Big Bucks Shrinking Butts

from The New York Times Hollywood’s Box Office Boom Comes With 248 Million Missing Tickets By Brooks Barnes and Christine Zhang Hollywood’s summer — by its accounting — was a triumph for the ages. Ticket revenue was not only the highest since 2013, but the second...

Live Tuna

from Futurism Scientists Find That 96 Percent of Delicious Tuna Is Infected With Parasitic Worms Did that just… move? By Joe Wilkins For seafood lovers, there are few things more appealing than a simple slab of raw tuna — a fish whose fatty, savory, and tender...

E.T. Detritus

from The New York Times Is There Alien Debris on the Moon? Some Scientists Plan to Find Out. Researchers want to explore the idea that microscopic particles shed by alien civilizations have accumulated on the lunar surface, making it an archive of extraterrestrial...

Mercury Nearing

from AP A pair of spacecraft draw closer to Mercury after nearly decade-long voyage BY  MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two Mercury-bound spacecraft left their mother ship behind on Thursday and headed down the home stretch of their nearly decade-long voyage...

ORGAN²/ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible)

from AP This organ will play one composition until 2640. It’s redefining how slowly music can be played BY  STEFANIE DAZIO AND DAVID KEYTON HALBERSTADT, Germany (AP) — A small organ in eastern Germany is the headliner of the world’s slowest concert. It has been...