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Wow! Interstellar Traveler, Comet 2i Borisov.
This story has it all, if you like outer space: galaxies, other worlds, interstellar travel (between stars, over millions of years!), exploration, discovery, it's all here. Only the second known comet to travel to our solar system from elsewhere in the Milky Way. How DO they study comets? WHO studies comets? How do the coordinate …
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Bei Bei, Giant Pandas, Diplomacy, and Mother Earth
I heard this piece recently on the radio driving to work. If you like animals and conservation, then this one is right up your ally: it's about the lengths we humans have gone in effort to save the Giant Panda from extinction. Bei Bei is the name of a panda cub born in 2015 to …
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Take a Sniff, Learn a Little, Learn a Little More
This and that, a lot things you maybe didn't know about your nose and sense of smell, tidbits that might make you appreciate your schnoz a little more. Olfactory? GOOD. one.npr.org/i/780416661:783343744
Be Thankful
Here’s what came to mind yesterday: “Easy to be thankful when things are going well; here’s to being thankful when things don’t go as planned, when things go sideways. Find the lesson, make the best of it, and go forward. Be thankful.” That sums it up, really. At least for me. It's proven itself over …
Take a listen: Pain Management, Hospice Africa, Worth Your Time
Consider people in constant pain. Perhaps from a chronic disease; maybe even a terminal disease. Consider the decision patients have to make transitioning from Curative Care to Palliative Care: not trying to cure a condition, but rather manage the pain and suffering. Then consider not having the medicine to cope with the suffering. Here's one …
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World Toilet Day, A Week Ago
I've been thinking about this World Toilet Day thing...both while sitting there, and otherwise... it's celebrated every 19 November... and thinking about this short podcast from last week, on the topic therein... it comes to mind, rather than the angle the podcast took, I thought it was going to be different... I thought they were …
Salad and Spreadsheets
What did I wake up to yesterday? Salad and spreadsheets on my mind, and thus the day began. And a pork chop, couldn’t forget the pork chop I was to make that evening. My mind was clicking from the moment I woke up. Lots to do, lots to do. And? The salad turned out to …
Gettaway
Lucky for the little things. Lucky to be married to a great human, smart and patient and beautiful and thoughtful. Eleven years married, a mark we just passed. And so we’ve got a little gettaway planned. Nothing fancy, but it happens to be my favorite format: short escape to a place not far away, but …
Friday Light
This day feels light. Fridays often do. Weird really, it’s just another day. But it feels lighter some how, more relaxed, more at ease. The routine much the same, still plenty to do. A busy day on the calendar, and still somehow not the same. So I’ll leave it right there, rather than drilling on …
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