Human Factors
Quote by Carl Jung: "Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but…
Quote source: C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963), p. 356.
Human Factors
The kind of sentence that means nothing until the day it suddenly means everything
There is a particular kind of sentence that means nothing the first time you read it, and then, years later, on an ordinary afternoon, means almost everything.
Psychology
Thought by Carl Sagan: "...every saint and sinner in the history of our species…
Everyone you love lives on less than a pixel There is a photograph people reach for whenever they have just lost an argument, a job, or their nerve.
Science & Engineering
Quote by Bill Nye: "There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young…
Quote source: A traceable published instance appears in the 2016 Caltech Community Science Academy program; the original occasion is not established here.
Space & Missions
A drilling expedition off Nantucket has confirmed a massive freshwater reservoir…
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, oil companies conducting exploratory drilling off the East Coast of the United States occasionally produced an unexpected and somewhat inconvenient result.
Earth & Life
Human creativity may have been forged by hardship rather than abundance
The standard cultural framing of where human creativity comes from has, on the available evidence, been organized around a particular implicit assumption.
Human Factors
Evidence of ancient life has just been found buried inside an asteroid crater
The standard cultural framing of where life on Earth originated has, for most of the last several decades, focused on a particular set of candidate environments.
Psychology
Consciousness might not be something the brain creates
The mainstream scientific framing of consciousness has been, for most of the last century, calibrated to a particular assumption.
Human Factors
Astrophysicists have a quiet ranking of Hollywood's space movies
The wider cultural register has, on the available evidence, a particular list of films that it tends to associate with realistic depictions of space.
Science & Engineering
A new species of mosasaur named Tylosaurus rex
A new species of marine reptile, identified from fossils that have been sitting in various museum collections in North Texas and elsewhere for as long as…
Science & Engineering
Complex animal life may be 10 million years older than scientists thought
The standard cultural framing of where animal life originated has, for most of the last century, placed the origin in shallow water.
Science & Engineering
Boosting SIRT6 reversed about 80% of measured age-related chromatin-accessibility…
Correction, September 20, 2026: The headline and opening were revised to identify the measured liver-cell chromatin endpoint rather than describing it as reversal of 80% of aging in elderly mice.
Culture
The cosmos is silent, slow, vast, and almost entirely indifferent to whether we're…
The cosmos, in any honest accounting, is silent, slow, vast, and almost entirely indifferent to whether we are in it.
Psychology
People who are genuinely kind but feel virtually alone in the world have usually…
There is a particular kind of adult who is, by every external measure, warm. They are pleasant in conversation.
Psychology
People who are truly pleasant and kind but have no close friends often spent…
There is a particular kind of adult, more common than the wider culture has registered, who is by every external measure pleasant, kind, and reliable, who has…
Science & Engineering
Astronauts on the ISS lose about 1-2% of their bone density per month in…
The human skeleton is, on every available physiological measurement, considerably more dynamic than the standard cultural framing tends to credit.