Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin was the first person to go to space. What this article presupposes is…maybe he wasn’t? It all boils down to what your definition of space is.
Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin was the first person to go to space. What this article presupposes is…maybe he wasn’t? It all boils down to what your definition of space is.

American Express and Blackbird cut ties with restaurant after René Redzepi accused of abusing his staff
After allegations emerged this week that René Redzepi had abused his staff at Noma, once considered the world’s best restaurant, sponsors on Tuesday announced they would end their support for the chef’s upcoming events in Los Angeles.
The New York Times reported that American Express and the hospitality company Blackbird have cut ties with Noma ahead of the Copenhagen restaurant’s four-month pop-up in LA, which was set to kick off this week.
Continue reading...Tehran has enough material to make at least 10 nuclear warheads but extracting it would be very risky, say experts
The Trump administration is reportedly considering the deployment of special forces into Iran to secure its stockpile of highly enriched uranium (HEU), which experts say could be used to make at least 10 nuclear warheads.
Preventing Iran from acquiring a bomb is one of Trump’s stated war aims, and the 440kg HEU stockpile represents the greatest nuclear threat as it could be turned into weapons-grade uranium relatively easily. The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has told Congress that “people are going to have to go and get it”.
Continue reading...WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse regering heeft Israël gevraagd geen verdere aanvallen uit te voeren op Iraanse energie-infrastructuur, daarbij vooral doelend op de oliesector. Dat zeggen drie bronnen tegen de Amerikaanse nieuwssite Axios.
De VS zouden meerdere redenen hebben voor dat verzoek. De regering-Trump wil volgens een ingewijde na de oorlog samenwerken met de Iraanse oliesector, zoals in Venezuela. Ook wordt gevreesd voor Iraanse vergeldingsacties tegen vergelijkbare infrastructuur in de Golf. Daarnaast kunnen aanvallen op de Iraanse energiesector ook negatieve gevolgen hebben voor Iraanse burgers die tegen het regime zijn.
Het Amerikaanse verzoek zou op hoog politiek niveau zijn doorgegeven en zijn gecommuniceerd naar de Israëlische topmilitair Eyal Zamir. Het zou de eerste keer zijn dat de VS proberen Israël te beperken sinds de landen hun gezamenlijke oorlog tegen Iran begonnen. De Israëlische en Amerikaanse autoriteiten wilden het bericht niet bevestigen.

Colorful feathers found in an ancient tomb on Peru’s coast once belonged to parrots captured deep in the Amazon rainforest, reports a study published on Tuesday in Nature Communications. The discovery provides direct evidence of long-distance trade networks that flourished across the Andes centuries before the expansion of the Inca Empire in 1470, proving that these cultures developed sophisticated economic systems capable of transporting live tropical birds across treacherous environments.
The biggest generator of AI slop on the internet has a new home, as Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook and hired the team behind the social network for AI agents.…