For the men and women who use the Deep Space Network to talk to the heavens, failure is not an option.
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Out Came the Girls
To find belonging, teen girls sometimes form obsessive friendships to fend off the isolation that puberty brings at the twilight of their childhood. In this exceptionally well-researched piece, Alex Mar recalls two real-life events in which teen-girl duos became murderous and why these obsessive friendships devolved into a pact to do evil.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, History, Member Pick, Nonfiction, Story
America’s Post-Frontier Hangover
America binged on expansion, relying on land grabs as an engine of growth and a way to externalize racial hatred. Historian Greg Grandin asks, without a frontier, what can America be?
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Mars Needs Women… Scientists
At the top of the SLS will be the Orion, the capsule designed to take astronauts—men and, yes, now women—as far as Mars (come the 2030s).
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature
Welcome to Mars, Sorry About the Face-Melting!
The Red Planet presents scientists with kinks they’ll need to figure out before you can book a shuttle.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Charting the Love — and Betrayal — in Our Stars
Cherise Morris turns to astrology and Beyoncé lyrics to move through a difficult moment in her relationship.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Charting the Love — and Betrayal — in Our Stars
Cherise Morris turns to astrology and Beyoncé lyrics to move through a difficult moment in her relationship.
Posted inNonfiction
It’s Like That: The Makings of a Hip-Hop Writer
Hip-hop was a different kind of music that needed a different kind of writer to cover it. This is how Michael A. Gonzales came of age in a time when Black writers began breaking the white ceiling.
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Everything About Mars Is the Worst
It may be the worst, but this jerk planet is still humanity’s best hope for another home in the cosmos.
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Palm Beach Van Dyck
A “willingness to flout the laws of space and time” help painter Ralph Cowan form relationships with the kind of people who will pay for a portrait of themselves with a lion, at the mast of a ship, or gliding through a Venetian dreamscape.
