Rosetta's view from cruising altitude
Humanity’s second-ever comet landing happens today when the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft (technically, the Philae lander) touches down on the comet Churumov-Gerasimenko at 16:00 UTC, or 11 a.m. Eastern, 7 a.m. Pacific to you civilians. Tune in to the ESA website for live shots and people speaking in heavy accents.
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As a newspaper journalist, I wasn’t allowed to actively engage in politics, and I’m still working my way into it. I give trivial amounts to the Democratic Party, for which I in turn receive dozens of emails a day asking for additional trivial donations. I decided I’d volunteer a bit for the Udall campaign, first…
SpaceShipTwo wreckage, Oct. 31, 2014 (via BBC)
It's only been a couple of hours since Virgin Galactic lost its SpaceShipTwo spacecraft. The names of the pilots -- one dead, one clinging to life -- have yet to be released. I got the initial word via Twitter, a retweet of @spacecom via Alan Stern and some others. CNN,…
The jersey's orange and the shoes are black, unless you happen to be stoned.
Abigail Sullivan Moore's New York Times piece on a new study on the effects of marijuana and the developing brain is another arrow in the increasingly crammed quiver of evidence that weed and growing brains don't mix. This one shows that frequent…
The NYT blog "The Upshot" put together a story and a dynamic chart published Oct. 10 that encapsulates a ton more information than at first glance. Play with the variables and think about what it's really telling us.
The story, "Heavier Babies Do Better in School" by David Leonhardt and Amanda Cox, is about a neonatal…