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Science spoiler: lazy people don't have too little dopamine. They have too much of it, just in the wrong region of the brain. Here's what that changes about your next Monday morning.

HOW TO BEAT LAZINESS

Biology, physics and a lot of experimentation!  

Science

How to keep the brain young isn't a self-help question — it's one of the most active areas of neuroscience today. Three pillars show up across nearly every study, and none of them runs through comfort.

How to Keep Your Brain Young

Test new diets, routines, workout regimens and see what best suits your body and mind

Health & Diet

More than 3 out of 4 American workers report some level of burnout. Learn to spot the warning sign before it turns into a diagnosis.

How to Spot Burnout: The Point Where Tiredness Stops Being Tiredness

Why do some people walk into the locker room at halftime of a championship final and change the game... while others watch it on TV? Science has three answers, and elite sports have the stories that prove them. A 12min Radar on how crisis doesn't create the leader... it reveals the material the leader will work with for the rest of his or her life. Featuring Jordan, Bernardinho, Ferguson, Phil Jackson, and three of the most cited leadership studies in the world.

How Crisis Forges a Leader

Google launched Gemini Omni on Tuesday, an artificial intelligence that creates and edits videos through conversation, builds avatars with the user's own voice and face, and rolls out free on YouTube Shorts. In this Radar, we cover what changes, what to worry about, and what to do with the news that puts deepfake production within reach of anyone.

Was video proof? Used to be... look at Google's new AI

Anoria, freshly out of Y Combinator, just launched a bracelet that claims to read emotions in real time and train your emotional intelligence. This Radar unpacks the promise, weighs it against what wearable-emotion science actually supports, and lays out the stakes when the most intimate sensor on the market lands on your wrist.

Anoria: the AI bracelet that reads emotions

A few weeks out from the 2026 World Cup, this Radar revisits five times an unlikely name became the central figure of a Mundial: Hurst in 66, Rossi in 82, Schillaci and Goycochea in 90, and Branco in 94. What these cases share, and what they teach about who actually decides a World Cup.

Unlikely World Cup heroes

Understanding the science behind your decision making and behavior is a great asset in the battle to a more fulfilled life.

Psychology

A discovery in the brain's own immune cells is challenging the dominant model of anxiety treatment. This Radar breaks down the study, what it changes, and what's still worth doing while the science catches up.

What anxiety is, and what to do about it

Trump landed in Beijing with Musk, Tim Cook, Jensen Huang, and more than a dozen heads of major American companies in tow. It is the first visit by a sitting American president to China in nearly ten years. On the table: tariffs, Taiwan, rare earths, AI chips, and the war with Iran. This radar walks through who is on the plane, why each name matters, which scenarios are in play, and what signals to watch in the next forty-eight hours to tell whether the summit delivered stability, noise, or a real shift.

Trump in Beijing: What's on the Table Now

What great leaders are made of? Learn from the people who have more to offer in the realm of leadership than just words. 

Management & Leadership

Cicero trained his voice against the sound of the waves. Demosthenes rehearsed with pebbles in his mouth. Churchill repeated every speech in front of the mirror. The greatest orators in history were not born fluent... they learned to speak the way someone learns to lift weights. This Radar shows why rhetoric is the most underestimated muscle of any career, and why the professional who knows how to name what she does rises faster than the technically equal or superior colleague who cannot explain herself.

The power of rhetoric

Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin in 2009, accumulated over a million coins, and disappeared without a trace. Now, a New York Times investigation points to British cryptographer Adam Back as the leading suspect. In this Radar 12min, we tell the full story: from the cypherpunks to the genesis block, from the 2008 crisis to the 78-billion-dollar fortune no one has ever touched. And we explain why Satoshi's identity matters to anyone who invests, builds businesses, or wants to understand the future of money.

The richest ghost in the world: who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Radar twelve min tracks what is shifting in the worlds of technology, science, and business and translates it into useful reading. No alarmism, no hype, just enough context for you to form your own opinion about what is coming.

TRIBE V2 — THE MACHINE THAT LEARNED TO READ THE BRAIN


In two thousand and twenty-six, war became a content strategy. From Call of Duty-style videos posted by the White House to Lego animations produced for the Iranian government, this piece maps how memes, AI-generated images, and viral propaganda are shaping global perception of the Iran conflict... and why the real battle may now be happening in your feed.

War and Memes... How Propaganda Went Viral

This Radar twelve minutes examines whether the conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran in March two thousand twenty-six marks the beginning of a Third World War. It covers the four criteria that define a world war, the actual positions of Russia and China, the concrete risks of escalation, and what to monitor in order to separate legitimate concern from unfounded panic.

Is This the Start of World War Three?

Radar 12min is a narrative audio journalism show produced by 12min. Each episode takes one relevant topic and turns it into a dense, direct story — no filler, no fluff. You get verified facts, real context, and a closing section that helps you think through what to actually do with the information. This episode is about artificial intelligence... but not the kind you've already heard about a hundred times. It's about what AI is doing right now, in the real world.

Five real stories about what AI is already capable of doing

An Austrian programmer built in one hour the software that is transforming China. OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent that does not just talk... it acts: it replies to emails, operates programs, buys tickets, and works around the clock. Millions of Chinese are "raising lobsters," local governments are offering multimillion-yuan subsidies, and a new model of one-person companies is emerging. But the security risks are real. This Radar covers both sides of the revolution.

What Is OpenClaw and Why It Matters

A survey of nearly four thousand young Europeans found that more than half would rather talk about mental health with a chatbot than with a psychologist. This Radar walks through the survey's findings, the cases where that relationship ended in tragedy, and what's driving a trend that arrived faster than healthcare systems were prepared to handle.

AI THERAPY: THE WAVE SWEEPING YOUNG EUROPE

This Radar twelve min explains what actually happens when oil prices surge, using the shocks of nineteen seventy-three, seventy-nine, and two thousand and eight as reference points, and connecting them to the Strait of Hormuz closure in March two thousand and twenty-six. It traces the cascade from crude oil to fuel, food, fertilizer, gas, airfares, and monetary policy, with four concrete scenarios and actionable guidance for consumers, businesses, and investors.

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