From Ashes to Mint: The Strange Evolution of Toothpaste Through Empires and Experiments
Let’s be honest. For most people, the twice-a-day ritual of brushing our teeth is a senseless addiction. A flick of the wrist, a burst of […]
Let’s be honest. For most people, the twice-a-day ritual of brushing our teeth is a senseless addiction. A flick of the wrist, a burst of […]
You wake up to the sound of an alarm, not birdsong. Your hand reaches for a cellphone earlier than it even unearths your associate’s. The […]
Let’s be honest. We’ve all been there. You’re sitting across from your partner at the dinner table. The day turned long; the meals are good, […]
It starts quietly, nearly imperceptibly. A ping from your smartphone. A new email icon is flashing in the corner of your display screen. A mental […]
It’s a familiar feeling for so many of us. That low-grade, persistent hum of overwhelm. It’s not a crisis, not a five-alarm fire, but a […]
We’ve all felt it. That unexpected, dizzying plunge into infatuation, the slow, steady warm temperature of a many-years-long partnership, the jagged, painful rupture of a […]
I don’t forget the load of the coin in my small hand. It turned into a Saturday morning, and the air in the open-air marketplace […]
Take a moment and count something. The number of tabs open on your browser. The steps from your desk to the coffee machine. The days […]
There is a primal memory buried deep within us, a ghost of a feeling from a time before history. It is the memory of true, […]
It starts with a feeling. A tightness. A dullness. A layer of the day’s grime that feels less like a surface problem and more like […]
We walk through a forest and see trees. We gaze across a prairie and see grass. We look at a coral reef and see a […]
There’s a world that exists just beyond the edges of our daylight perception. As we retreat indoors, drawing, there’s a world that lies just beyond […]
We walk through forests, gaze across meadows, paddle through wetlands, and often we see… scenery. A backdrop to our human dramas. But below the rustling […]
Forget the marble halls and tailored suits for a moment. Step outside. Listen to the sunrise refrain not as birdsong, but as a complex community […]
We spend lifetimes building walls. Walls of ordinariness, of ambition, of cautiously built identities. We polish the veneer of control, convincing ourselves the world bends […]
The jungle doesn’t sleep. Ever. At dawn, a howler monkey’s roar shatters the mist—a primal alarm clock for creatures below. Somewhere, a leaf quivers, not […]