The Journal
New pieces appear when there is something worth saying. Each one is fully cited. Nothing is medical advice. We publish from the United Kingdom, in British English.
10 June 2026 · 5 min · Slowness
The chronic-low-grade-rush feeling is a known nervous-system pattern, not a personal failing. What the research on time perception, sympathetic activation, and slow living actually says about reversing it.
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9 June 2026 · 6 min · On AI
The honest case for how AI tools are eliminating cognitive frictions we didn't realise were doing important work, and a small practical guide for staying recognisably yourself in 2026.
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8 June 2026 · 6 min · Mornings
The first thirty minutes after you wake set the cognitive tone for the entire day. The research on phone-in-the-bedroom morning routines, and the single intervention that does the work of a great deal of willpower.
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7 June 2026 · 5 min · Children
Six and a half weeks of unstructured time used to be the most developmentally important window in a child's year. The research on how summer has changed, and a small practical guide for parents.
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6 June 2026 · 5 min · Families
The research on screen-free family meals, why the practice is genuinely difficult, and a small, evidence-based protocol that most households can install within a fortnight without confrontation.
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5 June 2026 · 5 min · On walking
Wordsworth, Darwin and Beethoven walked daily without anything in their ears. The neuroscience of why this matters, and how to reclaim one walk a day from the audio that has filled all of them.
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4 June 2026 · 5 min · Parenting
A research-backed parent's guide to handling 'I'm bored' well. What's actually happening in your child's developing brain, why rescuing them from boredom is the problem, and the small practice that fixes it.
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3 June 2026 · 4 min · Attention
What the longest-running study of human attention shows: the average uninterrupted focus on a single screen task has collapsed from 150 seconds in 2004 to 47 seconds today. Cited research, plain language.
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2 June 2026 · 5 min · On reading
The cognitive reason adults who used to read fluently are now stuck three pages in, what the research says about sustained-attention decline, and how to start reading again without forcing it.
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1 June 2026 · 6 min · Research
The neuroscience and psychology of boredom, cited properly. What the default mode network does, why being bored generates creative ideas, and why we have quietly lost the conditions for it.
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