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The Science Behind Relationships; Humans Media explores the basis of our attraction, contempt, why we do what we do and to whom we do it.
Will AI Replace Me? Why “Augmentation” Is the Word We Should All Use
“Will AI replace me?” It’s the quiet question behind office small talk, late-night scrolling, and career-planning anxiety. Whether you’re a designer experimenting with generative tools, a teacher adapting lesson plans, a developer integrating APIs, or a writer watching algorithms produce paragraphs in seconds, the fear feels personal.
By Mind Meets Machine5 days ago in Humans
Roots and Fruit
Roots and Fruit Photo by Lukáš Kulla on Unsplash Most people evaluate life by what shows. Results, behavior, success, failure, growth, collapse. Fruit is easier to measure than roots, so it becomes the focus almost by default. When something goes wrong, attention rushes to what is visible and immediate. When something goes right, credit is assigned to the most recent action. But this way of seeing consistently misreads causality. Fruit is never the beginning of the story. It is the result of something that has been growing quietly, often unnoticed, for a long time.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 days ago in Humans
A Baby's First Smile
That feeling you get when your newborn baby, beams that gummy smile at you is pretty special. It is a feeling a parent gets that is so fleeting, that you forget it a minute right after and don’t ever think about it or truly remember it again. There will be millions of smiles in life. But the first smile is like the first spring rain and vice versa. Spring in general, gives you that feeling of the first time, for something. It’s renewal, a refreshment of the spirit, after the doldrums of winter.
By Alexandra Grant8 days ago in Humans
The Double-Edged Sword: When Maternity Protections Become a Workplace Barrier
In the evolving landscape of global labor rights, maternity leave is often hailed as a fundamental victory for gender equality. However, a recent and controversial case out of Qingdao, China, has sparked a heated debate: Can the aggressive pursuit of these benefits actually end up "killing" the very opportunities they were meant to protect?
By Elena Vance 8 days ago in Humans
Solar Eclipse 2026: A Sky That Stops the World
There are moments when the sky feels close enough to touch. The light shifts. Shadows stretch in strange directions. Birds grow quiet. People look up together. A solar eclipse has a way of slowing everything down. It reminds us that we live on a moving planet, circling a star, part of something far larger than our daily worries.
By Muqadas khan9 days ago in Humans
"Come Back to reality". Content Warning.
Once upon a time humans lived and died happy. Despite the challenges of requiring hunting and gathering to eat and survive their workload was quite light and the majority of their time was spent frivolously socialising, playing, and exploring the vastness of Gods green and spectacular earth full of rivers, streams, beaches, mountains, tundra, forests and cities? no, no cities, no mental health struggles, every type of individual had a purpose and place within the tribe... At some point agriculture was invented and things begun to escalate but people once gave freely as the earth gave freely and provided them with food and water that was clean and not too difficult to attain. Sharing was the norm as every member of the tribe was valued.. Elders shared wisdom, guided, and taught. Young men hunted, young women gathered happily. Everyone could do all jobs, but certain people were more specialised... The modern-day schizophrenic would have thrived as a spiritual guide, the psychopath thrived as a hunter and warrior. Depression as a permanent disorder hadn't come about yet. Certain plants were loosely agriculturally utilised and there was a respect for nature and the land that gave freely in a symbiotic manner. The spiritual teachers kept the psychopaths from possessing the land or each other, the psychopaths kept the tribe strong athletic and safe from predators, and the tribe stabilised and looked after the spiritual teachers and learnt from them and adopted their visions and truths as their own.. Someone had an idea that food could be grown, controlled, harnessed, and ensured during some times of scarcity due to environmental factors.. Slowly but surely the psychopaths and alike found themselves more adept at the ability to organise and control the farming process, distribution, and resources and fed off the spiritual leaders for solutions to the problems this had caused. People became much more dependent on the psychopaths who had steadily depleted the natural abundance of the earth and controlled the food and used it to labour the tribes people... They found that by keeping people dependent enough to work for them, for just enough to survive from food and spare time, they could maintain an exponential growth that made sure that the increased amount of workers required to feed the children, that would become more workers, that would produce more children and so on, they would never go hungry and they could have luxuries such as protection from predators and abundances of mating opportunities.. This continued for a considerable amount of time before the psychopath's unquenchable thirst to tame the land, the people, the minerals, then the rivers, the animals, the spiritual leaders they eventually in their impulsive hubris decided to make even then earth itself work for them. Once the what they once thought was endless land became crowded and populated and the control and harnessing of all the previously mentioned became more difficult and resources were spread thin, the metals and ores and coal and humans became factories and factory workers... they had also invented this thing called money some time back which was initially used as a placeholder during scarcity for trading to signify using a "note" that someone owed you something particularly with seasonal foods etc.
By Connor Mudie9 days ago in Humans
Smooth Error
The Pulse Mara learned to read the city the way her grandmother read weather: by the way light pooled on the sidewalks, by the cadence of footsteps, by the hush that fell when the trams slowed. Then the Pulse arrived — a single, humming system that promised to make everything efficient. It listened to traffic, to power grids, to hospital wait times, to the number of empty chairs in cafés. It promised fewer shortages, faster commutes, cleaner air. It promised that the city would finally behave like a well-tuned instrument.
By Kristen Barenthaler9 days ago in Humans
Meteorologist
February, the month of love, black history, and then there is the rat. Adults, looking to a rodent for predictions in weather and the future of winter and spring. When on earth did that become a celebrated thing? It’s ridiculous, and yet some take it seriously.
By Alexandra Grant10 days ago in Humans
The Eight Ways We Can Love One Another
Happy Valentine’s Day, friends, What is love? Well, love isn’t the greedy part of the commercialism of Valentine’s Day, which can leave some folks feeling socially pressured and even feeling some isolation and sadness around this celebration.
By Chantal Christie Weiss11 days ago in Humans
