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The Spacefaring Paradox – Slate
If the dream of space travel involves new horizons and feelings of unbound freedom—to explore, to discover, to spread humanity—a nightmare lurks, too.
If theres one collective lesson gleaned from the COVID pandemic so far, it may be the shared difficulty of being isolated in ones own homewhether alone or with family members or roommates. The stresses of quarantine included crushing mundane routines, personal habits hypostatized, and all too familiar views (stove range, bathroom mirror, that solitary tree outside, changing while nothing changed). As Amanda Mull wrote in the Atlantic, after working from home for a year, her wallpaper has begun to…
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