why journalists deserve low pay »
(though i wonder how much the writer of this article got)
wikipedia's list of ig nobel prize winners »
prize for physics in 2001? david schmidt, for his partial explanation of the shower-curtain effect: a shower curtain tends to billow inwards while a shower is being taken.
time-lapse video of the state of rondônia in brazil, clearing almost 35% of the amazon. more scary videos like these here.
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shadow of mimas on saturn (under the dark band, slightly off-center). more awesome astronomy geekery over at tom’s.
