It's a super light super not-that-deep topic this week... (it's not like we're questioning all the human emotions that ever existed or anything!!) In Gal Beckerman's mind bending piece, he spends time with historians who are trying to understand how feelings felt to people in the past. What did pain actually feel like to a medieval blacksmith? What did happiness feel like for a Widow in WWII. One researcher in particular thinks our guess is farther off than any of us might imagine.

Check the article out in The Atlantic here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/human-ancestors-emotion-history/684959/