Psychology says the people who seem unusually calm in a crisis aren’t emotionally regulated — they’re often operating from a childhood where panicking was never a luxury they were allowed to have
Thursday, 23 April 2026 11:15
The calm one in the room isn't regulated. They're rehearsed — running a script written by a childhood where falling apart was a privilege assigned to someone else.
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A Saturday‑night dinner onboard the International Space Station
Thursday, 23 April 2026 10:56
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After an intense few weeks the crew took time to celebrate together with a shared meal proposed by ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot.
It’s a long‑standing tradition: each ESA astronaut works with a chef to create a few special dishes reserved for rare occasions — known as “bonus food”. Sophie’s bonus food was created by multi‑Michelin‑starred chef Anne‑Sophie Pic, offering the crew a taste of French gastronomy far from Earth.
Bonus food, tailored to specific crew members, makes up around one tenth of an astronaut’s menu. Astronauts say it adds variety to their meals, supports mental well‑being, and helps strengthen
Everyday operations in orbit: toilet maintenance
Thursday, 23 April 2026 10:51
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In this timelapse, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot performs routine maintenance on the Waste and Hygiene Compartment, or WHC – the ISS toilet system. She is replacing the full solid-waste container in which solid waste is vacuum-dried, compressed and kept airtight. This operation typically takes place once or twice a week, when the container reaches capacity.
Scientists focus on the challenges of working and living in outer space
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The people who apologize for taking up space in conversations were usually raised by adults who treated their emotions like interruptions
Thursday, 23 April 2026 10:07
Adults who constantly apologize for speaking aren't lacking confidence — they're running a childhood protocol that treated their emotions as interruptions to the adult signal.
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House Science Committee pans NASA budget request
Thursday, 23 April 2026 09:58
Members of the House Science Committee rejected a proposed fiscal year 2027 budget for NASA because of sweeping cuts as the agency’s administrator argued it could do more with less.
Pentagon closes $1 billion investment in L3Harris missile unit
Thursday, 23 April 2026 09:40
Deal gives government future ownership in Missile Solutions business
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The particular loneliness of realizing the person you’ve become would have been unrecognizable to the person you were at 30, and you’re not sure which of them you owe an apology
Thursday, 23 April 2026 09:10
Becoming someone your younger self wouldn't recognize is supposed to be called growth, but sometimes it's just a slow betrayal you can't decide who to confess to.
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People born between 1945 and 1965 learned to measure their worth by their usefulness, and many are only now discovering what it feels like to simply exist without earning it
Thursday, 23 April 2026 08:53
For a generation raised to equate worth with output, retirement isn't a reward — it's a slow, terrifying encounter with the self that was always there underneath the work.
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Jealousy isn’t about what someone else has. It’s a map showing you where you’ve abandoned your own wanting.
Thursday, 23 April 2026 08:07
Jealousy rarely reveals what you think it does. Examined closely, it becomes a precise map of the desires you've abandoned — and a compass pointing toward the life you've quietly refused to let yourself want.
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Electron launches Japanese cubesats
Thursday, 23 April 2026 07:59
A Rocket Lab Electron launched a set of cubesats sponsored by the Japanese space agency JAXA April 22 on the company’s second dedicated mission for the agency.
Plato aces space-like tests
Thursday, 23 April 2026 07:00
The European Space Agency Plato mission has successfully completed a series of tough tests under space‑like conditions. With this accomplishment, the spacecraft is on track to lift off in early 2027 and begin its search for terrestrial planets.
The people who cry in the car before walking into their own homes aren’t unhappy with their lives. They just need one place where nobody needs anything from them.
Thursday, 23 April 2026 06:05
The driveway cry is not a sign of an unhappy life. It is the body completing a stress response that the day never let it finish, and it reveals something specific about how modern adulthood has structured rest.
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SOLIS100 isolation study begins in Germany
Thursday, 23 April 2026 06:00
Six volunteers have stepped into a sealed habitat in Cologne, Germany, marking the start of SOLIS100, a new human isolation study led by the European Space Agency (ESA) and conducted by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
Univity funds VLEO 5G demonstrators with $32 million Series A
Thursday, 23 April 2026 05:00
French startup Univity has raised around $32 million to deploy a pair of 5G demonstrators into very low Earth orbit next year, ahead of plans for at least 1,600 VLEO satellites to help telecom operators extend 5G coverage from space.

