Was considering Mexican places for lunch today. Discovered that Margaritas on Crenshaw wouldn't open until 2pm. [Ended up at the El Cholo on Western ( Read more... )

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Our latest spy satellite.

Click his cutesy-poo face to learn more.


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Google & TIME paired up to process and display Landsat satellite imagery over a few decades.

Over the entire earth.

It's pretty awesome.

After they show a few canned timelapses, hit Explore the World and put in your hometown. Or watch the Aral Sea vanish.

The Bad Astronomer tipped me off that a comet may smash into Mars next year (but probably won't ( Read more... )

Via Bad Astronomy: Senator Marco Rubio takes a swing and a miss on a reasonably easy question in a GQ interview:

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Nice story of the 'Where are they now?' variety about the Voyager spacecraft. One detail caught my eye: "Each also has an eight-track tape recorder."


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Endeavour will take a trip from LAX to the California Science Center next fall, and the route is being planned ( Read more... )

I was gonna post something stirring and informative about the 50th anniversary of Sputnik's launch, but I've been deluged by same, so there's no point. Instead, here's a picture of a bunny with a waffle on its head:

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