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Oh Em Gee. They officially released the first chapter of Ghost Story. And I read it, because I'm a sucker for spoilers, of which there aren't that many here, but I mean, really. I couldn't just let this slide. And now I NEED this book even more, and July 26th couldn't come sooner.
Earlier this year the scientists of NASA's Kepler mission announced that their planet-hunting space telescope had identified more than 1,200 possible exoplanets (worlds orbiting stars other than our own sun) in its first few months on the job.
The potential planets Kepler has located range from worlds a bit smaller than Earth all the way up to giants several times the size of Jupiter. Similarly, some of the host stars are several times as large as the sun whereas some are much smaller....
Sort of a poorly-written article, but the idea is something we should look into here in the US. America likes everything on a shelf to look the same, likes all our money to look the same, likes all its people to look the same, but that means no one can tell one thing from another. We need better food-labeling, that's already been established. Advertising gets to determine how healthy something seems, or gets to override health issues by making something look so cool that no one cares if it'll kill you. But food is a basic need, and its health and therefore our health should be the driving factor.
So why no color-code the food labels? The rising obesity levels in this country are always all over the news, there's several shows about ridiculously fat people around, but nothing has really changed about marketing the food and presenting it. Hopefully, if someone could get the point across that some food is just not good for you, demand would force manufacturers to do better.*
*...she said, knowing full well that the health of the people on the other end of manufacturing is very rarely the point of the business...
Golden years ... David Bowie in 1976. Photograph: Steve Schapiro/Corbis
David Bowie is reissuing a 1975 single as an iPhone app. Almost four decades after Golden Years was released, the singer's remastered classic will be available for fans to remix via dedicated, handheld software.
In In 2007, Tama (yes, a cat) was named Kishi's new station master - she was even given her own tiny conductor's uniform! Her appointment brought immediate publicity to the line and boosted its passenger count by 17% within a year.
Last year, Tama received a promotion! She was named to the post of operating officer for her dedication to customer service on the line. As part of the position, Tama received her own "office" - a renovated former ticket booth at the station. She is now the only female in a managerial position of the company's 36 total employees, and the only feline in history to become an executive of a railroad corporation! She technically holds the 5th highest position in the company! Read more about this crazy promotion.
Tama has her own Wikipedia article as well (quite an accomplishment for a cat) so you can learn more about this remarkable cat.
