kateoplis: Huzzah for HubbleHappy 25th to the “most important…
Huzzah for Hubble
Happy 25th to the “most important advance in Astronomy since Galileo.”
In that time, the 44-foot camera has made more than 1.2 million observations of over 38,000 celestial objects.
With another 22 years in orbit before re-entering the atmosphere, its greatest discoveries might still be ahead.
Awesome.
salon: A Long Island man made headlines this week after he…
A Long Island man made headlines this week after he doused his rental car in rubbing alcohol and lit a cigarette — causing a massive fire and nearly killing himself in the process. He was trying to get rid of bedbugs. Or, as science writer Brooke Borel describes them, you bastards. And he’s in good company. As Borel describes in her fascinating new book, “Infested,“ reports abound of people setting fire to their apartments, of people accidentally poisoning themselves with chemicals and pesticides meant to be used outdoors, and all other disasters — going back millennia — borne of the infected’s desire to “kill them, and by whatever means possible.”
Author Brooke Borel tells Salon about the great, terrible bedbug resurgence
Lol, best name for bedbugs ever.
“It’s hard to escape the feeling that we are living a cli-fi novel’s Chapter One.”
“It’s hard to escape the feeling that we are living a cli-fi novel’s Chapter One.”
– Dana Goodyear on the California drought.
(via newyorker)
