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At the end of last week a single dead swan was spotted floating close to the riverbank near Maliuc, on the middle branch of the Danube. An old woman gently held the swan's head and showed it to onlookers. The peasants here are greatly affected by the death of...
No wonder. The solar system most of us studied in school was a deceptively simple place. There were the sun, a few asteroids and comets and, as of 1930, when Clyde Tombaugh spotted Pluto on a telescopic photograph, nine planets. Memorizing those nine names has long been a childhood rite...
The roundness rule would add lots of planets to the solar system in one fell swoop: not just Sedna, Quaoar and 2003 UB313 but also two more icy worlds spotted by Brown and Trujillo--2004 DW, a little bigger than Quaoar, and 2003 EL61, probably about seven-tenths the size...
Street artists see their imagery as a counterforce to the ubiquitous world of outdoor advertising. But with its canny repetition of images, it's not so different. A handful of street artists has even parlayed the popularity of their images into design or merchandising businesses. Fifteen years ago, pioneer Shepard...
Maybe it's just the novelty of weaving around cars stuck in traffic jams, but the Parisian motorcycle taxi certainly seems to be the most fashionable way to commute around town these days. The two-wheeled wonders shave precious minutes from journey times, and at least four different companies (Citybird...