A Biologist Is Writing a Wikipedia Article About a Woman Scientist For Every Harassing Email She GetsYou probably won’t be shocked to read that she has written a whole bunch. Emily Temple-Wood is an undergrad at Loyola University who will be heading to medical school in the fall. Online harassment wasn’t her original impetus when she began ( Read more... )

NASA has released a free e-book titled "Earth As Art". It's full of stunning photographs and fascinating information, download the .pdf here: http://1.usa.gov/TSIGYL

PS: I have no idea what to tag this with aside from NASA.  Halp with tags, please?

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) in Paris - the grand arbiters of time on our big blue marble - has declared that a leap second will be introduced on 30 June, 2012.

So what on Earth is a leap second?

We used to use the Earth’s dutiful rotation as a way of measuring time. It pirouettes on its axis once every 24 ( Read more... )