12/05/2026
Rich Monday Paper - Look Up Edition 99
brings us one step closer to the first 100 issues of good news.
Harder than ever to source, good news is our main focus in balancing the storm of toxic information coming at you from all directions.
Every time we visit Michelangelo's masterpiece, we realise that he did not paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling for people who stare at their feet. He painted it for the ones willing to look up. This edition is no different. Every story is an invitation to raise your eyes: at the sky, at the world and at your own life, where the most important story of the week is the one only you can tell.
Gracing the cover, Larry Kulchawik reveals why a trillion-dollar trade show industry remains invisible to outsiders and what the evolution of face-to-face connection tells us about a world racing to replace it with screens.
We continue our conversation with scientists and authors on the Conversation series, asking what level of evolution the language can open and whether we will let the machines speak for us.
Hollywood celebrities and the FBI legends agree that Anthony P. Jones's Sorrowful Mysteries, a thriller about faith, betrayal and centuries-old secrets inside the Catholic Church, arrives in a week when reality becomes stranger than fiction as a real president ( but feel free to define real, right ?) and the Pope are arguing about exactly the same things.
It is true that we are not here too often but for a good reason: we are busy painting our Sistine Chapel, one story at a time.
Look up. We hope to inspire you to put your name on the next story.