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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.
It's Beautiful Here
She's out there, somewhere. I tell myself I had no choice, but the remorse is too hard to bear. Perhaps it wouldn't have been as catastrophic as I thought. Maybe there was another way to avoid being found out. Though my mind reels and my heart aches, I know there was no alternative.
By Dana Crandell3 months ago in Humans
The Truth Reflected Through Another Lens
For more than a century, photographs have stood as the gold standard for what is real, serving as the world’s collective proof of authenticity. A camera was the vessel through which truth was captured, a silent witness to time. Yet the rise of artificial intelligence has disrupted that assumption, not by erasing reality, but by reframing it. When we see an AI-generated image, our instinct is often to dismiss it as fake. We assume that because a camera was not involved, the image cannot be trusted. But that confuses process with meaning. The truth of an image does not depend on the tool that created it. It depends on who or what it represents.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 months ago in Humans
The Day My Brain Stopped Cooperating: A Mental Health Wake-Up Call. Content Warning.
It felt like a door slammed shut, one I didn't even know I'd left open. My fingers froze. Their rhythmic movement on the keyboard stopped, autopilot malfunctioning, forcing me back into control.
By Arianna Cook3 months ago in Humans
Tobacco is projected to kill 1 billion people in the next century.. AI-Generated.
The Staggering Projection: Why Tobacco is Poised to Kill One Billion People This Century Imagine a single habit wiping out one billion lives over the next hundred years. That's the grim forecast for tobacco use. Each year, smoking claims about eight million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. If nothing changes, those numbers stack up fast into a century-long nightmare.
By Story silver book 3 months ago in Humans
When the Muse Becomes a Cage: How Creatives Fall Into Addiction
At first, it feels like devotion — a writer chasing midnight inspiration, a painter sipping “just one more cup” to keep the vision alive. But behind that devotion, a quieter story unfolds: addiction disguised as art.
By Leigh Cala-or3 months ago in Humans
Incentivized Abandonment
Marriage was once a covenant that joined two lives in responsibility and perseverance. It required sacrifice from both, patience from both, and accountability from both. Today, marriage has been redefined by culture and rewritten by law. The covenant has been reduced to a contract, and the contract now rewards abandonment more than endurance. People no longer ask what it takes to stay. They ask what they can gain by leaving.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 months ago in Humans
Taught to Expect, Not to Honor
Modern society has trained women to expect everything and to honor nothing. They are raised to know what they want but not to know what they owe. They are told to list their standards but never to build the strength required to meet someone else’s. The result is a generation fluent in demands but illiterate in duty. Love cannot survive when one side learns only to expect while the other learns only to give.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 months ago in Humans
The One-Way Street of Modern Love
Modern relationships were supposed to be built on equality, but what we call equality has become one-sided. Men are taught to give, to serve, to protect, and to love unconditionally. Women are taught to expect those things and to measure a man’s worth by how perfectly he provides them. Men are conditioned to earn love. Women are conditioned to receive it. The result is not partnership but imbalance—a one-way street where the traffic of sacrifice flows in only one direction.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 months ago in Humans
Edit Less, Stress Less: 10 Minutes to Creative Clarity
There’s something about deadlines that makes even confident writers freeze. The heartbeat quickens, the cursor blinks louder, and suddenly every word feels wrong. You tell yourself you’ll just fix “a few things,” but two hours later, you’re still stuck in the same paragraph. Sound familiar?
By Leigh Cala-or3 months ago in Humans
