- Headline from the Register: “Hipster whines at tech mag for using his pic to imply hipsters look the same, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster”
- Random weirdness: liquid mercury found in ruins under Teotihuacan
- Not-the-onion: “A New Luxury Retreat Caters to Elderly Workers in Tech (Ages 30 and Up)”
- An interesting pic: the complete galactic plane!
- Walking underground in Paris
- Remembering one of the best books I’ve read (actually, listened to): Hyperion
- Squids as chamaeleons (no octopus story this month, so expanding the category to ‘stories about cephalopods’ instead 😐)
- An occasional reminder about the incrediblecoolness that is LIGO
- An asteroid that has moons of its own
- Something in the medical-curiosities genre (either fascinating or extremely gross) … I won’t even describe it, but you’ve been warned.
- Mountains deep inside the earth
- A galaxy without dark matter (sounds meh, except this means we can’t avoid the fact that every other galaxy does seem to havedark matter. Sigh)