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Psychology says men who describe their wife or partner as the person they feel closest to aren’t unusually dependent — among married men, it...

Ask a married man who he feels closest to and there is a decent chance he says his wife, then attaches a small apology to it. Something like “which is probably a bit sad.” He says it the way...

IVF startup GonGlobal raises $1.2 million for needle-free treatments

Biotech startup, GonGlobal, is hoping to change that after raising $1.2 million to develop a new form of IVF treatment. The raise was backed by Innovation Victoria – the newly merged Breakthrough Victoria and LaunchVic – via its University Innovation...

Kiwi comms startup Drumbeat bags NZ$2M to help founders tell their stories

The round for Drumbeat was led by Icehouse Ventures, with support from Brand Fund. Prominent Australian marketers Adam Ferrier from Thinkerbell and Mutinex’s Henry Innis are also backers.  The cash will help scale the platform’s proprietary “awareness-building system”, which includes media...

Learning in the age of information: how access counterfeits understanding, and how to tell knowledge from wisdom

We have quietly collapsed three things that used to be easier to tell apart: information, knowledge, and wisdom. The age of information has delivered an almost violent abundance of the first, more facts, papers, explainers and answers than any...

It doesn’t happen suddenly: how people in their 60s and 70s slowly find themselves alone, with no one to talk to

It doesn’t happen suddenly: how people in their 60s and 70s slowly find themselves alone, with no one to talk to There is rarely a single day when a person becomes lonely. It happens in smaller ways. You retire and no...

Research suggests the move that makes someone feel heard in a disagreement may not be telling them their heart is in the right place...

You have probably used the polite version. Someone disagrees with you about something that matters, and before you explain why they are wrong, you tell them you are sure they want what is best. It costs nothing, and it...

The psychology of why reading makes us smarter and happier, and why one half of that is firmer than the other

That reading makes us happier and smarter is repeated so often it has worn smooth, the sort of claim nobody bothers to examine because everyone already agrees with it. Underneath the slogan, though, there is real psychology, and it...

‘The Ground is Shifting’: Kobalt Leans on Teamwork as AI Disrupts Cybersecurity

Kobalt.io recently unveiled a slew of strategic partnerships. The Vancouver-based cybersecurity upstart has established partnerships with Forward Security, Johanson Group LLP, and Insight Assurance. The “practical” partnerships were forged during Kobalt’s Partner Summit in Vancouver. Kobalt aims to bring the capabilities of...

BC Tech Finalist Viridis Research Is Giving Textile Wastewater a Second Chance

This article is part of a series presented in partnership with BC Tech, profiling the finalists for the 2026 Technology Impact Awards‘ Company of the Year – Startup category. Viridis Research co-founder and CEO Macarena Cataldo-Hernandez’s commitment to clean water...

AI’s first visible employment shock may be hitting the bottom rung of the career ladder: by June 2026, employment among 22–25-year-olds in highly AI-exposed...

The first visible AI jobs shock may not look like a layoff announcement. It may look like a vacancy that was never posted. That is the unsettling possibility raised by a revised Stanford Digital Economy Lab analysis of US payroll...
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A new study suggests the person who left your message unanswered tends to feel worse about it than you imagine, and worse still when...

“What do you think of this?” That is the last message in one version of an experiment funded by the...
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