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Spacecraft Rosetta continues to circle and map Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Crossing the inner Solar System for ten years to reach the vicinity of the comet in 2014, the robotic spacecraft continues to image the unusual double-lobed comet nucleus. The featured image, taken one year ago, … Continue reading →

For Kids Only is leaving the Haight Ashbury after 30 years. Few other businesses reflect the changing demographics of this neighborhood as well as this one. I have dozens of boutiques, cafés, and clothing stores come and go over the … Continue reading →

On Saturday, 300 plumbers from unions across the country descended on Flint to install new faucets and water filters for free. Many Flint residents needed new faucets because their existing faucets were so old they could not accommodate water filters provided … Continue reading →

Interior Decoration A to Z, by Betty Pepis Betty Pepis was an interior designer who in the mid-twentieth century, sought to de-mystify the decorating process. During the course of her career, she wrote for and/or edited sections of the magazines McClure, Look, and House … Continue reading →

… to the place in Moscow so I think it should be called the Square Red Nebula. It is officially classified a Symmetric Bipolar Nebula which I am pretty sure has nothing to do with its emotional state. It should … Continue reading →

In a bizarre world where mad scientists insert genes into rodents to make them glow it is unfortunately necessary to add that parenthetical aside in the title. But just a few meters below the waves, marine biologist and explorer-photographer David … Continue reading →

The movie shows Ceres in enhanced color, which helps to highlight subtle differences in the appearance of surface materials. Scientists believe areas with shades of blue contain younger, fresher material, including flows, pits and cracks. The animated flight over Ceres … Continue reading →

Hideous that Denmark, the country in Europe that resisted the Nazis by having the entire population, including the royal family, wear yellow Stars of David during the occupation has now legalized the theft of refugees’ possessions as a way to dissuade … Continue reading →