Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth. [alt text from NASA]

The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine

If these whales go extinct, we’ll know who to blame Just 51 of these whales are left on Earth. Trump officials may have just doomed them.

www.vox.com/climate/4844...

Surprised to learn that Japanese are so fond of surprises

Oh well, thought we were having a serious conversation about media & attention not a clickbait that makes it seem like I’m sneering at my own students

I mentioned a late faculty colleague who was cutting down on smoking & developed an internal timer when they needed to smoke, never compared this students but rather to the ways that media like other stimulants regulate our timing mechanisms. Again, anyway.

Btw & for the record if anyone cares, I never compared my students to “nicotine addicts,” I said our attention spans (all of ours) are determined by the media themselves, and if we’re consuming media in shorter sustained bursts then our foci conform to those durations and temporalities. Anyway.

Server in cafe showed me how to use empty shells of mussels as tong to eat remaining mussels stunned to learn technique so late in life but also that mussels provide custom tools for their own consumption, as if they purposefully evolved to be eaten with human hands

The petite victoire of being asked directions by random people in Paris

Struck for no apparent reason by the strangeness & versatility of the word “while,” and increasingly anxious by the need to distinguish “awhile” from “a while”; like “apart” and “ a part” (of, from), the irreducible madness of English agrammaticality

Rabbit - 100Words Fred hated the rabbit. Along the walkways of his garden, it laid out like a fashion model at a photoshoot.

My story “Rabbit” is up at @100wordstory.bsky.social today—big thanks to editor Michelle Ross for selecting it 🐰 #microfiction

100wordstory.org/rabbit/

Attended Avatar premier, amazing but still Papyrus

Baseball Furies

The Warriors of this era

Even after a dozen or so viewings, Train to Busan has to be one of the great films of this generation

The view from the International Space Station as an aurora meets the sunrise in space.

These are less interviews than autobiographies. I’ve been fortunate to speak with some of the artists I admire most. My conversation w Marcel Ophuls was transformative for me. I don’t have the transcripts but the Academy has all the video records. I keep detailed my own detailed notes.

Thank you Juhan. I’ve been working with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Visual History Project for the past decade. We record long format conversations that end only when the interviewee end it.

For over 10 hours across 2 beautiful days in 2017 I spoke with Marcel Ophuls, who told some of the most brilliant stories about his life and those that lived and died around him. I could produce an entire book consisting of nothing more than his own words from those two days.

Alcatraz is a beautiful prison but Shawshank State Penitentiary far more practical: only one person—baseball legend Bull Durham—has ever successfully escaped from there.

Aquaman is from a Foreign Land and although I’m against in principle tariffs on seafood, would totally support crippling tariffs on that entire franchise

My dream of pronouncing tariff like Omar Sharif one step closer to reality

Now Academy will have give award to best film from a Foreign Land, would that include Canada as well as Middle Earth?

Govt announcing tariffs on movies produced in foreign lands meaning I now have to go to Narnia to see Chronicles

Keep seeing TV ad claiming that AI will one day ensure that trains arrive where they are supposed to & wondering how bad are trains now?

Maybe utopia is human extinction

Among his many accomplishments, none greater than Top Secret!

And what kind of soulless loveless party censures Al Green?

New research reveals Josephine the Singer a transgender mouse