Psychology
May 2026
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Human Behaviour
Psychology suggests people who still navigate by memory instead of relying on GPS usually aren't being stubborn — they've kept a relationship with the physical world that the rest of us quietly outsourced about fifteen years ago and haven't quite figured out how to replace
Human Behaviour
Calorie tracking can support weight management, but its psychological effects vary
Psychology
Adults who can sit through a movie without reaching for their phone understand something most of us haven't quite admitted — that the phone keeps promising rest, distraction, and connection, and rarely actually delivers any of them, and the small daily disappointment is what's been quietly exhausting everyone who hasn't put it down
Human Behaviour
NASA's inspector general called the Space Launch System unsustainable at $4.1 billion per flight. House appropriators just added another billion above what NASA itself asked for, and forbade reallocation.
Constellations
Iridium just bought out the company tracking 190,000 flights a day, and the $367 million price tag is really a bet that GPS is quietly becoming unreliable
Constellations
The Robinhood co-founder just filed plans for 20,000 satellites — and the real bet isn't space, it's that grid interconnect queues have broken AI infrastructure on Earth
Human Behaviour
Coffee consumption can affect gut microbes, but microbes do not run the brain
Culture
The one safe prediction anyone can make is that technology will keep moving faster than the rest of us can keep up with — and the small daily tiredness most adults can't quite explain is the cost of trying
Culture
10 cities that look so much like sci-fi movie sets, you'll have to remind yourself you didn't fly into the future
Human Behaviour
Life lessons from the 1960s and 70s that are almost non-existent in 2026
Psychology
The clearest sign you're talking to a high-level thinker is that they'll change their mind in front of you mid-conversation — and most people will not do that in public at any cost
Space Travel
The Artemis 2 astronauts came home from 252,756 miles away with the same line — "planet Earth, you are a crew" — and it's the kind of thing that sounds like a slogan until you hear who said it and why
Internet Space
The same precision sensor that kept Webb locked on galaxies 13 billion light-years away has been quietly miniaturized — and it's about to solve the navigation problem nobody wanted to discuss on the way to the Moon
Constellations
A Falcon 9 upper stage burned up over Europe last February, and German scientists just caught it doing something to the atmosphere nobody had directly measured before
Constellation