Sheyna Gifford, mission physician for NASA’s sMars simulation, reflects on her year-and-a-day “off-planet,” six months in.
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A Year and a Day in a Mars Simulator: Reflections at the Halfway Mark
At Aeon, Sheyna Gifford, mission physician for NASA’s HI-SEAS IV space exploration analogue, reflects on six months in a Mars simulator. When the six-person crew emerges on August 28th, 2016 — after a year and a day “off-planet” — they’ll have completed the longest NASA-funded Mars simulation in history.
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Was Diane Arbus the Most Radical Photographer of the 20th Century?
With a new biography out and a Met exhibit, Alex Mar reassesses the legacy of photographer Diane Arbus, whose personal life has often overshadowed her stunning, trail-blazing images.
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Space Art Propelled Scientific Exploration of the Cosmos—But Its Star is Fading Fast
The huge, hidden cost to severing the bond between art and science.
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The Best Longreads From Trump’s First 100 Days
After an exhausting first few weeks, the media dug in for the long fight ahead.
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Rebel Virgins and Desert Mothers
The radical women of early Christianity.
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The Care and Keeping of Notebooks: A Reading List
Six stories about notebooks and note-taking.
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The Care and Keeping of Notebooks: A Reading List
Six stories about notebooks and note-taking.
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Researching Our Martian Heritage
In Nautilus, Tim Folger writes about how scientist are still debating whether organic and inorganic materials found on Martian meteorite ALH84001 contain evidence that life existed on Mars before it existed on Earth. If it did, then life could have spread to Earth from meteorites, which could make human beings ─ and other Earthly life ─ […]
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The First Person on Mars
“Evghenia Is on Mars” is a plot-rich fantasy Twitter account purportedly run by a female scientist delivering dispatches from Mars in 140-character bursts. In an unlikely but thoroughly wonderful essay, Smarsh uses Evghenia’s story as a jumping-off point to interrogate her own life, and the strange parallels in both their journeys.
