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.
Click Here to Read: When a Lynching Memorial Becomes a Photo Opportunity: A reflection on the commodification of Jim Crow’s violence through public memorials by William C. Anderson on the HyperAllergic website on December 27, 2018.
The monument to document the history and exact place of the lynching of Micheal Donald in Mobile, AL and to tell why the street name was charged. Photo: Omnia Williams. 
Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
