"Beautiful over the housetops, ghastly, phantom moon, / Immense and silent moon"

[larryhammer]

More links:

Why shoelaces eventually come undone. Short answer: when your foot comes down, the sudden stop tugs a very tiny bit on the free ends of the bow, and the tiny tugs build up. (via)

A solar-powered device that condenses water out of low-humidity air. Mind you, that 20% humidity is pretty moist for a desert: our evaporative cooler works effectively only below that, which is most of the time outside of rainy season. Good stuff anyway.

There is heat below the surface of Enceladus. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "Dirge for Two Veterans," Walt Whitman.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

Hm, interesting. My laces usually come undone (on the one pair that has laces) from jeans-hem drag.

[larryhammer]

Heh. I wonder if they corrected the results for that?

[thistleingrey]

I wonder, too. Someone may've thought of it while putting together the Economist write-up: that photo is of someone wearing shorts, emphatically.