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As of September 2026, humanity has two continuously crewed space stations: Chinas Tiangong, occupied without interruption since 2022, and the International Space Station. If the ISS retires around 2030 before replacement stations are ready, Tiangong coul
The Daily Orbit
Two space stations currently sustain uninterrupted human occupation in Earth orbit. The International Space Station has the longer record, with crews living aboard since November 2000. Chinas Tiango ...[Continue Reading]
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How post-9/11 Islamophobia sparked a Muslim political awakening in NYC
Arya Sundaram
Just a few days after the 9/11 attacks, then-16-year-old Faiza Ali was wearing a hijab at a Rite Aid near her home in Midwood, Brooklyn, when a screaming woman told her to leave. The woman pushed Ali ...[Continue Reading]
Gothamist
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A Democratic Blue Wave Could Hit Governors Races, Too
Ed Kilgore
Democrats have reason to hope that a blue wave in the midterm elections, fed by Donald Trumps unpopularity, will help them flip the House and maybe even the Senate this year. National dynamics are ty ...[Continue Reading]
New York Magazine
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Destroying Books to Build a Mind
Francesca Mancino
Petras, the bookstore owner in Toronto, said that she was generally comfortable selling to undercover buyers, but that she would never sell them a book with interesting marginalia or an important pro ...[Continue Reading]
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The New Yorker
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The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart
Jay Caspian Kang
Since then, the panic about tanking has waxed and waned. If there was a high-water mark, it was between 2013 and 2015, when Sam Hinkie, a former finance and management-consulting professional, took o ...[Continue Reading]
The New Yorker
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Write Things Down
Ben Thompson
It was Merlin Mann and his 43folders website who introduced me to David Allen and Getting Things Done. Getting Things Done, a book which I have gifted multiple people, is first and foremost a philoso ...[Continue Reading]
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