Eat Better
Food, food systems, recipes — the centre of gravity.
UC Santa Barbara scientists just built a liquid that stores sunlight for years at nearly double a lithium battery's energy density — and the part worth noticing isn't the chemistry, it's what gets subtracted
Two Perfect Day veterans just raised $2 million for a precision fermentation startup that isn’t chasing dairy substitutes anymore
How a humble Spanish dish made me fall in love with vegetables
Mars Petcare just quietly tilted its alternative-protein hunt toward Asia-Pacific — and the reason has less to do with pet food innovation than with collapsing birth rates reshaping who fills the family bowl
Live Lighter
Sustainability, sustainable fashion, lighter travel.
I used to think I needed to travel to feel alive. What I actually needed was harder to admit
7 Things Worth Dropping This Year That Make Life Feel Richer, Not Poorer
A deadly outbreak on an Antarctica cruise is raising alarms about rodents, landfills, and climate-era disease
A scientific concept called entropy helps explain why positive travel experiences may slow down some signs of ageing
Think Deeper
Psychology, behavior, philosophy — the interior of conscious living.
What Hemingway's "True Nobility" Quote Is Actually Saying — And What It's Not
Half your suffering is coming from trying to control things that were never yours to control — the weather, the traffic, whether people like you, how someone interpreted a message you sent three days ago
People who reach retirement with no close friends are sometimes the people who held closeness to a higher standard than most adults are willing to apply — and the small daily cost of that standard accumulated quietly into the season they're sitting in now, which isn't really loneliness so much as honest accounting.
Psychology says people who become happier in their second half of life usually haven't fixed their problems — they've simply stopped treating their problems as obstacles to happiness
VegOut on YouTube
Food-systems video essays.
What we eat, the industries behind it, and the cultural conversations around eating — on video.
Where to eat plant-based
Open the VegOut Map — every plant-based spot we have covered, pinned on a navigable world map. Filter by city to find what we have written.
