I’ve been noticing something lately — people feel strangely absent, even when they’re right in front of you. This is me thinking through what continuous partial attention and engineered distraction might actually be doing to us over time. Not a guide. Not a solution. Just an observation I couldn’t stop sitting with. If you’ve felt that quiet disconnect too, maybe this lands somewhere.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 — People are strange…
00:48 — The Bus Stop Experiment
04:07 — Something Is Different About People Now
09:26 — Your Attention Is Being Harvested
13:06 — How I Got My Attention Back
16:11 — Actually… Is This Even A Problem?
23 Apr 2026 #Astrum #Space #DarkMatter
Scientists may have just detected dark matter for the first time ever.
Join the adventure with Alex and discover more from DwarfLab at: https://bit.ly/3ObkGXK. And don’t forget to use the code ASTRUM5 for 5% off!
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Dark matter is dark. Invisible. Impossible to see. Or is it? Scientists may have just observed a direct signal from dark matter for the first time ever. Will this discovery allow us to finally figure out what dark matter is made of? Does this finally prove it exists?
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0:00 Dark Matter
1:39 Discovery of Dark Matter
4:31 What Is Dark Matter?
5:59 WIMPs
6:50 Annihilation
8:21 Gamma Ray Signals
12:40 What We Still Don’t Know
15:16 What’s Next?
Credits:
Writer: Sarah Houlton
Video Editor: Suhith
Researcher: Shourya Shrivastava
Script Editor: Damaris McColgan
Thumbnail Designer: Peter Sheppard
Publishing Lead: Georgina Brenner
Production Manager: Raquel Taylor
Edit Producer: Poppy Pinnock
Head of Astrum: Jess Jordan
Creator of Astrum: Alex McColgan
25 Apr 2026
We are currently trapped inside an observational bubble 93 billion light-years across. Every piece of matter we interact with and every beam of light we capture, is permanently anchored to a single, flat surface. For most of human history, we assumed this isolated floor was the absolute limit of existence.
The mathematics of modern physics within the framework of M-theory and brane cosmology show us that our specific universe is highly likely just one small structural piece of a grander geometry. The “bulk” is out there, fully active, filled with drifting parallel realities and the leaked gravity of countless unseen stars. We may never be able to physically step outside our three-dimensional boundary to look at it, but through careful mathematics and rigorous testing, we are finally mapping the larger room.
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Timestamps:
0:00 The Universe
1:12 The Observable Bubble
4:40 The Architecture of Reality
12:05 The Gravity Anomaly
18:38 The Ekpyrotic Origin
26:33 Shadows of Parallel Worlds
30:15 Testing the Invisible
19 Apr 2026 One Mic History (Video Podcast)
America loves to frame Shrimp & Grits as a monument to Southern charm, a $30 luxury brunch dish born out of Charleston high society and genteel hospitality.
That is a lie.
Long before it was gentrified for modern menus, it was a survival food created by Black fishermen looking for a way to supplement their diet