Good news: it’s getting warmer. Bad news: feet are coming out. Feet and potentially other body parts. Of course the question of what to wear so you don’t make your colleagues snigger depends on where you work. Corporate lawyer? No sliders. Tech bro? Well, I’d still humbly suggest no sliders. ‘Sandals are never acceptable in…
To have an Ozempic personality is essentially to have no personality at all. We all know dieters are never any fun but the ennui that envelops some people on GLP-1s is something more profound. This is not depression — it’s not even as thrilling as that — but what a doctor might call a case…
If your feeds have been flooded with videos of people kneading dough, tending gardens and swearing off screen time in favor of slow-paced Italian grandma energy, you’ve already encountered nonna-maxxing. But here’s what most of the viral posts leave out: the trend isn’t just an aesthetic. There’s actual science behind it — and the habits…
Name: Bedtime stacking. Age: Of the moment. Appearance: Like a full workday for a consumptive 18th-century novelist. The name makes me think TikTok is involved. Correct: the term is credited to the TikToker Linnéa Pham, who coined it in January. And now it’s a full-blown thing? It is. People – mostly young women – have…
Imagine you’re in a meeting room when someone brings out the biscuits – a packet of Jammie Dodgers, perhaps, or a nice little plate of custard creams. Maybe you want one and maybe you don’t, but the chances are the people around you are all responding differently: someone will grab a couple straight away, someone…
CANTIKA.COM, Jakarta – Refreshing our memory together, April 21, 1879, is the birth date of Raden Ajeng Kartini which is commemorated every year as /Kartini Day’ in Indonesia. This commemoration is a form of tribute to her struggle in advocating for gender equality, starting from the right to speak up, education, to the opportunity to…
At 15 I proved the maxim: “hire a teen while they still know everything”. That summer of 1971, I judged the world and concluded that civilisation was meh, and surely doomed. So with the zeal of the truly clueless I resolved to try living off the land, and left behind my comfortable family home and…
‘Sam Altman may control our future,’ The New Yorker opined two weeks ago. ‘But can we really trust him?’ That depends. The co-founder of OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, has faced a lot of heat for trying to upend, well, everything that we do: how we learn, how we work, even how we make…
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – After nearly a decade of anticipation, the prospect of a new BIGBANG world tour no longer feels distant. Just last weekend, the legendary K-pop group emerged as the most talked-about non-headlining act at Coachella 2026, where G-Dragon, Taeyang, and Daesung delivered a commanding performance that transformed the Outdoor Theatre into a spectacle of…
Amir Levine has been quietly working towards a second book for 16 years. When Attached, which he co-wrote with Rachel Heller, was published in 2010, it brought the categories for how we behave in relationships – AKA attachment styles – into the public consciousness. According to attachment theory, you could be anxious (often resulting in…
