Please pass this article along to any vets you know. It’s infuriating that the privatizers in the Republican party and its supporters (Spit! Kochs!) want to undermine one of the best health systems in this country and they want to do so in the name of their putrid ideology. They may try to dress up …
I’m not entirely sure that’s what photographer Michael Shainblum calls his work, but after seeing this picture at Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy blog at Slate, he should. My goodness. Go look and read.
I don’t know how pleasant it is to fly Alaska Airlines under normal circumstances, but it certainly accommodated its passengers on Tuesday. It rescheduled a flight, postponing its takeoff 25 minutes just to ensure that all the passengers on that flight would be able to see the total solar eclipse which took place over the …
The Attorney General of the State of Michigan has just appointed a former FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Detroit office to investigate the Flint water fiasco. As far as I know, Andy Arena is a good and honest man with no connections to the Governor, the Emergency Managers who decided to switch Flint’s …
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I have been reading this story with shock tempered by schadenfreude. If ever a Governor deserved the kicks Rick Snyder of Michigan is getting right now it’s him, unless it’s his neighbor Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Look at the circumstances. Flint is a city in distress, with its industry gone and its tax base diminishing …
The very thought of a Rupert Murdoch-owned company buying 73% of National Geographic makes my blood run cold. Then I read the news more closely, and I learn that what’s happening is that the media brands are being folded into something called National Geographic Partners, which will include National Geographic’s domestic and international channels, National …
I went to the neighborhood barber shop this afternoon. There I saw a motorcyclist getting a foot of hair cut off (literally; the barber gave it to him to put into a plastic bag, presumably for Locks of Love or some similar charity). He then put on his leather jacket to cover up this t-shirt: …
Life on #67P is good, @ESA_Rosetta. About 3 hrs sunlight a day & feeling energised! More from my team #lifeonacomet https://t.co/ze2aYzBdC3 — Philae Lander (@Philae2014) June 15, 2015
Holy flyin’ toasters, the European Space Agency’s Philae has awakened from its seven-month sleep on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Even better, it’s sending telemetry data back to Earth! When we last heard from Philae the lander’s batteries had given out and it was shutting down in November, 2014. Its landing was not in a nice smooth sunlit …
Ah, those archeologists! They’ve discovered an ancient gold route between Southwest Britain and Ireland. They were measuring the chemical composition of some early Irish gold artifacts and learned that the gold actually originated in Cornwall, that piece of land at the southwestern tip of England. It’s famous for its mining, so I am not surprised …