Voids, competitions, Norwegians, and Talk Talk

Economics

• People are filling a void in their life with work, and it isn’t panning out so well
• When individual behaviors turn competitive, and how we sabotage others and then coast

Psychology

• Pew Survey: The concerns and challenges of being a U.S. teen
• The dark Norwegiantown that built a giant mirror to send in sunlight

Futures

• Evidence is mounting that we are on the road to civilisation collapse. The upside:civilizations collapse all the time. 

Obit

• Talk Talk’s Mark Holis is dead at 64. Here’s Life’s What You Make It (1997 Remaster)