Psychology
May 2026
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Psychology
David Attenborough turned 100 last week — and his oldest argument against space exploration is the same conclusion most astronauts come home with
Psychology
Quote by Charles Bukowski: “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
Human Behaviour
NASA's seven-letter framework for navigating loneliness and isolation
Psychology
Adults who consistently return shopping carts, pick up litter, and tidy up after themselves in public aren't just conscientious — they may be acting on a belief that the world is partly their responsibility
Psychology
Retired men get quieter; retired women get busier. Both are dealing with the same problem.
Psychology
Psychology says people who shout the right answer at the TV before the Jeopardy contestant aren't smarter — they're just working with a less filtered version of the question, and the gap between knowing something and retrieving it under pressure is what separates the couch from the stage
Culture
Science fiction writers and filmmakers called AI, mass surveillance, deepfakes, and social credit decades before we had names for them — and the rest of us were busy being entertained by the warnings
Space Industry
China has quietly built its own space station, landed on the far side of the Moon, and brought back lunar samples in roughly the time most western coverage spent debating whether they could and the gap says something uncomfortable about how we still talk about the space race
Culture
Dismissing conspiracy theorists is its own kind of intellectual laziness — because the last fifty years are full of cases where the "crazy" minority was reading the room more accurately than the experts
Human Behaviour
NASA schedules 8.5 hours of sleep for astronauts — and I think it says something quietly unsettling about the way many of us live
Psychology
Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson: “The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
Psychology
The Fermi Paradox has a simple answer that nobody in the space industry wants to take seriously
Human Behaviour
Every serious planetary scientist knows Mars will kill the first people we send there — and we're going anyway
Human Behaviour
The Artemis II crew briefed Congress in May; weeks earlier, the same agency's science directorate faced a 47% cut while human exploration was spared
Constellations