Psychology
Quote by Kobe Bryant: "The biggest mistake we make in life is thinking we have time"
Kobe Bryant said, somewhere in the last few years of his life, that the biggest mistake we make is thinking we have time.
Constellations
The FCC just handed SpaceX a major spectrum win, but EchoStar’s $2.4 billion escrow fight could reshape the next telecom deal
The Federal Communications Commission has cleared a major spectrum transfer from EchoStar to SpaceX, but the most important part of the decision may not be the airwaves themselves.
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Psychology
Psychology suggests people who stay sharp and perceptive deep into later life may share one habit: they keep participating in the world instead of watching from the sidelines
There is a particular kind of older person who, by the standards of the wider population, has stayed unusually sharp deep into their seventies and eighties.
Human Behaviour
Adults who keep their wants small, their meals modest, and their requests reasonable aren't always humble — some learned that asking for more than the bare minimum got them labelled difficult inside their own families
There is a particular kind of adult who seems easy to please because they rarely ask for much.
Psychology
People comfortable saying "I don't know" may have a more honest relationship with intelligence
I want to write about a small habit I have come to associate, over the last decade or so, with a particular kind of intelligence that the wider culture does not, on the available evidence, fully recognize as intelligence.
Constellations
A Robinhood co-founder just raised $275 million to put AI data centers in orbit — and the real pitch isn't the physics, it's a seven-year waitlist nobody can fix on the ground
Cowboy Space Corp. has raised $275 million in Series B funding to build orbital data centers powered by sunlight and launched on a rocket the company is designing itself.
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Space
Industry news, exploration, and the engineering of getting humans and machines beyond Earth.
A Robinhood co-founder just raised $275 million to put AI data centers in orbit — and the real pitch isn't the physics, it's a seven-year waitlist nobody can fix on the ground
A Florida startup just raised $65 million to beam concentrated sunlight at satellites, and the customer list shows how fast orbital power is becoming a real market
SpaceX is skipping the booster catch on Starship V3's debut flight — and the reason quietly reveals which milestone Musk actually cares about hitting before Artemis
A startup nobody outside aerospace had heard of just signed a real pharma deal — and it quietly answers the question of whether orbital drug manufacturing is a business or a science project
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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Adults who keep their wants small, their meals modest, and their requests reasonable aren't always humble — some learned that asking for more than the bare minimum got them labelled difficult inside their own families
Nobody talks about why the most reliable person in every family quietly disappears in their late sixties, and it isn't bitterness, it's that reliability stopped being noticed roughly forty years before they stopped offering it
Psychology suggests parents who can't stop helping their adult children may be struggling with the fear of becoming unnecessary
Psychology suggests kids who grew up in the 1960s and '70s may have learned a version of emotional resilience modern parenting does not always teach
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Science
Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe.
Researchers studying chronic pain found a brain pathway that may explain why pain keeps going long after an injury should have healed
The sun is already dying — just on a timescale so vast that every civilization in history has been able to treat it as permanent. Project Hail Mary imagines it happening fast. Scientists study what happens when it happens slow — and the answers are stranger than the movie.
I'm 38 and I often feel neither fully happy nor fully sad — and I started wondering whether that flatness was something I learned early
People who regularly dine alone aren't always running from anyone — sometimes eating alone is the meal that finally stops asking them to perform okayness
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