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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
SpaceX is reflying its sixth cargo Dragon while Boeing's crewed Starliner reverts to uncrewed resupply — and the $4.2B-versus-$2.6B contracts that produced both were signed the same day in 2014
Why do we explore, anyway
The Katy Perry flight wasn't a vanity project. It was the moment the space industry finally admitted who its real customer is — and the backlash, however satisfying it felt, missed the point entirely.
Why Chris Hadfield argues that fear is a knowledge problem, and how we might apply it to our own lives
The quiet freedom of routine
Quote by Brian Cox: “We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”
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
Yes, tracking calories works for weight management — the question nobody is asking is what you're training your nervous system to do in the process
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
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.
