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  1. Van Allen’s Doughnuts: A Radiation Belt Retrospective

    In 1958, a physicist launched a satellite and discovered Earth is surrounded by invisible doughnut-shaped rings of trapped radiation.

  2. Planets We Were Fairly Sure About Until We Weren’t: A Retrospective

    Science revises itself.

  3. Gravitons: Delulu but Make It Theoretical

    Gravity has been the main character of the universe for 13.8 billion years and still hasn't confirmed its own carrier particle.

  4. Lunar Residential Guidelines (or: Everything That Can Kill You Between Here and There)

    A practical examination of what it actually means to live on the Moon, why your skeleton has opinions about partial gravity, and how humanity plans to establish permanent residence on an airless rock that spent 4.5 billion years being perfectly content wi…

  5. Exponential vs Gaussian: A Guide to Not Being Fooled By Dense Gas

    How a subtle difference in spectral line shapes revealed that astronomers had been measuring the wrong thing for years, and why sometimes revolutionary discoveries hide in mathematical functions most people assume are interchangeable.

  6. The First Hilton Hotel In Space

    How a real hotel chain became the most believable part of a future otherwise filled with sentient computers and incomprehensible alien artifacts.

  7. A Manager’s Guide to Orbital Mechanics

    An examination of why understanding the difference between 'to' and 'on' becomes critically important when those prepositions involve the Moon and billions of dollars in government contracts.

  8. MapQuest: The Brief, Glorious Era of Printed Directions

    A nostalgic examination of the three-year period when humanity tried to bridge the gap between stationary computers and mobile humans by printing things and hoping for the best.

  9. The Great Filter: A Survival Guide for Civilizations That Want to Stay Interesting

    A practical guide to avoiding cosmic irrelevance through strategic inefficiency and the calculated preservation of drama.

  10. Point Nemo: A Retirement Community for Things That Served Their Purpose

    A practical guide to humanity's most exclusive underwater graveyard, where spacecraft go to rest and nobody can hear you splash.

  11. Prime Numbers and Public Relations: How to Market Your Species Responsibly

    A practical guide to broadcasting existence, composing coherent messages, and avoiding the cosmic equivalent of reply-all disasters.

  12. Why Does The Interstellar Insist On Throwing Rocks At Us?

    A short guide to the universe’s habit of flinging debris into our solar system, and humanity’s equally strange habit of taking it personally.