The Pentagon has stopped debating whether commercial satellites belong in its warfighting plans. It is now building strategy around the certainty that they do. A quiet but significant shift is underway inside the U.S. Space Force, one that moves commercial space from a nice-to-have supplement into the core of military planning. The catalyst was Ukraine, […]

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The shrinking social circle after 40 is one of the most misread psychological signals in adult life. Research and lived experience suggest it's not withdrawal — it's the first honest social decision many people have ever made.

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The popular Dunning-Kruger narrative says incompetent people can't recognize their incompetence. But recent research suggests the real story is different: nearly everyone overestimates themselves, and the rare people who accurately admit what they don't know have crossed a metacognitive threshold that correlates with genuine competence.

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The war in Ukraine turned commercial satellites into weapons of war. Now the Pentagon is building frameworks to harness that power for future conflicts — but its current approach has a fundamental flaw. By focusing on contractual access and procurement models, the military is ignoring the human, legal, and business realities that will determine whether […]

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The World Bank’s latest East Asia and Pacific Economic Update reveals a troubling convergence: China’s economic deceleration, the Iran-Middle East conflict’s disruption of global energy markets, and uncertainty from U.S. tariffs are simultaneously pressing against Southeast Asian economies that had only recently emerged as bright spots in the global picture. The thesis here is not […]

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MILAN – PLD Space signed a 30 million euro ($35 million) venture debt loan with the European Investment Bank (EIB) on April 7, a move to support the final development stage of MIURA 5, PLD’s lightweight rocket.