The nucleus of Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 recently shattered into more than 33 pieces, the smallest of which beestimated at being the size of a house. The comet orbits the sun every 5.4 years and is expected to continue disintegrating, passing closet to Earth on the 7th of June. The Hubble Space Telescope captured images of the breakup which has been assembled into time-lapse video.
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The Show with Ze Frank
I just started watching Ze Frank’s daily news/humor show, er… The Show, last week and have slowly become addicted. Judging from today’s episode, and the number of references I’ve seen online over the weekend, it seems the rest of the internet has gotten addicted right a long with me. Go ahead, click the link. All the cool mice are doing it.
Rachel Papo: Serial No. 3817131
Photographer Rachel Papo presents Serial No. 3817131, a project showing Israeli female soldiers during their two-year mandatory military service.
Josef Müller-Brockmann Tribute
If you’re a fan of Müller-Brockmann, or even if you’re not, check out Gary Butcher (of Fibre)’s excellent animated tribute to JMB’s characteristic style of graphic/exhibition design.
North America’s Evolution
Beautiful maps of ancient North America depicting it’s geologic evolution. By North Arizona University Professor of Geology, Ron Blakey.
Cloud Shower (or Heavenly Rain)
A shower head that turns water into a raining cloud of fog.
An Inconvenient Truth
Whether you believe Al Gore invented the internet or not, I’m sure he’s got something interesting to say in the upcoming movie, An Inconvenient Truth, which surveys the state of global climate change.
First Synthetic Organ Implanted
In a medical first, working lab-grown transplant organs have been made from a patient’s own cells.
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