Podcast: The Boy Who Named Himself After a Bone Tune in to discover the world of Looksmaxxing and how a boy from New York has come to define an age of insecurity for young men.
What Is Looksmaxxing? The Incel-Born Ideology That's Gone Mainstream - and What It's Doing to the Mental Health of Young Men From incel forums to mainstream TikTok, looksmaxxing has turned male insecurity into an ideology. This is what it is, who it captures, and what it tells us about the quiet crisis in young men's lives.
Parental Phubbing: The long-lasting impact of parents addicted to smartphones Parental phubbing - snubbing your child for your phone - is now a clinically confirmed attachment risk. What the research says, and why no one is talking about it.
Brain Rot and Gen Z: The TikTok Curriculum Fighting Back Gen Z invented brain rot. Now they're building TikTok curricula to fight it. The psychology of a generation trying to outscroll its own cognitive decline.
AI Companion Grief Is Real - And a Software Update Can Trigger It Thousands of people have formed genuine emotional bonds with AI companions. When developers push an update, the grief is clinically real - and no one has a framework for it yet.