Sunlight reflects off a methane lake on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Holy wow. The lake is called Kraken Mare, and it’s in Titan’s northern hemisphere, which began to come back into daylight in August after 15 years of night. (This pic was taken July 8 by the Cassini spacecraft.) All this according to NASA’s release [...]
Archive for December, 2009
First photo of liquid on another world
Posted in Cool science on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mahogany gameboard is a winner
Posted in Crafty on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I’m wrapping up my Christmas shopping for this year, I wanted to share a photo of a gift I made last year: an Othello game board for my Dad. Isn’t this a pretty piece of African mahogany? (It cost $8!) Dad taught me to play Othello when I was a little girl and I [...]
Snowstorm ’09 – Ice terror grips city!
Posted in Ramblings on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday had been widely touted as an opportunity for some snow, a rarity in our area. Journalists, of course, keep a wary eye on the weather, because the worse it gets, the more important it is that people know what the eff is going on. People come in early, stay late and all hands are [...]
Innately helpful humans? It’s to our advantage
Posted in Cool science, Ramblings on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday’s NYT had a very interesting story about biologists discovering evidence that humans are naturally helpful to each other — very young humans, before our parents presumably whap it into us. Of course if we didn’t cooperate to some degree we’d have croaked long ago… and if we weren’t kind of warlike, we wouldn’t have [...]
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