Stories often left at the edges of textbooks, with traceable sources. We use them to ask questions of the present; when we publish a forecast, we state its date, horizon and test.
Society & habits →Is the renewed focus on exercise and food a response to uncertainty or a sign of prosperity? The evidence shows strong sports participation, but also gaps and social differences.
Continuous sports participation in Italy was 2.6% in 1959 and 30.3% in 2025. The long arc crosses very different economic periods.
A high pump price alone does not bring back car-free Sundays. We compare the 1973 supply shock with today’s diesel price and set out a testable scenario through 31 December 2026.
Tambora erupted in 1815 and global cooling followed. The causal chain is a lesson in tracing far-reaching effects.
The Carrington event linked an observed solar flare to faults and shocks on telegraph lines: a case for studying infrastructure exposure.
