order effect is always visible. You announce the adoption. You deploy the tool. The headlines talk about the efficiency gain. The quarterly numbers improve. But the ripple effects are what nobody talks about. I was on Curtin FM with Jenny Seaton last week talking about this. What happens in organisations when AI arrives isn’t […]
Men Built Their Social Life at Work. Nobody Told Them What Would Happen When It Ended.
The percentage of men with no close friends has gone from 3% to 15% since 1990. For the first time in the data, older men are lonelier than older women. Morris Misel unpacks the friendship recession, what drives it, and what Australia accidentally got right.
The Revolution Was Invisible. And We’re Doing It Again.
In 1976, America’s best scientific minds predicted 2026 and missed the entire revolution. Morris Misel on the visibility trap — and what we’re probably missing right now for 2076.
We’ve Been Looking in the Wrong Place for a Very Long Time
A pigeon navigates with its liver. Parrots call you by name when you’re not in the room. And mammals didn’t lose the ability to regenerate — the switch was turned off. What three science stories quietly rewrite about what we are.
What the Naked Mole Rat Knows (And Why the Medicine Is Already Moving)
Two signals from this week’s science — Neanderthal language DNA and a longevity gene transferred from naked mole rats to mice — point toward something larger: the medicine is moving, and we are barely noticing.
