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

Here’s the third bizarre occurrence that greeted me on my return home: ants. I found a line of them marching across the countertop in the kitchen. I tried desperately to trace where they were coming from —  [more...]

“The President has achieved a run of ambitious legislative, social, and foreign-policy successes that relieved a large measure of the human suffering and national shame inflicted by the Bush Administration. Obama  [more...]