It's a truly depressing day, waiting to see what will be the whims of a mad king whom we failed to stop in time. What would it be like to be in Iran now?

Erika Solomon and Sanam Mahoozi of the New York Times give a taste of it. I'll just quote:

With President Trump’s deadline to unleash mass destruction on Iran just hours away on Tuesday, Iranians faced the threats with a mix of indifference, defiance and bewilderment.

"The first thing that came to my mind is that I think Trump is under a lot of pressure, and that he has lost his mind,” said Lili, who works in the arts scene in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Lili said she and her family had made no contingency plans at all, and they were not planning to flee Tehran. They were not stocking up on goods, or bracing to hole up at home. “We need to continue with our lives,” she said, adding there was no clear haven to flee to: Attacking infrastructure meant almost anywhere could become a target.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/world/middleeast/iran-shock-defiance-trump-deadline-threat.html

History doesn't always mean the distant past. The woman who discovered what the universe is made of could have seen Star Wars.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-astronomer-who-discovered-what-the-universe-was-made-of