Spatial Coordinates
Whether tumbling through space, traversing the Martian landscape, careening along a track, or falling into history, we’re constantly moving from one place to another.
Gizmodo
Hubble Finds Unidentified Object Space, Scientists Puzzled: So you’re Hubble, a bit past your prime but still working hard, when one day something appears in your sites acting differently from anything you’ve ever seen before. And you’ve seen a lot in your illustrious career. You keep a close eye on this thing, when 100 days later, it disappears. What the heck?
Slate
Driving That Train: How Does a Locomotive Engineer Get His License?: In the wake of the deadly passenger/freight train collision last Friday, investigations will focus on qualifications of locomotive engineers.
NASA
Spiky Probe on NASA Mars Lander Raises Vapor Quandary: So, you’re Phoenix, the new kid on the Martian block, and you’re trying your darndest to get every measurement just right. The public wants you to find water. So, you go where you sense moisture in the atmosphere. You’re excited, but when you stick your probe in the dirt, it comes up dry. Completely dry. What gives?
Spectator
Our times: When we lost our mojo: A. N. Wilson thinks the second (current) Elizabethan period is when Britain lost its mojo: “We gained material comfort but lost our identity as a nation.” “There is no longer,” Wilson claims, “a Britain about which you can meaningfully say anything much at all.”
