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Amazing “@DavidGrann: Nasa telescope captures the moment a meteor crashes into the moon. Video: gu.com/p/3gvtp/tw v”
Meteor crashes into moon's surface causing flash - video
guardian.co.uk — A Nasa telescope captures the moment a 40kg (88lb) rock crashes into the moon's surface on Friday. The impact caused a flash 10 times brighter than any other Nasa has seen since it began monitoring the lunar surface eight years ago.
Kroger is turning "limp waffles, wilting flowers and plastic-wrapped steak" into electricity - buff.ly/13sNEz8
"In 1960, 25% of kids died before the age of 5. And now we're down below 6%..." - buff.ly/Z1gL0g
Dodos "Confidence." Good tune - buff.ly/19DsxgT
SoundCloud Mobile
soundcloud.com — From the upcoming album, Carrier, out 8/27/13. Pre-order CD / LP (180-gram blue vinyl) / cassette here: http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/carrier "Confidence" digital single out 5/21.
Fascinating post from @carlzimmer on the many different faces of BRCA, the "breast cancer gene" - buff.ly/12DSMRX
RT @jmooallem: Everything's bigger in Texas. Even the alligators. guns.com/2013/05/16/tee…
Teen Shoots Monster 800lbs Gator (PHOTOS)
guns.com — Talk about beginners luck, a Texas teen bagged his first alligator last week and it turns out it's the largest reptile ever caught in the state. The 18-year-old senior from Cinco Ranch High School shot and killed the 800-pound beast measuring 14-feet 3-inches in James E. Daughtrey Wildlife Management Area.
Before messing with the Teaparty, the IRS harrassed gay rights groups - buff.ly/12eAuX0 (via @MacMcClelland)
Washington Post
washingtonpost.com — Before there was the Tea Party, there was Big Mama Rag, Inc. It was a radical feminist collective in the 1970s, and it devoted itself to lectures, seminars, a free library, and publishing a newspaper to voice its ideas, namely the Big Mama Rag.
Starting @jonmooallem's book "wild ones": buff.ly/10u554o
Did you read his NYT mag piece on the seal murders? Amazing!
Our latest podcast contains steamy bedroom sounds - buff.ly/17zJdcw
The Septendecennial Sing-Along
radiolab.org — Every 17 years, a deafening sex orchestra hits the East Coast -- billions and billions of cicadas crawl out of the ground, sing their hearts out, then mate and die. In this short, Jad and Robert talk to a man who gets inside that noise to dissect its meaning and musical components.
The US military now has 10 different camouflage patterns. buff.ly/12E0KKT (via @EmilyAnthes)
U.S. military has 10 kinds of camouflage uniforms: Government duplication at its finest
washingtonpost.com — Today, there is one camouflage pattern just for Marines in the desert. There is another just for Navy personnel in the desert. The Army has its own " universal" camouflage pattern, which is designed to work anywhere. It also has another one just for Afghanistan, where the first one doesn't work.Sign up to discover more journalists who cover Science, Metro New York and more.
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