If you can read this, then you have something to be thankful for.
- The Thanksgiving —irradiated & freeze-dried— dinner at the ISS has the astronauts craving for a tupperware fulll of Grannie’s leftovers.
- Because you’re eventually gonna have to *ehem* discard the turkey, and there ain’t no 3 sea shells yet.
- Java-holic astronaut invents zero-g coffee cup. Doesn’t get points for ergonomics, that’s for sure.
- Space chess: a good distraction for astronauts and a wonderful teaching experience for grade schoolers. And the best hobby for a paranoid homicidal supercomputer.
- Early Star Wars storyboards. Because there is no phrase that raises more goosebumps in the skin of nerds than “A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away”.
- UFO on the moon in Apollo days? Be the decider.
- Is ET now bigger than Jesus in the UK? I wonder what would John say to that, considering the Vatican has just pardoned him for that 1966 wisecrack.
- With its strong hints of liquid water, Enceladus is looking more awesome—awesomer?—every year.
- At NASA, a pork barrel transforms into a Black Hole.
- Amateur astronomer sees the farthest from the back of his house: right to the dawn of the Universe.
- The free lunch that made the Cosmos… unless God comes out with the tab tomorrow.
- If I’m aware of the illusion of reality, does that mean that I’m awake, or that I’m imagining myself being awake? Or that the Universe is imagining myself imagining being awake of the illusion of reality? Wait a sec, my bong needs refilling…
- Pain is *partly* in your mind. So quit whinning, or start drinking.
- Darwinian Geology: Rocks evolve too, geologists claim.
- Long before Ali and Foreman, the greatest fight of all time was between David & Goliath. Now archeologists have found out where the semite ancester of Don King held the event.
- Clearly, the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse and the 7 plagues of Egypt belong to different books.
- Our oceans are in a desperate need of an Alka-Seltzer.
- Nobody loves eco-disasters more than Tinseltown… with the possible exception of Fox News.
- Model predicts halt to Africa’s AIDS epidemic.The model doesn’t predict where the money is going to come out from, though.
- DNA is for noobs! Designing the triple-helix molecule.
- Can the Internet save the peer review system?
- For all those Hogwarts dropouts out there: you can still enjoy a good match of quidditch.
Thanks to Greg, the original Pilgrim.
Quote of the Day:
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
Cicero
“Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs”.
Joseph Stalin
