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Starship V3 lifts off: what this launch really says about the race for space

On May 22, 2026, SpaceX launched Starship V3, the most powerful rocket ever built. Behind the spectacle, three things were at stake at once: a race to land humans on the Moon before 2030, a stock market debut targeted for June 12 at a $1.75 trillion valuation, and the expansion of Starlink, the only division in the company already turning a profit.

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The New Space Economy: How Private Industry Rewrote the Rules of the Final Frontier

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For sixty years, space was a government monopoly. Then a handful of private companies cut the cost of reaching orbit by 95% in a decade. Who are these players, why are they betting billions on low Earth orbit, and what does that mean for everyone else on the ground?

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il tanker blocked in the Strait of Hormuz illustrating energy sovereignty and the economic case for the energy transition

The energy transition was never just about the climate. It’s about not being held hostage.

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The IMF just revised global growth downward because a single strait closed. That’s not a climate story. It’s a sovereignty story — and it’s exactly what the energy transition is really about.

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The Energy Transition

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Renewables are now the cheapest source of new electricity in most of the world. Yet fossil fuels still account for over 80% of global energy consumption. Understanding why the gap exists — and what it takes to close it — is the real foundation of the energy transition.

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Climate Change: Science & Projections

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The science is settled. The projections, however, are not — they span a wide range of scenarios depending on choices made in the next few decades. What the IPCC actually says, what SSP and RCP scenarios mean in practice, and where the real uncertainties lie.

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Artificial Intelligence: How It Works and Why It Matters

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Most people use AI tools daily without knowing what’s actually running underneath. Neural networks, large language models, training data, inference — the vocabulary is everywhere, the explanations almost nowhere. A clear, jargon-free breakdown of how modern AI actually works.

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