Daily Archives: Mar 17, 2026

Interstellar objects arrive without reservation, crossing instrument fields of view that were designed for planets, moons, and the near sky. When comet 3I/ATLAS moved through a geometry that placed it near the Sun from Earth’s line of sight, a narrow observational window opened elsewhere: Mars. In early October 2025, three...

The AR-15 may be the most argued-over object in American gun culture, and not because it is difficult to understand. The confusion tends to come from a handful of sticky misconceptions that blur together branding, mechanics, and legal categories. Clearing those up requires less rhetoric and more attention to how...

There is no piece of equipment within the history of the U.S. Army that is so heavyweight on an institutional scale as the sidearm. Pistols and revolvers do not often characterize a campaign itself, but they are habitual characterizations of confidence, particularly in those kinds of troops in which...