Katie Jgln

This would certainly not convince all the greed apologists and ‘temporarily embarrassed millionaires’ that hoarding this kind of wealth isn’t normal, but I bet it would make some question it more.

Someone should run a study to find out how many people understand how much a billion (one thousand million) and a trillion (one million million) are, and then make the participants complete some exercises estimating how many lifetimes a person could comfortably live on each of these figures.

Erysichthon, mythical king of Thessaly, once ordered his men to cut down trees sacred to Ceres so he could expand his palace and host larger feasts. His hunger for more eventually led him to devour everything around him and himself.

America has its own Erysichthon now. And he's in the White House.

I fear the biggest ‘legacies’ of our era will be plastic waste and chicken bones and AI slop and more plastic waste.

I still sometimes find it hard to believe that we live in a world run by assholes and idiots and clowns because they managed to convince so many people that the fact that our world seems to be run by assholes and idiots and clowns is not their fault, but those with the least power and money.

How Caring Made Us Human It’s one of our oldest and most crucial survival strategies

It wasn’t brute strength or ruthless competition that helped our ancestors survive, even in the most unforgiving conditions. It was caring for one another and sticking together.

Why Fascism Can’t Survive Without the Women It Hates Systems of oppression often turn their targets into their lifeline

‘Fascism hates women just as much as it needs them. And it needs most of them on their knees, scrubbing both factory floors and their own kitchens, and working day and night to birth and feed and raise the next generation so that those in power can spend very little while accumulating a lot .’

So far there are already more men named John than women among this year’s Nobel Prize winners. Considering there was only one female winner last year, I’d say the odds of breaking that pattern are, well, not great.

What the Gender Gap Among Young People Is Actually About It goes deeper than just politics

The growing gender gap among young people is political, yes, but it’s also cultural, personal, and rooted in struggles over power. Young women want to have power over their own lives, while some young men still equate power with dominance over others.

Jane Goodall was a pioneer, a legend, and a remarkable human being. What a loss. But I'm sure her legacy will endure for generations — including this gem of a quote: 'In many ways the performances of Donald Trump remind me of male chimpanzees and their dominance rituals.'

Extreme Wealth Inequality Is a Choice, Not Our Destiny But we might be running out of time to change it

'Far too many of us today are so enamoured by the rhetoric about "freedom", we don’t realise that unlimited freedom for some actually means very little freedom for the rest of us.'

Extreme Wealth Inequality Is a Choice, Not Our Destiny But we might be running out of time to change it

A massive new study of nearly 50,000 homes from 1,000 archaeological sites spanning 10,000 years reveals that wealth inequality was neither universal nor an inevitable consequence of population growth or progress.

I can’t help but feel that if we didn’t have to keep wasting energy arguing over things that should be common sense by now, we’d probably already be commuting on jetpacks powered by food waste or something.

Drowning people in constant, enraging noise is the whole point. You never get to step back and reflect and see the bigger picture because you're pulled too far under it all.

The only difference is that today this rubbish also lines the pockets of massive corporations that want us to be more concerned with our wrinkles and sagging skin than question the inequalities that actually shape how we age.

This idea that if you're ‘unproblematic' then you'll 'age well,' so often thrown at public figures (especially female, because, of course), is just a reheated version of the old belief that beauty equals virtue. And just as it was rubbish then, it's rubbish now.

Perhaps it's time to replace the myth of 'man the protector' with a more accurate 'eldest daughter the protector.'

A study of pre-industrial Swiss parish registers (Spa et al., 2025) finds that having older brothers reduced girls' chances of survival, while having older sisters had a positive effect on both girls and boys.

The Problem With ‘Marriage Makes You Happier’ Studies Or rather, the many problems — and the myths they keep alive

And that's all *despite* the fact that many of these studies are often designed to make marriage look good.

A recent survey once again claimed that marriage makes people — this time, women — much happier than their unmarried counterparts. But research tells a far less flattering story. Marriage’s impact on happiness is inconsistent, short-lived, and barely distinguishable from cohabitation.

But whether an activity is labelled as science, technology, or art often has less to do with its complexity or value, and more to do with which gender was mostly engaged in it, historically speaking—and, by extension, who was allowed to practice it in ways deemed 'professional' and 'serious' enough.

Knitting is a technology, a science, and an art all at once. The same can be said for weaving, quilting, pottery, cooking, and countless other practices.

Considering that women are more likely to reinvest money in their families and communities and are more inclined to support various social causes, this could lead to quite a shake-up of our world.

How Women’s Growing Wealth Could Change the World And how it might not

It’s predicted that women will soon control 38% of financial wealth in the US, 47% in Europe, and 39% globally, growing at about 8–10% per year. This surge is driven by ’the great wealth transfer’—a massive shift of assets, mostly from men to their surviving female spouses.

Everything is just a tap, a swipe, or a short drive away. Everything can be delivered to us without us even having to lift a finger.

And so we remain blissfully ignorant, or willfully blind, to the fact that when one part of that system breaks, everything else follows.

One of the key reasons people in high-income countries often forget how deeply interconnected we all are—with each other, the planet, every living thing—is because modern convenience keeps us largely insulated from reality.

Czy kobiety powinny być chirurgami?

Source: tvn24.pl/zdrowie/czy-...

It’s almost hard to believe this is happening in 2025, but at the upcoming surgeons’ conference in Poland, one of the scheduled ‘debates’ is literally whether women should be surgeons.

Yet another reminder that the idea that women no longer face bias & barriers in the workplace is pure nonsense.

We Need More People To Do Nothing On the rising toll of extreme heat and the system that keeps us working through it

I dug deeper into this idea and the importance of doing and consuming less in my recent post as well:
thenoosphere.substack.com/p/we-need-mo...

We don’t have to keep chasing endless growth — and burning through our planet in the process — when we already have more than enough to give everyone a decent life.