Self-sufficiency and healing look identical from the outside, but one increases your capacity for connection and the other quietly shrinks it. Here's how to tell which one you're actually doing.

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There’s a phenomenon astronauts often describe called the Overview Effect. It’s that radical shift in perspective you get when you see Earth from space. Borders disappear. The squabbles that consumed your attention down on the surface suddenly look ridiculous. You realize, in your bones rather than just your head, that we’re all on the same […]

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Officials say civil-military overlap with NASA grows as lunar activity accelerates

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope looked at a scene it first captured in 1997 in honour of 36th anniversary: a small portion of a star-forming region about 5000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, known as the Trifid Nebula. The image shows changes over incredibly short timescales and instills a sense of awe and wonder about our ever-changing Universe.

I grew up in Australia in the nineties and two-thousands, so I wasn’t a 1960s kid. But my parents were. And most of the adults who shaped my life when I was young were people whose childhood happened in the decade of miniskirts, moon landings, and a kind of emotional climate that’s almost impossible to […]

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The loneliness of being surrounded by friends who would not notice your absence is not about friendship shortage — it is about the architecture of modern connection itself.

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The people everyone trusts with their hardest information carry a psychological load that rarely gets named. New research on secrecy reveals why holding other people's secrets for years is quietly exhausting — and what actually helps.

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China has built or is building dozens of satellite factories with a combined theoretical output of over 7,000 spacecraft per year, yet launched just several hundred satellites in 2025 — a gap that defines both the ambition and the bottleneck of the country’s commercial space buildout. The figures come from a survey by Chinese space […]

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The reflex to apologize before contributing to a meeting you were invited to isn't politeness. It's a small tax people pay on their own presence, and the cost compounds in ways most don't notice until much later.

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