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Through the ‘Deadly’ Van Allen Belts: How Apollo Really Reached the Moon Key Takeaways (TL;DR) The Van Allen belts are regions of trapped charged particles around Earth, not an impenetrable wall of instant death. Apollo spacecraft spent only about 1–2 hours per leg in the belts and followed trajectories through thinner regions, keeping astronaut doses […]
“Last Black Friday ever” is a headline designed to attract clicks through scarcity and the fear of missing out, playing into the long-standing consumer habit of ritual shopping. However, as 2025 approaches, writers have legitimate reasons to heighten the drama—Adobe Analytics and the National Retail Federation unveiled projections in October and November that indicate record […]
On Nov. 19, 2025, Amazon MGM Studios confirmed fans’ long-held hopes: Stargate, the franchise that began with Roland Emmerich’s 1994 film, will return as a new original series on Prime Video. Martin Gero—who has worked as a writer and producer on Stargate SG‑1, Stargate: Atlantis, and Stargate Universe—will be the series’ creator and showrunner. Amazon […]
NASA announced on Nov. 17, 2025, that it would host a public livestream on Nov. 19 to release a collection of imagery of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. These images were collected using Hubble, Mars orbiters, and various Earth-based telescopes. The agency framed the event as a rare chance to see high-resolution views of an object crossing […]
The Montauk Project narrative resembles a mix of Cold War secret programs, time travel fantasy, and fringe psychotherapy. It references a real location—Montauk Air Force Station, later known as Camp Hero—and is layered with a dense mythology involving mind control experiments, time travel, and child abuse. The situation complicates when actual history and invented stories […]
Ayahuasca occupies an unsettling space where ancient ritual meets modern tourism. This Amazonian brew, crafted from Banisteriopsis caapi and DMT-containing leaves, has attracted thousands to ceremonies and many more to clinical trials. This surge has produced two parallel narratives: researchers highlighting both benefits and transient harms, alongside media stories of ceremonies ending in trauma or […]
Warnings that “AI will eat your soul” may attract attention, but the convergence of brain implants, reproductive engineering, and AI augmentation is a technical reality with clear milestones. By the mid-2020s, companies transitioned from lab animals to human subjects, leading clinicians to confront vital questions about consent, neural privacy, and the line between therapy and […]
On November 18, 2025, a configuration error at an internet infrastructure firm triggered a global outage, taking X, ChatGPT, and hundreds of other services offline for several hours. Close in time, investigators and open-source monitors documented multiple explosions and fires at Russian energy and military sites during mid-November, igniting a separate wave of geopolitical alarm. […]
Late in November 2025, a peculiar sequence of events—a mysterious shortwave silence, sabotage on a Polish rail artery, and viral claims concerning assassination plots advocating nuclear attacks—pushed an already anxious public toward doomsday thinking. The technical realities and the media narrative portray two stories: one about verifiable incidents that alter risk calculations and another about […]