"The beauty of a living thing / is not the atoms that go into it ... "

Meanwhile, a correction: while I was gone, apparently another research group took the data for Gliese 581g and failed to confirm its existence (via). Drama in exoplanetary sciences, ho!

So to replace that, two entertaining science-related links:

The test flight of the first human-powered orinthopter (via) -- that is, a plane propelled by flapping its wings like a bird. Car-assisted take-off, but still danged cool.

And not that this is news, but some vulcanologists are crazier than others.

... but the way those atoms / are put together

---L.