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Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius: "How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only to what he does himself, that it may be just and pure."
On the night of May 18–19, 1910, Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet, three months after astronomers detected the poisonous gas cyanogen within it. Sensational reports helped entrepreneurs sell anti-comet pills, mouth inhalers and even comet insurance—but the tail was so extraordinarily diffuse that no harmful effect was detected.
A study of 7,415 people in the NIH's All of Us Research Program suggests that stress translates into measurable biological wear, allostatic load, more consistently in people whose household income sits above the study's median than in those below it, and the researchers' explanation for the gap has nothing to do with resilience
In 1958, the US Air Force commissioned a secret study of detonating a nuclear warhead on the Moon, partly so the flash and sunlit dust cloud could be seen from Earth after America’s humiliation by Sputnik. Project A119’s team included doctoral student Carl Sagan, who turned 24 that year and calculated how the debris would expand in lunar gravity—the plan was quietly abandoned in January 1959 for reasons its own project leader said were never explained to him.
