A Collection

Data Explorations

Interactive visual pieces on the forces shaping society — built from primary data sources and designed to be read, not just glanced at.

Mental Health · Adolescence

A Data Exploration

The Phone-Based Childhood

Between 2010 and 2015, childhood changed more than in any previous decade. This exploration traces the numbers behind the shift — drawing on CDC, Pew, and academic research.

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Intellectual History · Critical Theory

A Concept Lineage Explorer

The Long March of Ideas

From Hegel and Marx through the Frankfurt School, postmodernism, and Critical Race Theory to today's DEI frameworks. Trace 200 years of intellectual lineage using James Lindsay's analytical framework.

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Management · Organisational Culture

140 Years of Organisational Culture

Culture Lineage

From Frederick Taylor's time-and-motion studies to psychological safety and belonging — trace how the ideas that shape how we work evolved across 7 eras and 39 thinkers.

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Leadership · Management Theory

180 Years of How We Think About Leaders

Leadership Models

From Carlyle's Great Man theory to Edmondson's psychological safety research — trace how leadership thought evolved across six eras, from innate heroism to adaptive collective capacity.

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Psychology · Psychometrics

A History of Attitude Measurement

Measuring the Mind

From Thurstone's equal-appearing intervals (1928) through the Implicit Association Test to AI-assisted scaling — trace how psychologists have tried to quantify what we think, feel, and believe across six eras of method innovation.

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Psychology · Masculinity

120 Years of Psychology and Masculinity

Men's Development

From Freud's psychoanalytic lens to community-based Men's Sheds programs — trace how theory and practice around men's emotional and social development evolved across six eras.

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Psychology · Philosophy of Self

2,500 Years of Human Flourishing Theory

Western Self-Development

From Socrates' injunction to know thyself to positive psychology's PERMA model — trace how the Western tradition has thought about what it means to grow as a human being, across six eras of philosophy and psychology.

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Psychology · Philosophy · Wellbeing

2,500 Years of Human Flourishing Theory

Science of Happiness

From Aristotle's eudaimonia to Bhutan's Gross National Happiness — trace how happiness moved from ancient virtue ethics through utilitarian calculus, hedonic psychology, positive psychology, and national wellbeing indices across 37 figures and 7 eras.

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Psychology · Organizational Behavior

130 Years of Why We Work

Architecture of Motivation

From Taylor's stopwatch to the Great Resignation — trace how motivation theory evolved from scientific management through behaviorism, humanistic psychology, cognitive revolution, self-determination theory, and contemporary purpose frameworks across 44 figures and 7 eras.

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Behavioral Economics · Cognitive Psychology

150 Years of How We Understand Human Choice

Decision-Making Science

From Pascal's probability calculus to AI-assisted nudging — trace how decision science moved from mathematical rationality through bounded cognition, prospect theory, behavioral economics, and ecological rationality across 40 figures and 7 eras.

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Psychology · Trauma Science

120 Years of How We Understand Overwhelming Experience

Lineage of Trauma

From Janet's dissociation at the Salpêtrière to epigenetic transmission in Holocaust descendants — trace how trauma science moved from shell shock through psychoanalysis, feminist reframing, neuroscience, and complex developmental trauma across 7 eras.

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Psychology · Psychometrics · Cognitive Science

Galton to Genomics — 150 Years of Measuring the Mind

Evolution of Intelligence

From Galton's hereditary genius to the Flynn Effect and polygenic scores — trace how intelligence science moved from Victorian anthropometry through IQ testing, factor analysis, multiple intelligences, and genomics across 6 eras.

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Psychology · Personality Science

2,400 Years of How We Explain Who People Are

Construction of Personality

From Hippocrates' four humors to polygenic scores and digital-footprint inference — trace how personality science moved from ancient typology through phrenology, psychoanalysis, trait theory, and the Big Five across 6 eras.

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Mental Health · Epidemiology · Neuroscience

A Data Exploration

The Landscape of Anxiety

359 million affected. A 25% pandemic spike. 9 in 10 untreated. Trace the data, history, and science behind the most prevalent mental health condition on earth — from Kierkegaard to the 2026 GWAS, across epidemiology, neuroscience, and 76 primary sources.

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Mental Health · Epidemiology · Neuroscience

A Data Exploration

The Landscape of Depression

From black bile to glutamate receptors. The most disabling mental health condition — 60% US prevalence increase in a decade, 2/3 untreated worldwide — traced through epidemiology, neuroscience, and 2,400 years of intellectual history.

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