NASA calls this newly released photo of Mars “the next best thing to being there” [Space]

I don’t know why I was so worried about turning 39 — for my birthday, I got a box of chocolates, and now my face has broken out and instead of looking 39, I look like a 16 year old getting ready for the prom.

We are living in a new dark age.

Perhaps the single most important experience that shaped his life was the wartime effort to rescue his boyfriend. Beck donned a Hitler Youth uniform and entered a deportation center to free his Jewish lover Manfred  [more...]