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Astronomy
NASA Wants Your Haikus
On November 13, 2013, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN mission will blast off for the upper atmosphere of Mars. Once there, it’ll make measurements of the atmosphere and ionosphere that will help scientists find clues about the Red Planet’s climatological history. To help spur public support and interest for the mission, the University of Colorado at Boulde... »
Musicians! In! Spaaaaaaace!
Once, to dream of going to space meant getting a PhD in science and training your body and your mind for years before even getting on the radar of someone at NASA. But no longer is outer space reserved for astronauts. Space travel is getting awful cheap (if by “cheap” you mean the price of a private jet or a loft in Tribeca), and little by little, scientists are being joined by run-of-... »
Lab Track: Nine Million Bicycles
Today’s Lab Track requires a bit of explanation. Back in 2005, British singer Katie Melua had a track on the radio entitled “Nine Million Bicycles.” In it, she mentions various facts about the world (for example, there are nine million bicycles in Beijing, there are six billion people in the world [this was 2005, folks, cool your jets]), then uses a bit of poetic finagling to con... »
Vostok Fuel: a Cocktail for Yuri’s Night
Tomorrow, April 12th, we celebrate Yuri’s Night, the anniversary of the first manned spaceflight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961. More than 300 parties are taking place in over 50 countries (find one near you here!), and all of those revelers are going to need something to drink. Time to invent a cocktail! I decided to do a take on the Moscow Mule, a refreshing classic that combine... »
Cooking with Puppets
If you wish to create an apple pie from scratch. First you must watch this cooking show. There are more than a couple names you might recognize in those credits. And now for something completely related: MAL Exclusive bonus footage! It’s a little known fact that Bigfoot is so hard to track down because she’s always making art. The sort-of-long and not-all-that-sordid tale of “Coo... »
Random Acts of Art: 3.24 Astronomy is Beautiful
Rumor has it, a whole lot of funding is going to disappear this coming week as NASA feels the effects of huge budget cuts due to sequestration. Hardest hit will be programs designed for outreach and public science communication. It may be up to us, as artists and civilians, to lend a hand and help find private funding and to disseminate the information discovered by scientists in the field of astr... »
Bad Moon Rising
It was the night of February 27th, 2013. Rob and I were driving down a stretch of dark highway when it happened. As we crested a hill something strange appeared at the horizon: an orange, glowing, ovoid object slowly rising from the earth like a distant bubble of blooming magma – fiery and ominous. After the initial surprise of the unsettling sight I quickly realized that it was just the moon. But... »
