The Evolution of Insight
Evolutionary mismatch is not a single problem. It shows up everywhere: in what we eat, how we move, the way we sleep, the light we stare into at night, and the spaces we spend our lives inside. Our bodies evolved for a world that no longer exists, and the gap between what we need and what we get is quietly shaping our health, our mood, our focus, and our sense of aliveness. These articles explore that gap — from food to fear to the rooms we call home — and what happens when we start to close it.

Why Stopping Is So Hard
When our neurology meets modern profiteering.... [Image: Grok]Ask someone why they can’t quit smoking, and they’ll usually land on one of two answers.Either they blame the addiction. Or they blame themselves.Want more articles like this...
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THE EVOLUTION OF FEAR
Last night, a woman told me she hadn’t slept properly in days. She wasn’t in danger. She wasn’t sick. Nobody she loved was under threat. She was sitting in her living room in North America, thousands of miles from the nearest confli...
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The Evolution of Narcissism
Everywhere you look now, there are narcissists.Scroll for five minutes and you’ll see it.Someone posts a photo of their success — narcissist. Someone sets a boundary — narcissist. Someone displays ambition — narcissist. Someon...
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The Evolution of Obesity
CICO: The Enron-Accounting of the Weight-loss Industry (Photo by @Grok.)Calories-in-calories-out (CICO) has long been held as a “fundamental truth of weight loss." That said, it is incredibly difficult; people fail at it pretty regularly for a ...
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The Evolution of Bad Habits
We tend to talk about habits today as if they’re some modern inconvenience.Something we need to hack, trick, optimize, or out-smart.That framing is wrong.Habits aren’t the problem. They’re one of the great survival technologies of t...
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Is the End Near for Big Food?
A landmark lawsuit has been filed against eleven of the world’s largest processed-food companies. The complaint alleges that these corporations intentionally engineered ultra-processed foods (UPFs) to be addictive, metabolically damaging, and d...
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The Evolution of Hunger
Hunger King Image: ChatGPT“Your hunger cues aren’t broken. They’re just optimized for a world that no longer exists.”We tend to talk about hunger like it’s a simple thing. As if it’s just the body’s way of sa...
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AI Can Save Us From Disease
AI can already detect pancreatic cancer years before symptoms appear — a life-saving breakthrough. But if all we do is use technology to prune away the diseased branches of our health, we’ll still be ignoring the roots.Just yesterday, I r...
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The Evolution of Captivity
Why do so many animals die younger in captivity—despite having guaranteed food, medical care, and protection from predators and the elements?It’s a question that has puzzled scientists and zookeepers for decades, and the answers reveal so...
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