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William Shatner experienced profound grief in space. It was the overview effect : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/23/1130482740/william-shatner-jeff-bezos-space-travel-overview-effect

William Shatner was excited to go to space last year. He didn't realize he'd be overwhelmed with sadness and go through "the strongest feelings of grief" that he'd ever experienced.

 
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The Ruiners, by Ellena Savage
https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/The-Ruiners/Ellena-Savage/9781761638817
 
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Terry Pratchett - Charlie's Diary
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/03/terry-pratchett.html
 
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Half the truth: defending public education requires more honesty, not less | Pearls and Irritations
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03/half-the-truth-defending-public-education-requires-more-honesty-not-less/

Criticism of public schools is not entirely wrong – but by ignoring unequal conditions, it misdiagnoses the problem and misplaces responsibility.

 
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Collections: Why Celebrimbor Fell but Boromir Conquered: the Moral Universe of Tolkien – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
https://acoup.blog/2025/04/18/collections-why-celebrimbor-fell-and-boromir-conquered-the-moral-universe-of-tolkien/

This week (and probably next) I want to talk a bit more Tolkien, but in a somewhat different vein from normal. Rather than discussing the historicity of Tolkien's world or adaptations of it, I want to take a moment to discuss some of the themes of Tolkien's work, which express themselves in the metaphysical architecture…

 
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How a Navy sailor snapped an iconic Artemis II astronaut photo
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/august-clawson-artemis-ii-photos/

The photographer who snapped the photos of the Artemis II crew’s return to Earth spent years honing his craft on a Navy aircraft carrier.

 
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One Situation After Another
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/world-monitor-situation-meme/686389/
 
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Blond Ambition – Bookforum Magazine
https://www.bookforum.com/print/3204/blond-ambition-62801
 
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The Operational Trap
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-operational-trap/

Like Imperial Japan before us, the United States has substituted tactical and operational planning for strategic thinking.

 
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Part One: Dr. Sleep: The Australian Psychiatrist Who Made People Sleep Themselves To Death
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-dr-sleep-the-australian-325386876/
 
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What is breastfeeding aversion and how can you manage it?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-15/what-is-breastfeeding-aversion-and-how-can-you-manage-it/106384652
 
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The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History
https://www.deadcarl.com/p/the-kaiser-and-a-mediocre-man-theory
 
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Part One: How L. Ron Hubbard Lied His Way to Godhood
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-how-l-ron-30040997/
 
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I was afraid to make a submission to the antisemitism royal commission. But silence has consequences too | George Newhouse | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/06/australia-antisemitism-royal-commission-submissions-racism-human-rights-ntwnfb

I work in a sector that speaks out on racism and human rights, yet on this issue I have felt the boundaries of acceptable speech narrow around me

 
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Why are there no fish in the deepest deep sea? | Deep Sea News
https://deepseanews.com/2015/08/why-are-there-no-fish-in-the-deepest-deep-sea/

Here’s a mystery: below 8,400 meters there are no fish. There are other creatures: sea cucumbers, anemones, tiny worms, but no one has ever seen a fish. At 8,370 meters? There are fish. But not below 8,400 meters. At its deepest the ocean reaches roughly 11,000 meters, so there is plenty of space. And right below 8,400

 
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Bit Rot Doesn't Always Increase Entropy – A Story from the Archives - Google Bug Hunters
https://bughunters.google.com/blog/bit-rot-doesnt-always-increase-entropy

This blog post takes us back to 2010, retracing and incident where a statistical anomaly led to the discovery of a subtle flaw in the way we were using a security-critical library.

 
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The NDIS’s original sin
https://insidestory.org.au/the-ndiss-original-sin/
 
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AI Isn't Management. Try Explaining That to Matthew Prince
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-management-try-explaining
 
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No, 1 in 6 People Do Not Have Long COVID
https://gidmk.substack.com/p/no-1-in-6-people-do-not-have-long
 
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Katherine Rundell · Consider the Greenland Shark
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n09/katherine-rundell/consider-the-greenland-shark

I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very...

 
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Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard, by Amy Remeikis
https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Where-It-All-Went-Wrong/Amy-Remeikis/9781761822117
 
australia books:rec history politics
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Good Bones | The Poetry Foundation
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bones
 
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You Probably Don't Need To Stress About Hantavirus
https://gidmk.substack.com/p/you-probably-dont-need-to-stress
 
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There are no psychopaths
https://aeon.co/essays/psychopathy-is-a-zombie-idea-why-does-it-cling-on
 
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