Another One

from The Daily Mail NASA detects asteroid that’s due to hit Earth’s atmosphere The asteroids are also called Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) because they come within 120 million miles of the sun A newly discovered asteroid is on a collision course for Earth and...

The Vera Rubin Risk

from The Atlantic When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk How do you know what you’re not allowed to see? By Ross Andersen Olivier Bonin / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory In the early months of 2023, the astronomer Željko Ivezić found himself taking part in...

Tootsies Rock!

from Real Clear History Tootsie Rolls: Wartime Snack By Lawrence C. Bostic I was emptying the remaining candy from our Halloween bowl a few days ago, intending to fill the community bowl at work with it. At the bottom of the bowl, there were quite a few Tootsie Rolls...

Trader Arts

from artnet Grocery Giant Trader Joe’s Hides Art in Its Aisles. This New Book Reveals Just Where to Look Julie Averbach spent four years visiting more than 150 Trader Joe’s stores and hunting down the retailer’s art-historical sources. by Min Chen Signs...

Deep Deep Thermal

from BBC The hunt for heat: Drilling the deepest holes on Earth by Norman Miller Tapping into the heat emitted by the Earth is relatively easy in places such as Iceland where it is close to the surface (Credit: Getty Images) Beneath our feet is an almost limitless...