Contracts with 12 companies aim to test competing designs for boost-phase missile intercept from space

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High performers who finish everything but feel nothing aren't disciplined — they're running a neurological deficit that burnout research is finally starting to map. What the early warning signs actually look like, and why willpower makes it worse.

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The calm voice during conflict often isn't maturity. For many adults, it's a childhood reflex built in a home where honest reactions made things worse, and it quietly costs them the intimacy they most want.

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Week in images: 20-24 April 2026

Discover our week through the lens

My wife said I love her from behind glass, and after a week of trying to disagree, I've stopped trying.

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For more than two decades in sourcing and supply-chain architecture, we’ve watched industries scale only when their supply chains become predictable, certifiable and repeatable.

I’ve been watching this closely over the past few years. There’s a guy I sometimes see at the same café near my apartment in Saigon, probably mid-40s, not conventionally handsome, but people turn toward him when he walks in. He doesn’t try. He doesn’t scan the room to see who’s watching. He just sits down, […]

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I’ve been watching this closely over the past few years. There’s a guy I sometimes see at the same café near my apartment in Saigon, probably mid-40s, not conventionally handsome, but people turn toward him when he walks in. He doesn’t try. He doesn’t scan the room to see who’s watching. He just sits down, […]

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The person who never asks for reassurance often looks like the healthy one. Attachment research suggests something more complicated: they may have simply stopped believing the answer would arrive in a form they could use.

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