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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
Odin, a small unmanned spacecraft, took off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida early on February 27, 2025. NASA was not involved in the mission. There was no live broadcast with a countdown clock on every television network, and there were no throngs of…
A family was having dinner in the San Fernando Valley on an August evening in 2020 when their lights went out. There isn’t a storm outside. The street is free of downed wires. The grid operator in California made the slow, deliberate decision to cut power to over 800,000 homes…
In the spring of 2019, Jeff Bezos made what appeared to be a fairly typical billionaire-in-space announcement while standing in front of a model of a moon lander at a media event in Washington. A lunar lander was being constructed by Blue Origin. It would transport goods. People, eventually. In…