A NASA Centrifuge Comes Back to Life, and With It a Rare Chance to Study Astronauts on Earth
json { “content”: “ Texas A&M University has reactivated a mothballed NASA centrifuge to create what its operators describe as one of the most capable human space research facilities in the United States, filling a gap that has forced American researchers to run partial-gravity studies overseas for more than a decade. The Anthony Wood ’87 […]
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The specific loneliness of being the most capable person in every room you walk into
The most capable person in every room rarely feels like it, and the loneliness that follows is a predictable output of being trusted to carry what no one else will. An editorial look at the specific psychology of high performers in the space industry and beyond.
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India’s BRICS Year: Inheriting a Bloc That Cannot Decide What It Wants to Be
India assumed the chairmanship of a BRICS bloc that has expanded its membership and shrunk in purpose — and that contradiction is India’s problem now. New Delhi inherits the job of leading an organization whose members cannot agree on what it is, and India’s own foreign policy depends on never answering that question. The country […]
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The people who apologize before they speak aren’t polite. They’re bracing for a reaction they learned to expect long before this conversation started.
The habit of apologizing before speaking isn't about manners. It's a nervous-system response built in rooms where speaking without a buffer produced consequences too costly to repeat — and the reflex outlives the rooms that taught it.
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Ceasefire on Paper: Why Demolitions Continue in Lebanon’s Buffer Zone
Displaced Lebanese families began returning to southern Lebanon this week to find ruined homes, active Israeli bulldozers and reports of a newly drawn buffer zone affecting dozens of towns and villages. A temporary ceasefire that reportedly took effect in mid-April has not stopped Israeli military operations, and diplomats on both sides concede the pause is […]
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NASA Signs $175M SpaceX Mars Deal That the White House Is Trying to Kill
NASA just paid SpaceX $175 million to launch a Mars rover that the White House is simultaneously trying to kill. The contract, announced in April by NASA, sends Europe’s Rosalind Franklin rover to Mars aboard a Falcon Heavy in late 2028 — marking the first time Elon Musk’s company will deliver a payload to the […]
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Children who grew up in loud, busy households where nobody asked how they actually were often become adults who feel loneliest in exactly the kinds of gatherings that raised them
The crowd doesn't cure the loneliness. The crowd is where the loneliness was manufactured, and returning to it only reopens the circuit.
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Psychology says the real sign you’ve found your soulmate isn’t how they make you feel — it’s what happens inside you when you realize they see the version of you that you’ve spent your entire life hiding from everyone else, and instead of flinching, they
Most of what gets written about soulmates is about feelings. The butterflies. The chemistry. The sense of knowing “from the first look.” I’ve lived in Saigon long enough to have watched a few marriages unravel around that definition, usually around year five or six, when the feelings predictably cool and one or both people decide […]
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Psychology says the hardest part of having zero close friends isn’t the loneliness – it’s the daily performance required to hide it, because modern social life is structured around the assumption that everyone has someone, and the energy it takes to navig
I’ve written about a lot of uncomfortable psychology topics over the years, but this one took me the longest to put into words, because the people who live it are the least likely to ever admit they do. They’re too busy pretending they don’t. If you have zero close friends right now, you probably already […]
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Why a 24-Hour Tehran Reversal Sent Oil Markets Into Freefall and Then Back Up
Brent crude closed Friday in the high $80s per barrel, its lowest level in recent weeks, after Iran’s foreign minister declared the Strait of Hormuz open to commercial shipping for the duration of a 10-day Israel-Lebanon ceasefire. By Saturday morning, Tehran had partially walked the statement back. The oil market’s whipsaw reaction over 24 hours […]
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