
Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 18 hours ago
Last fall I visited the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, where I stumbled across two fishbowls brimming with gallstones. They were donated, according to the placard, by a pathologist named Dr. S. Robert Freedman. Why, I wondered in an earlier post, would Dr. Freedman keep so very many stones? I couldn't ask him — […] The post The Stone Collector appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Financial Times - 1 day 21 hours ago
Politicians aren't the best judges of the merits of scientific research...

Australian Geographic - 1 day 22 hours ago
In 1804 Australia had its first uprising the Castle Hill Rebellion. The post Defining Moments in Australian History: The Castle Hill Rebellion appeared first on Australian Geographic .

GeekSpin - 2 days 2 hours ago
A defunct NASA spacecraft weighing about 1,300 pounds is expected to make a dramatic return to Earth today, bringing an end to a mission that began more than a decade ago. The satellite has spent nearly 14 years orbiting the planet and is now set to plunge back through the atmosphere. While most of it […] Read the original article here: A 1300-pound NASA satellite is falling to Earth today...