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Saudi Arabia contains some of the world’s largest sand deserts yet imports sand from Australia — much of the windblown sand beneath its feet is too fine, smooth and rounded for conventional concrete, making it the wrong kind of sand for the cities rising above it (opens the original)
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The Rub’ al Khali, Saudi Arabia’s Empty Quarter, holds enough sand to bury France, and hardly a grain of it can hold up a building. United Nations trade data compiled by TrendEconomy show Saudi Arabia spent roughly US$140,000 on natural sand from Australia in 2023, a small slice of the $6.45 million it spent on that category overall, most of it going to China. Set against a national trade account, that Australian entry is a rounding error, about the price of a decent ute. Its existence is the in
The word anxiety traces back to a Latin verb meaning “to choke” or “to squeeze” — thousands of years before modern psychology, the language of fear was already tied to the physical sensation of the body tightening, the chest constricting and the throat seeming to close under stress (opens the original)
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Before the thought arrives, the throat does. That is the order it happens in for me. A narrowing somewhere under the jaw. A chest that has decided to keep half a breath in reserve. Then, late to its own scene, the story about what is going wrong. For years I assumed I had that backwards, and that the body was simply following instructions from the mind. Then I looked the word up. Anxiety comes from the Latin anxius, uneasy in mind, which is rooted in the verb angere: to choke, to squeeze, to thr
Psychology says people who always need the last word in an argument aren't stubborn or childish, they're often people who grew up in homes where silence meant losing and speaking last was the only way to feel safe (opens the original)
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My old business partner had a tell. Every argument we had would finish, properly finish, handshake and all. Then twenty minutes later my phone would buzz. One more paragraph. There was always one more paragraph. For years I read that as ego. I’ve come round to thinking it was closer to panic. There’s a claim doing the rounds that people who need the last word aren’t stubborn or childish. They were raised in houses where silence meant losing. No single study proves that in so many words. But pull
Psychology says people who don't believe they genuinely deserve happiness aren't pessimists or broken — they're the ones who learned, very early, that their needs were often the least important thing in the room (opens the original)
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A friend of mine has a trick at restaurants. Ask what she wants and she says whatever’s easiest. Ask again and she orders the second cheapest thing on the menu. She isn’t broke. Good job, decent flat, standing order to a dog shelter. She just cannot bring herself to want something out loud. For years I read that as modesty. It isn’t. Modesty sits on top of knowing what you want. This is a different animal, and once you’ve clocked it you see it everywhere. You know the type. They’ll organise your
Dopamine is less about pleasure than anticipation — which is why finishing a Netflix series can feel strangely flat, and why the next episode always feels more exciting before it starts than after it ends (opens the original)
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At 1am, with the little countdown ticking from five to one, the brain is having the best time it will have all night. Then the next episode starts and the fizz goes flat. Nobody sends a warning about the last one either, the strange hollow afternoon after a great series ends, when the show was superb and finishing it feels like almost nothing. There is a decent neurological explanation for that gap, and it begins with a thirsty monkey in a Swiss laboratory. In the early 1990s, Wolfram Schultz wa
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