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Goldman Sachs came to own 680,000 acres of Tierra del Fuego when a timber company's debt went bad — and instead of selling, the bank gave all of it away to a wildlife society, and forests once marked for clear-cutting became one of Chile's largest private nature reserves
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (26+ words) Investment banks acquire strange things when loans go bad. In 2002, Goldman Sachs bought a portfolio of distressed debt — the kind of bulk purchase of soured...
OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman and his wife Anna put $5.5 million toward buying the 63-acre Moon Camp shoreline at Big Bear Lake, stopping a planned 50-home marina near the Jackie and Shadow bald eagle nest
1+ week, 1+ day ago (24+ words) An AI executive's $5.5 million gift saves a California lakeside nesting ground from development, protecting the eagles whose livestreamed lives captivate millions....
A tiny Central American country abolished its entire army in 1948 and poured the money into schools and healthcare instead, and decades later it consistently ranks among the happiest and longest-living nations on Earth.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (792+ words) There are a small number of large decisions in twentieth-century political history that turned out, decades later, to have delivered almost exactly what the...
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus: "If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonorable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonor remains."
1+ week, 4+ day ago (28+ words) "If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains," the Stoic teacher Musonius Rufus told his students in Rome, sometime...
Quote by author Ursula K. Le Guin: “It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
2+ week, 1+ day ago (771+ words) The goals we chase for decades often deliver less fulfillment than the pursuit itself—a lesson best learned before you finally achieve them....
Thought of the day from philosopher Socrates: "He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
2+ week, 6+ day ago (27+ words) Most of us have spent some part of our lives convinced that a specific future thing would finally make everything alright. The bigger salary. The house with...
The United States recorded 178 rocket launches in 2025. Trump’s new national space policy directs American ranges to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries annually by 2030—an average of nearly three spaceflight operations every day.
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (1090+ words) The White House wants American ranges capable of supporting more than 1,000 launches and reentries a year by 2030. The target is broader than the 178-launch baseline and will test ranges, airspace and regulation. By The Daily Orbit · Edited by Lachlan Brown…...
SpaceX built the most powerful rocket in history without landing legs on its upper stage, designing it instead to be caught after re-entry by a pair of giant arms on the launch tower — and Elon Musk now says the first attempt could come within months.
3+ week, 2+ day ago (440+ words) SpaceX has already caught a Super Heavy booster. Catching the re-entering Starship upper stage would test whether its legless design can become a practical reuse system....
Brain implants are beginning to move from science fiction into clinical trials: people with paralysis are already testing systems that can turn neural signals into cursor movement, robotic-arm control, and even decoded speech
3+ week, 2+ day ago (290+ words) The paralyzed and speech-impaired are proving that brain implants can restore communication—not in labs, but at home, at speeds approaching natural conversation. Published August 21, 2026 · How we edit Casey Harrell said close to two million words in nearly two years....
On 19 August 2026, SpaceX pushed its Starlink constellation past 11,000 satellites in orbit — meaning a single network now accounts for roughly two-thirds of all active satellites circling Earth.
3+ week, 4+ day ago (791+ words) A 24-satellite launch appears to have taken Starlink beyond 11,000 spacecraft in orbit, while active-satellite indexes continue to put its global share near two-thirds....