The nucleus of Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 recently shattered into more than 33 pieces, the smallest of which beestimated at being the size of a house. The comet orbits the sun every 5.4 years and is expected to continue disintegrating, passing closet to Earth on the 7th of June. The Hubble Space Telescope captured images of the breakup which has been assembled into time-lapse video.
I just started watching Ze Frank’s daily news/humor show, er… The Show, last week and have slowly become addicted. Judging from today’s episode, and the number of references I’ve seen online over the weekend, it seems the rest of the internet has gotten addicted right a long with me. Go ahead, click the link. All the cool mice are doing it.
Photographer Rachel Papo presents Serial No. 3817131, a project showing Israeli female soldiers during their two-year mandatory military service.
If you’re a fan of Müller-Brockmann, or even if you’re not, check out Gary Butcher (of Fibre)’s excellent animated tribute to JMB’s characteristic style of graphic/exhibition design.
Beautiful maps of ancient North America depicting it’s geologic evolution. By North Arizona University Professor of Geology, Ron Blakey.
A shower head that turns water into a raining cloud of fog.
Whether you believe Al Gore invented the internet or not, I’m sure he’s got something interesting to say in the upcoming movie, An Inconvenient Truth, which surveys the state of global climate change.
In a medical first, working lab-grown transplant organs have been made from a patient’s own cells.
If you follow this site through your browser or newsreader, you may have noticed things slowing a bit recently. CN has never been a personal blog, nor will it become such, but if you’re interested, let me fill you in on what’s going on behind the scenes. This will be short and sweet, promise.