Trump’s Iran War Justification Unravels as His Own Intelligence Chief Breaks Ranks
Monday, 20 April 2026 16:05
On June 14, President Donald Trump posted a statement to Truth Social insisting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had no role in pushing the United States toward military strikes against Iran. “Nobody pushed me into anything,” Trump wrote. “I’ve been saying for years that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. After October 7th, everyone […]
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How do astronauts adapt their grip and move objects when transitioning between Earth and space?
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Psychology says the reason attractive kind people sometimes have no close friends isn’t a personality flaw — it’s that they’ve often spent their whole lives being chosen for what they provide rather than for who they are
Monday, 20 April 2026 15:32
There’s a woman I know in Saigon, a friend of my wife’s, who is, by any ordinary measure, one of the most fortunate people I’ve met. She’s strikingly beautiful. She’s warm with strangers. She speaks three languages. She has a generous laugh. People light up when she walks into a room. She also, as she […]
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Latvia joins the Artemis Accords
Monday, 20 April 2026 15:16
Latvia is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords as part of a new push to use the Accords to foster cooperation on NASA’s lunar exploration ambitions.
The people who mistake self-sufficiency for healing and don’t realize they’ve just gotten better at hiding what still hurts
Monday, 20 April 2026 14:04
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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Quote of the day by Frank Borman “Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.”
Monday, 20 April 2026 14:02
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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NASA shuts off instrument on Voyager 1 to keep spacecraft operating
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Space Force sets up ‘cislunar coordination’ office to focus beyond Earth orbit
Monday, 20 April 2026 13:00
Officials say civil-military overlap with NASA grows as lunar activity accelerates
Hubble turns 36 with a dazzling Trifid Nebula portrait
Monday, 20 April 2026 13:00
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.
The Strait Narrows: US Seizure of Iranian Ship Tests a Fragile Diplomacy
Monday, 20 April 2026 12:35
US naval forces boarded an Iranian-flagged container ship near the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, escalating tensions in the region and pushing fragile diplomatic efforts to the edge of collapse. The operation casts serious doubt on talks scheduled for Monday in Pakistan. President Donald Trump said the vessel had attempted to breach a US […]
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Psychology explains people who grew up in the 1960s aren’t just tougher — they developed a specific kind of resilience that comes from being raised in an era when emotional comfort wasn’t consistently available
Monday, 20 April 2026 12:30
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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There’s a specific kind of loneliness that comes from having plenty of friends and realizing not one of them would notice if you quietly withdrew for a month
Monday, 20 April 2026 12:25
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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Psychologists explain that the people who feel most alone at family gatherings aren’t disconnected from their families — they’ve simply outgrown the version of themselves everyone there still expects them to perform
Monday, 20 April 2026 12:18
The loneliness you feel at your mother's dinner table isn't about proximity — it's about the gap between who you've become and who the room still needs you to be.
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The people who can hold other people’s secrets for years but have never told anyone what they’re actually carrying
Monday, 20 April 2026 12:05
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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In the wake of Artemis 2, America needs to consider the ‘why’ of its government space program
Monday, 20 April 2026 12:00