"dark and dangerous like a secret that's whispered in a hush"

The progress of science, illustrated with three links:

1. Capturing the atom bomb on film (via)
   
   
2. Secret lives of the harvest mice (via)
   
   
3. Gliese 581g is the first discovered earthlike exoplanet in the habitable zone of its star, a red dwarf 20 light-years away. It's probably tidally locked, but still. The paper.

Looking back, looking around, looking ahead.

---L.