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22nd May 2013
Reblogged From sagansense
Notes: 150
A peek behind the scenes at Radiolab.
If you’ve been thinking about donating to the show, now is a great time to do it: we have a matching grant, which means, basically, your donation counts for twice as many bucks. Here’s where you can donate and make us very happy radio producers.
May 20, 1990: Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson’s remarkable Kenyon College commencement address on creative integrity.
Kinsol Trestle, Vancouver Island, Canada
photo via jen
This is lovely – Diego Stocco makes music from leaves and a turntable.
Explosion on the Moon!
Pock-marked with craters and splotched with long-cold beds of dark lava, our moon holds thousands of footprints from its violent past. But we don’t really think of it having a violent present.
Well, it still gets its fair share of action. On March 17, 2013, NASA astronomers captured video of a meteorite striking the moon. It made an explosion bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, like a temporary star drawn on the lunar surface. It turns out that these collisions are not that rare.
Most of the moon’s many meteor marks date from a period known as the Late Heavy Bombardment. That, combined with a magma-riffic adolescence gave the moon the special look we know today. Of course, none of that is as violent as the moon’s birth.
Anyway, make sure to watch that video above and see the meteor strike live. You’ll never look at the moon the same way again.
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