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• What Sleep Debt Actually Does to Your Brain and Body
  Pulling an all-nighter feels like a neutral trade of time. The biology says otherwise: sleep loss costs attention, immune defence, metabolic regulation and memory consolidation — some of it at thresholds far lower than people believe. Here is what the research shows, at honest effect sizes.
• The Rules of Good Flag Design: Why the Best Flags Are Simple
  The flags you remember and can draw from memory are almost never the busiest ones. Vexillology — the study of flags — boils down to a handful of design rules, and they explain why some national emblems work and many others fail.
• Disappearing Content — Why the Internet Fell in Love With Posts That Expire
  The most successful social feature of the last decade was a post designed to die in 24 hours. Why ephemerality lowers the cost of sharing, what it does to memory, and why "permanent" was never actually free.
• Chernobyl, Forty Years On: What the Reactor Actually Did, and Why It Still Matters
  The 1986 accident is the most dramatised disaster in modern memory and the least mechanically understood. Here is what an RBMK reactor actually is, what went wrong on the night of April 26, what the exclusion zone proves about radiation ecology, and why the world's reactors are all different machines now.
• Apollo 11 by the Numbers: What It Actually Took to Reach the Moon
  Fifty-seven years on, the Apollo 11 story is usually told as destiny. The numbers tell a better story — of a computer with less memory than a car key, a landing with twenty-five seconds of fuel left, and 400,000 people doing the arithmetic that made one small step possible.