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In September 1947, engineers at Harvard pulled a moth from a relay inside the Mark II computer, taped it into the logbook, and wrote 'first actual case of bug being found' — the pest was literal

In September 1947, engineers at Harvard pulled a moth from a relay inside the Mark II computer, taped it into the logbook, and wrote ‘first actual case of bug being found’ — the pest was literal

The famous moth taped into a Harvard logbook in 1947 is often called the birth of the word “bug” in computing. The truth is stranger and older — the engineers were making a joke that only worked because the term already had decades of history.

Behavioral scientists found that people without children develop a relationship to mortality that is psychologically distinct — without biological continuation, they must construct meaning through contribution, connection, and presence rather than lineage, and that construction is both harder and, when successful, more intentional than most people realize

Psychology says people who stack their plates and tidy up before leaving a restaurant aren’t trying to impress anyone — they never forgot what it felt like to be the one who had to clean up after people who didn’t

I grew up lower-middle class and I’ve noticed that every time I’m asked to describe my childhood I instinctively say “we weren’t rich but we had everything we needed” — and I’ve started wondering who I’m protecting with that sentence, my parents or myself

Psychology says the loneliest people in a room are often the most socially skilled because they learned early to perform connection instead of feel it

In September 1947, engineers at Harvard pulled a moth from a relay inside the Mark II computer, taped it into the logbook, and wrote 'first actual case of bug being found' — the pest was literal

In September 1947, engineers at Harvard pulled a moth from a relay inside the Mark II computer, taped it into the logbook, and wrote ‘first actual case of bug being found’ — the pest was literal

The famous moth taped into a Harvard logbook in 1947 is often called the birth of the word “bug” in computing. The truth is stranger and older — the engineers were making a joke that only worked because the term already had decades of history.

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jul 20, 2026

Behavioral scientists found that people without children develop a relationship to mortality that is psychologically distinct — without biological continuation, they must construct meaning through contribution, connection, and presence rather than lineage, and that construction is both harder and, when successful, more intentional than most people realize

By Brendan Brown – Jul 20, 2026

Psychology says people who stack their plates and tidy up before leaving a restaurant aren’t trying to impress anyone — they never forgot what it felt like to be the one who had to clean up after people who didn’t

By Brendan Brown – Jul 20, 2026

I grew up lower-middle class and I’ve noticed that every time I’m asked to describe my childhood I instinctively say “we weren’t rich but we had everything we needed” — and I’ve started wondering who I’m protecting with that sentence, my parents or myself

By Brendan Brown – Jul 20, 2026

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Psychology says the loneliest people in a room are often the most socially skilled because they learned early to perform connection instead of feel it

By Brendan Brown – Jul 19, 2026

I’m 38 and I watched my parents retire with everything they worked for — a paid-off house, savings, good health — and then slowly, year by year, become two people who sit in separate rooms scrolling their phones because they forgot how to be interesting to each other

By lachlan – Jul 17, 2026

Psychology says the most dangerous form of loneliness isn’t being alone. It’s being surrounded by people while performing a version of yourself that none of them would recognize if they saw you at home on a Sunday afternoon.

By Brendan Brown – Jul 17, 2026

If you double-check if the door is locked (even when you know it is), psychology says you likely have these 8 distinct traits

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jun 27, 2026

Psychology says people who push their chair back in when they leave a table usually display these 9 unique behaviors

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jun 27, 2026

When Sony shipped the first Walkman in 1979, chairman Akio Morita insisted on a second headphone jack and a “hotline” talk button, convinced it would be rude for one person to listen to music alone — and within a few years buyers had ignored the sociable features so completely that Sony quietly dropped them

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jun 15, 2026

Russia still custom-builds the Soyuz return seats for ISS crew members using plaster casts taken weeks before launch, because astronauts grow as much as five centimetres taller during a long-duration stay and a seat moulded to their Earth-shaped spine would no longer fit the body that comes home

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jun 12, 2026

Mycorrhizal fungi colonised plant roots roughly 450 million years ago and biologists now suspect plants could never have moved out of the oceans onto bare rock without them, meaning every forest on Earth — including the redwoods, the Amazon, and the boreal belt — is still running on a partnership older than trees themselves

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jun 11, 2026

Close-up of a young adult using a smartphone outdoors, highlighting modern technology and connectivity.

The “CrackBerry” nickname stuck for a reason — and the variable-reward psychology that hooked early-2000s executives on their BlackBerrys is the exact same machinery now running every push notification on every smartphone in your pocket

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jun 11, 2026

Intricate network of tree roots and moss on a forest hillside, showcasing nature's resilience.

Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13 dioxide, and nine days later found carbon had crossed between species through fungal threads in the British Columbia soil beneath her boots

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jun 10, 2026

Close-up of glowing jellyfish swimming gracefully in deep green ocean waters.

A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when injured or starving, effectively restarting its life cycle, and biologists have so far failed to identify any natural limit to how many times it can do this.

The tiny jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii can reorganise its adult cells back into a juvenile polyp when stressed, restarting its life cycle indefinitely. Biologists have observed more than ten reversals in a single animal and have yet to find any limit.

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jun 10, 2026

Octopuses possess roughly 500 million neurons distributed across their body, with two-thirds located in their arms rather than their central brain, meaning each arm can taste, problem-solve, and react to stimuli independently of whatever the octopus is otherwise paying attention to.

The octopus carries about 500 million neurons, but only a third sit in its central brain. The rest run its eight arms, each able to taste, decide, and act on its own.

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jun 10, 2026

Explore the historic Roman bridge in lush Salamanca, Spain captured beautifully in daylight.

The Roman aqueduct at Segovia, built around the first century AD without mortar, still carried water into the 1970s, its 167 granite arches held together by nothing but the precise weight distribution of stones cut to fit each other within fractions of a millimeter.

The Aqueduct of Segovia delivered drinking water to a Spanish city for nearly nineteen centuries using nothing but precisely cut granite blocks held in place by their own weight. It was finally retired in 1973 — not because it failed, but because car exhaust was eating the stone.

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jun 10, 2026

In 1843, Ada Lovelace described a brass-and-punched-card engine that could act on symbols as well as numbers, even composing music if harmony could be reduced to rules, inside seven translator’s notes three times longer than the paper itself

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jun 10, 2026

Bright modern laboratory with computers and technical equipment for research and analysis.

ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was supposed to read ‘LOGIN’ — but the system crashed after the L and the O, meaning the first word ever transmitted over the network that became the internet was, by accident, ‘LO’.

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jun 9, 2026

In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill Gates while it was in development — it demanded twice the memory of a typical home PC, sold roughly 30,000 copies, and was dead within a year, leaving behind the font Comic Sans and the animated assistant that became Clippy.

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jun 9, 2026

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