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This week, we have two stories of time machines and space stations, but mostly of people who clean up messes. Amber Sparks’s second collection of short stories, The Unfinished World, published on Monday by Liveright, is a vivid and imaginative blend of sci-fi and fantasy, magical realism and surrealism.
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Reddit users can report harassment. Will it help?
The New York Times and Buzzfeed published directly to Facebook, just like your mom.
...moreThe science of being twitterpated.
iPads can’t fix everything.
Need to police the police? There’s an app for that.
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Actually, according to this Atlantic blog post, in space, you can’t really cry at all.
...moreAstronauts can, certainly, tear up—they’re human, after all. But in zero gravity, the tears themselves can’t flow downward in the way they do on Earth.
Department of The Japanese are Better Than Us: polar bear clouds!
Also on the Asian whimsy front, in Thailand you can have food served to you by a samurai robot.
Gerry Canavan has kindly pointed us towards a rad MeFi post on the about to launch new spaceplane!
...moreClothing for the discerning clergyman.
Sometimes people are really into typefaces but also have too much free time; those people do things like this.
Hella sweet pictures of astronauts and such (warning: french text).
The BBC is going to talk to you about plankton for a little while.
...moreToday’s theme is things that are good.
These appeal to me on at least three levels: 1980’s subway photography.
“The primary goal is to change the attitude towards living on a houseboat.”
Seed Magazine on the relationship between Science Fiction and Science.
...moreI just finished this really interesting article on bionics at National Geographic, but for some reason, the link has gone wonky on me. Head over to the main page and find it–it’s worth the read.
Noctilucent clouds are appearing more often, and does anyone want to guess why?
...moreImportant science news: the universe is delicious!
Need a good hideout? Al Capone’s is for sale.
The American Girl homeless doll is surprisingly expensive. Or maybe not surprisingly, I don’t even know anymore.
On the distance between McDonald’s.
...moreSpace photography gets me every time. Maybe it’s because for the last six years I’ve lived in places where I’m lucky if I see a handful of stars because of all the light pollution, or maybe it’s all the Star Trek I’ve watched over the years, I don’t know, but photos of nebulas and sunspots just do it for me.
...more“I mean, when you’re forced to smuggle, by sheer necessity of survival, due to forces completely outside of your own control, when the power to decide your own destiny has been taken from you (as a nation), can it really be called smuggling anymore?
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