links for 2008-02-01

"[A] two-week anthology in which music nerds write about tracks they've attached to a particular crippling breakup, let you splash around in the stories behind them and hopefully, if we've done our jobs, make you feel slightly better about your own mi

""Our little craft has returned a gold mine of exciting data," said Dr. Sean C. Solomon of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the mission's lead investigator."

With pictures!

"Of the 17 topics, emergency contraception was mentioned least, taught by only 30 percent of teachers. Only 32 percent of teachers brought up homosexuality or sexual orientation, 34 percent taught how to use condoms, 37 percent taught how to use other for

"1. The debt is an untamed lawn
2. The fund drive is like a mower that has
come upon boulders hidden in the grass"

"[I]n spite of the usefulness of carbon-14, theorists have struggled to explain why its half-life so long compared with those of carbon-11, oxygen-14, oxygen-15 and nitrogen-13, which are just a matter of minutes. "

The state of our standard model is strong...

An interactive application to play with.