Book World was the only reason I got the Sunday paper delivered!

Why the Moon’s Icy South Pole is a Hot Target for NASA NASA's Curious Universe · Episode

The Moon’s South Pole is a bizarre landscape. Mountain ridges glow in perpetual sunlight; deep craters freeze in billion-year-old shade. Yet hidden deep inside those shadowed craters, under temperatures three times colder than the frostiest day in Antarctica, lurks something familiar–water ice. 🧪

Avalanches, Icy Explosions, and Dunes: NASA Is Tracking New Year on Mars - NASA Instead of a winter wonderland, the Red Planet’s northern hemisphere goes through an active — even explosive — spring thaw.

(not real spiders. they're "scour marks that, from space, look like giant spider legs")
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Table of contents from a NASA article about Mars. The contents are: Frost avalanches, Gas geysers, Spiders, Powerful winds, and Wandering dunes

Wow, Mars has everything

Sun Series: Soaring Toward the Sun - NASA Nour Raouafi, project scientist for Parker Solar Probe, explains why the Sun's corona is the source of one of the biggest mysteries in all of space science.

This mission is helping us understand some of the Sun's biggest mysteries. We made an episode of NASA's podcast Curious Universe that explains how NASA and @jhuapl.bsky.social brought it to life after decades of dreaming
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe--the first-ever spacecraft to "touch" the Sun's atmosphere--made its closest approach of the Sun on Christmas Eve. And it phoned home to say it survived!

A quote from a Washington Post article: No other ape shares like we do. It’s anomalous in the natural world. But we do it every day. And whenever there’s a big moment to celebrate, we do it by sharing food. So Thanksgiving is, in my mind, the ultimate human-evolution holiday. You’ve got hunted meat. You’ve got gathered plant foods. You’ve got language happening. You’ve got tools. You share this bounty with your extended family and friends, your kin group. What other celebration puts human evolution on display like that? So, of course, we should be aware of the health aspects. But let’s not lose sight of the fact that, in humans, food is a social bond, and especially on Thanksgiving. Maybe give yourself one day to focus on that aspect and not worry too much about the calories. It’s okay, honestly, to just enjoy the pie

Happy Thanksgiving - aka "the strangest thing" humans do. Even metabolism experts say that counting calories can wait until tomorrow
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NASA Rocket Engine Fireplace - 8 Hours in 4K YouTube video by NASA

🎶 Deck the halls with rocket whooshing, fa la la la ... 🎶
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Rats revving the engine YouTube video by The Conversation

Beep beep! youtu.be/1by4qHbTZ74

Guest column | I taught rats to drive, but they taught me to enjoy the ride Unexpectedly, we found that the rats had an intense motivation for their driving training.

I'm becoming obsessed with these rats who learned how to drive
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How Open Science and AI Are Advancing Hurricane Research NASA's Curious Universe · Episode

Ever wonder how NOAA collects the critical data from inside hurricanes that makes accurate forecasting possible? I talked to their Hurricane Hunter pilots for this week's episode of NASA's Curious Universe. It's all your favorite government agencies in one podcast!