Click Here to Read: New Horizons completes flyby of Ultima Thule
By Bryan Dyne on the World Socialist Web Site on January 4, 2019.
Illustration of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69 – nicknamed “Ultima Thule” – a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles beyond Pluto. Set for New Year’s 2019, New Horizons’ exploration of Ultima will be the farthest space probe flyby in history.
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Patty Crane
A happy, healthy and hopeful New Year, everyone. We have a delightful poetry surprise for you this morning. Although we have featured poets who are also translators, I know that we haven’t yet had poems in Swedish. Since this is an international website, I also know that those of you who are Swedish speakers yourselves must of course be familiar with the work of Nobel prize-winning poet, Tomas Tranströmer. His volume of selected Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: January 7, 2019
Click Here to Read: Brain scans show social exclusion creates jihadists, say researchers: International studies of young Muslim men show that radicalisation follows a sense of isolation from society by Mark Townsend on the Guardian website on January 6, 2019.
Two armed Iraqi insurgents from northern Iraq, belonging to a faction of the Iraqi insurgency, which carries out attacks on American and coalition forces. Photo: بدر الإسلام Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
