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October 11, 2012
this word is savory
The Wordnik Word of the Day for October 11, 2012 is
sapidity
http://www.wordnik.com/words/sapidity
(noun) Sapid character or property; the property of stimulating or pleasing the palate; tastefulness; savor; relish.
‘Sapidity’ comes from the Latin ‘sapere,’ to taste.
Example:
Together with salt it gives both the name and the relish to sallets from the sapidity which renders not plants and herbs only, but men themselves, and their conveRead More...
October 10, 2012
chew on this one for a bit
The Wordnik Word of the Day for October 10, 2012 is
poltophagy
http://www.wordnik.com/words/poltophagy
(noun) The practice of masticating food thoroughly, and not merely biting it into bits, before swallowing.
‘Poltophagy’ comes from the Greek ‘poltos,’ porridge, plus ‘phagein,’ to eat.
Example:
Reduced to its simplest terms poltophagy seems to be second cousin to vegetarianism, and will, no doubt, claim its adherents like eRead More...
October 8, 2012
PHONY PHOTOS
by Emily Temple
The Cottingley Fairies
But of course. In 1920, a series of photos, supposedly taken by two young girls while playing in the garden, proved that fairies existed. Or at least, several experts declared the photographs real, and die-hard spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle was on board. It wasn’t until the late 1970s (!) that the photRead More...
SpaceX Launches
SpaceX Launches to the International Space Station
Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida is illuminated by a Falcon 9 rocket as it lifts off at 8:35 p.m. EDT carrying a Dragon capsule to orbit. Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, built both the rocket and capsule for NASA's first Commercial Resupply Services, or CRS-1, mission to the InternationalRead More...
October 5, 2012
11 year old finds MAMMOTH!
That's right, an adventuresome 11 year old boy from Russia stumbled onto a well preserved mammoth that is about 30,000 years old.
Click here for the whole story and some more pictures.
In this handout photo provided by The International Mammoth Committee in Russia on Friday Oct. 5, 2012, the carcass of a 16-year-old mammoth that was possibly killed by humaRead More...
October 4, 2012
Such a large mirror - the MS would approve
Mirror Inspection
Technicians and scientists check out one of the Webb telescope's first two flight mirrors on Sept. 19, 2012 in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
The mirrors are going through receiving and inspection and will then be stored in the Goddard clean room until engineers are ready to assemble them onto the telescope's backplane structRead More...
October 3, 2012
New, Bizarre Species of Miniature Dinosaur Identified
By John Noble Wilford
Not every dinosaur grew up to be a mighty predator like Tyrannosaurus rex or a hulking vegan like Apatosaurus. A few stayed small, and some of the smallest dinosaurs that ever lived — tiny enough to nip at your heels — were among the first to spread across the planet more than 200 million years ago.
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October 2, 2012
A great place to hide the Secret Series ... if you have access
Agent SL sent in this picture of a great place to hide the Secret Series - in a vortex.
So all of you who have access to one of these portals, just tuck your Secret books in there.
aw, crape
The Wordnik Word of the Day for October 2, 2012 is
crapehanger
http://www.wordnik.com/words/crapehanger
(noun) A pessimist or doomsayer.
A ‘crapehanger’ was originally ‘a person who hung up crape as a sign of mourning.’ Also ‘crape-hanger.’
Example:
I hate to be a crapehanger but can’t you see that when a boy’s interest has cooled it is next to impossible to heat it up again.
--‘Bringing Back My Bonnie,&rsquRead More...
October 1, 2012
ANTARES
Antares Rolls Out
Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket rolls out to the launch pad at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the morning of Oct. 1, 2012. Over the next several months, Orbital plans a hot-fire test of the Antares first stage, the maiden flight of an Antares rocket, and a cargo delivery demonstration mission to the International Space Station as part of NASA&Read More...
