These past few weeks have been among the most challenging I’ve experienced with our kids, like, ever. After one too many moments when I felt like the worst version imaginable of myself as a father, I stumbled upon this new episode from Trevor Noah’s podcast. What a breath of fresh air! A wonderful conversation with clinical psychologist and parenting expert Dr. Becky. Full of new insights, apt reminders, and anecdotes that are so relatable you can’t help but laugh. So, if you have kids in your life, this two-hour conversation is a gift you deserve. It delivers a complete recharge of your ability to be empathetic towards tantrum-throwing kids, and to be kind with yourself.

A team of data journalists conducted an experiment to test how TikTok pulls young men into the – quite literally – dark corners of the manosphere. They simulated five users’ journey from an unsuspecting feed to one dominated by videos promoting hate and self-harm, all triggered by a slight interest in fitness videos. The original is in German, but Google Translate is your friend.

A smart essay on why our omnipresent AI companions must be designed for conscious forgetting. Because, «when memory becomes fixed, identity becomes recursive, locked to a cached version of yourself. […] Infinite memory doesn’t just remember our past; it nudges us to repeat it.»

A helpful guide for making sure that donating money doesn’t just feel good, but has the best and biggest possible impact.

Most hopeful climate stories these days are about solar. This one is about «how Africa is building the future by skipping the past.» While development experts spent 50 years debating how to extend 20th-century infrastructure to rural Africa, something more interesting happened: Africa built the 21st-century version instead. Modular. Distributed. Digital. Powered by the sun, subsidised by the carbon it avoids.

Twenty years ago, Forbes let users send messages to their future selves. Hundreds of thousands did. This is the story of how, despite everything that could have gone wrong, those messages arrived in 2025. In the end, it wasn’t technology that made the time work. It was «because of people who cared about each other and about something they had worked together to build.»

We have long learned to accept that no one thing will end Donald Trump’s political career. No matter how big the scandal, no matter how blatant the lies, the corruption, the disrespect for the rule of law, he remained untouchable. But maybe, just maybe, Andrea Pitzer argues, we’re starting to see the beginnings of a slow shift against Trump, «small rifts that have the opportunity to turn into larger ones.»

If you liked season one, you’re going to love this one. If you’re new to the Shell Game podcast, you’re in for a treat. In season 1, Evan Ratliff had created a voice clone of himself and let it loose for all sorts of challenges. Now, in the second season, Ratliff is trying to lead a startup to success as the only human employee, alongside a growing cast of AI-powered co-workers. Again, an excellent blend of hilarious and insightful.

«The kids need food more than they need to be read to.» Sometimes, small stories like this one hit even harder than explicit descriptions of the horrors and the suffering the people in Gaza had and have to endure. On burning books – «the souls of the people who’d written them.» – to stay alive.

«It’s time to stop treating this like a tech moonshot and start treating it like a public health intervention.» The case for dramatically speeding up the adoption of self-driving cars – because they cause so many fewer injuries and deaths than the average human driver.