Cue Mötley Crüe’s “Home Sweet Home”.
Using clues from star and sun positions mentioned by the ancient Greek poet Homer, scholars think they have determined the date when King Odysseus returned from the Trojan War and slaughtered a group of suitors who had been pressing his wife to marry one of them.
It was on April [...]
I don’t know precisely why, but this bummed me out:
The New York Aquarium is mourning the loss of a Pacific walrus named Ayveq. Ayveq was about 14. He died Sunday after a short illness.
Source: “Death of a Coney Walrus” from Gowanus Lounge
I almost went to the aquarium after watching the Mermaid Parade… but I [...]
Read the full post >>I know I can rest easy now… well, easier.
Our planet is not at risk from the world’s most powerful particle physics experiment, a report has concluded.
…Critics have previously raised concerns that the production of weird hypothetical particles called strangelets… could trigger the mass conversion of nuclei in ordinary atoms into more strange matter – transforming [...]
