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WELL-ARMORED METEOR: A failed Soviet Venus lander will fall back to Earth after being stranded for 53 years. Designed to survive a Venusian reentry, there’s a strong likelihood it will reach Earth’s surface largely intact between May 9-10.
THE PRECURSOR TO COACHELLA: Steve Wozniak (yes, that Steve Wozniak) staged the first Us Festival in 1982.
A COLLECTION OF SO-THAT’S-HOW-THAT-HAPPENEDs TO CLOSE OUT THE WEEKEND: How we got road stripes and drive-thru windows.
8 YEARS AGO TODAY: Chris Coghlan flew.
IT’S EVERYWHERE, AND YOU BARELY NOTICE IT: The hardest working font in Manhattan.
(It’s even trickling into this site…)
250 YEARS AGO THIS WEEKEND, THE EVENTS THAT LED TO A NATION: Yesterday’s date in 1775, Paul Revere makes his famous ride. The next day, the “Shot Heard Round the World”.
THEY’RE NOT SAYING IT’S ALIENS. BUT… Strongest Evidence of Alien Life Yet Found 124 Light-Years Away.
On Earth, the chemicals dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl disulfide are produced only by life, mostly microscopic marine algae called phytoplankton.
The researchers emphasised caution, saying that more observations were needed to confirm these findings, and that they were not announcing a definitive discovery.
But the implications could be huge, according to Nikku Madhusudhan, a Cambridge University astrophysicist and lead author of the study
FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS: Wink Martindale Dead: Host of ‘Tic-Tac-Dough’ and ‘Gambit’ Was 91. One of the legends of daytime TV game shows when I was growing up.
FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS: Dazed and Confused and Boston Public actor Nicky Katt dead at 54.
While it’s a situation I wish on no one and no family, the phrase I’ve heard used in connection to similar military passings seems to fit best: “lost the battle with his demons.”
I WENT TO A PROM AND A BASEBALL GAME BROKE OUT: Minor League team hosts prom during a game. “Why did the Winston-Salem Dash host an in-game high school prom? Because a pipe burst in Georgia. Welcome to the 2025 Minor League Baseball season.”
FAST LADY, LAP 2: Katherine Legge entering multiple Cup, Xfinity races in 2025.
A PIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION: Purple exists only in our brains.
It’s early April. How are your New Year’s resolutions going?
Odds are, most of them have been in the dust bin for 10+ weeks at this point.
Continue reading...IT’S VLADDY TIME: Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Blue Jays agree to extension: 14 years, $500 million.
Despite the outward assertions that he’d been letting his agent handle all that since Spring Training started, I bet this was still on his mind the last week and a half — he has yet to homer this season (10 games). Now that it’s done, what’s the odds he dingers over the Monster tonight vs. the Red Sox at Fenway?
HOW DID I MISS THIS? For the last 6 years, in what the BBC called “one of the most charming cases of nominative determinism ever”, the president of Nintendo of America has been a man named… Doug Bowser.
FRESH SET OF EYES: New NASA Space Telescope Unveils Its First-Ever Images. SPHEREx is the “Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer”.