The four crew members in NASA’s simulated Mars mission have spent the past year living and working in isolation in a confined habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. For the past 365 days, the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) Mission 2 crew members have operated as though they were on the
For decades, scientists have tried to understand what separates people capable of extraordinary endurance from everyone else. Is it genetics? VO₂ max? Pain tolerance? Mental toughness? Dean Karnazes has spent more than 30 years giving them a remarkable case study. He’s run 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 consecutive days, crossed Death Valley in
I always thought I’d be settled somewhere for good by age 55, with a comfortable home, established garden, and chest freezer in the garage. But after growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, raising my kids in Seattle, and becoming an empty nester, I realized I had no idea where I wanted to settle
A horror story in eight words: Private equity just invested in my favorite BLANK. “PE ruins everything” is a well-worn trope, but it’s not unearned. Private-equity investors have a history of stripping companies for parts and saddling them with debt, leaving customers wondering what happened to the product they once loved. So it wasn’t surprising
Nathan Fielder’s nearly three-hour documentary about disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes is running up numbers at the box office. The film, “You Can See Everything,” grossed $15 million in the US and Canada during its opening weekend, according to A24, the film’s distributor. That’s the best opening weekend for a documentary this year. “Melania” had the
Last week, a friend asked if I knew of any jobs for her recent graduate. Between his rigorous academic load, sports, and club activities that landed him in a prestigious university, he’d never held a job. “My fail,” she confessed. My kids have had jobs, but I have parenting fails of my own. I’m concerned
