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Ideas Society

The Words “Failure” And “Success” Are Slowly Destroying Modern Life

Photo of trophy cups on a table
A row of trophy cups aligned on a table XavierPraillet/Unsplash

Modern times and capitalism have given the words failure and success an emotive charge and excessively personal connotations, turning mechanical, humdrum notions into engines of angst.

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Society

Never Quit On A Bad Day

​The author and his child, Lorenzo, walking down a path together.
The author and his child, Lorenzo, walking down a path together. Ignacio Pereyra

My eldest told me he wanted to quit going to football training. “When something feels hard, the mind and body resist because they seek comfort”.

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Future

Mars And Back: Is NASA’s Groundbreaking Research Mission Really About Money And Politics?

NASA's Mars 2020 rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions to retrieve, as seen in this illustration.
NASA's Mars 2020 rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions to retrieve, as seen in this illustration. NASA/JPL-Caltech

An endeavor to retrieve samples from the red planet is in the works. Some scientists wonder if it’s a wise investment.

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