For this evening's Planetary Radio Live event, Mat Kaplan asked me to do a presentation of some favorite space images. I told him that picking favorite space images is like picking favorite children; it's not possible because they're all my favorite. To narrow things down, I decided to explore a theme: "Many Worlds."

Here is a bouquet of leftover links for this evening. Some are intriguing. Some just stink. A peek deep into Bigfoot culture. It is NOT pretty. It’s delusional. Three experts disagree on bonding with a sasquatch – Three experts disagree on bonding with a sasquatch: Members. BBC News – Sonic boom heard in Essex, Cambridgeshire…

Man of Steel was a thoroughly entertaining superhero movie and a serviceable Superman movie. Fortunately, the last son of Krypton was not the only super-powered being saving the world, as the king of Atlantis was hanging out, cleaning up ol’ Kal-El’s mess. It has been 98 days since our last Aquaman is Awesome post. We’re [...]

SkS Highlights On May 15, the peer-reviewed paper, Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature was published in the scientific journal, Environmental Research Letters (ERL). The paper presents The Consensus Project (TCP) – a survey of over 12,000 peer-reviewed climate science papers by our volunteer, citizen science team at Skeptical Science. The analysis  found a 97% consensus among papers taking a […]

I'm in Rio (my first visit to South America!) for the annual Symposium on Computational Geometry.Your out-of-context quote of the day:"I don't care about geometry." — Jeff Erickson(as part of a nice talk exactly characterizing the three-dimensional manifolds-with-quadmeshed-boundary that can be partitioned into a mesh of topological hexahedra).I think my favorite talk of the day was the first one, by Raimund Seidel, on exact exponential-time algorithms in computational geometry. Raimund […]