28aug2015

ever heard of nautilus?
http://news.discovery.com/animals/rare-nautilus-makes-first-appearance-in-30-years-photos-150827.htm

seen sunfish?
http://news.discovery.com/animals/giant-fish-sunbathes-to-warm-up-for-deep-dives-150209.htm

butterfly[s] in space?
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0827/Butterflies-in-space-Hubble-beams-back-specular-image-of-iridescent-wings

crisis
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2015/0826/Seeking-Refuge-Five-lessons-from-Europe-s-migration-crisis

self-healing material -- possible new armour?
http://fortune.com/2015/08/27/self-healing-material/

cause for concern?
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india/pakistan-outpacing-india-in-building-nuclear-bombs-could-soon-overtake-united-kingdom-china-and-france-1053535.html

16oct2014

one word, remarkable!

300 million miles from home!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11165728/Probe-sends-back-space-selfie-as-landing-craft-prepares-for-historic-comet-touchdown.html

redQueen evolutionay digital arms race.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/11/the-adultery-arms-race/380794/?single_page=true&google_editors_picks=true

15sep2014

20 year old quasar puzzle solved?!
http://news.discovery.com/space/galaxies/quasar-diversity-mystery-solved-140912.htm

world's richest ever doctor wants to be remembered for something else
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2014/09/10/medicines-manhattan-project-can-the-worlds-richest-doctor-fix-health-care/

27jun2014

interesting reads on cosmos and another on intimacy

21feb2014

oldest celestial object currently known
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/ancient-galaxy-abell2744y1/

opinion
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/19/divorced-from-my-husband-and-my-faith/

24nov2013

surreal, but 100% real. i can feel the reality in those words, situations. the article strikes a chord in me, i yearn for the real. i think there's beauty, grace, charm in the real.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-tirado/why-poor-peoples-bad-decisions-make-perfect-sense_b_4326233.html

from an evolutionary psychology and/or evolutionary biology point of view, it totally makes sense

now, for something more pictorial
1. a new picture i discovered to visualize "massive"
http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/er-wang-dong-massive-cave.jpg
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/er-wang-dong-cave-system

2. here's one for the word "mindblowing"
http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/hubble-image-5.jpg
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/hubble-telescope-photographs/hubble-image-5

12may2010

fundamental constants, like "fine structure constant" changing over time? http://news.discovery.com/space/our-weird-universe-not-as-constant-as-we-thought.html