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Image Credit & Copyright: André van der Hoeven (via Astronomy Picture of the Day) Featured below is a meteor caught exploding two weeks ago above Austria next to the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy.  Tonight the Perseid Meteor Shower reaches its maximum. Grains of icy rock will streak across the … Continue reading →

This amazing photograph of a Cambodian garbage scavenger by Malaysian Yap Kh is tragic and yet beautiful in its poignancy. Amid the haze of toxic fumes from burning garbage, in an atmosphere filled with the overpowering stench of rotting waste and surrounded … Continue reading →

A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. The series of test images shows the fully illuminated … Continue reading →

This styrofoam hammer will soon be replacing the old 2D hammer on the sidewalk sign for Roberts Hardware.

German and British scientists have discovered a fossilized ancestor of modern snakes that still has its four legs. The snake, named Tetrapodophis amplectus, lived during the Early Cretaceous, around 110 million years ago. At the time, South America was united with … Continue reading →

If you had tuned into BBC Radio One on May 20, 1979 you would have heard David Bowie DJ his own two hour show, “Star Special,” playing his favorite records and jovially chatting up his audience. Track listing The Doors, … Continue reading →

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News and photo via Hoodline Bob Smith, the Robert in Roberts Hardware [family lore is that his immigrant German father didn’t know or understand English possessive grammar and hence there is no apostrophe] ran the family-owned Haight Street hardware store from 1960 until … Continue reading →