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An interesting video by Space Matters on neutron stars, the collapsed cores of massive supergiant stars which had total masses of between 1...

Three appalling tidbits of info that show how much the rot has already set in in the United Kingdom: An adhan in the Houses of Parliament...

Manfred Mann's Earth Band with Davy's on the road again . It's on the 1978 album Watch , although it came out as a single in 197...

Foo Fighters with Monkey Wrench . From the album The Colour and the Shape (1997). In the elevator, Grohl hears a muzak version (i.e...

A marvellous video by Blue Paw Print : And while I'm at it, you might want to check out Dan Sharp's " ME262 - Developmen...

Mac DeMarco with Passing out Pieces . From the album Salad Days (2014). Canadian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and produ...

After more than half a century, America finally made it back to the Moon, as Intuitive Machines's NOVA C-Lander, called Odysseus , touch...

Mass riots broke out yesterday in The Hague, The Netherlands, when two rival gangs of Eritreans numbering hundreds of individuals clashed wi...

It's excellent . And the soundtrack comprising material from Echo & The Bunnymen, Joy Division, Tears for Fears, INXS et al w...

You know, 3/4ths into this movie I was seriously starting to think David Lynch is overrated. I was seriously starting to think of quitting. ...

A truly enlightening and fun to watch video about a legendary aircraft... ...that, thanks to the movie Devotion (such a shame it ta...

Saw it many years ago but the favorable impression remains: 7.5 to 10, worth your time. It's a psychological drama directed by Ni...

In most of Western Europe, farmers have taken to the streets in an unprecedented way, ostensibly - or principally - to protest high fuel pri...

Thin Lizzy with Wild One . Album Fighting (1975). Hard to believe TL first broke up more than 40 years ago already - in 1983, that w...

Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies . I got to know her (well... not personally)...

Prefab Sprout with Bonny . From the 1985 album Steve McQueen ... ...with the iconic album cover. Only now did I find out the band is ...

Since 13 December Poland has a new government in the form of a center-left coalition of which the main party is Donald Tusk's PO ( Platf...

The hunt is on…. https://t.co/jNJQcsWw4a — DUNE Science (@DUNEScience) December 26, 2023 "The neutrino is perhaps the most fascina...

Here's another sci-fi flick you probably never heard of, Europa Report , about a space mission in search of extraterrestrial life to Eur...

In Europe anyway. Hameln, Germany: „Silvester weitgehend friedlich“ (ZDF) Hameln pic.twitter.com/lNJ68fP0UZ — Anabel Schunke (@ainyrock...