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Decomissioned NASA Craft Brought Back For One Last Job: Like Taken But With Asteroids

NASA spacecraft Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has in the past discovered and characterized thousands of asteroids before being put in "hibernation," which is a fairly terrifying euphemism. But next month it's coming back for one last mission: identifying potentially dangerous asteroids, that will then be... "relocated."

10 Books You Should Read If You’re Interested in The Age of Ice

As those insurance commercials keep telling me, more is better. So if you're excited for The Age of Ice, why not be excited for ten other new books, too? Other than The Brothers Karamazov and Doctor Zhivago, of course. With that in mind, we've compiled a list of books those intrigued by Sidorova's work will likely enjoy.

Grad Student Being Paid to Photograph Rare Red Lightning, Has Coolest Job Ever

Okay, so maybe Iron Man beats lightning photographer so far as jobs go, but I maintain that Jason Ahrns, along with other scientists, is probably having a fairly awesome summer. Their sponsored project? Fly in a Gulfstream V in search of rare, red lightning.

Robot Barista Makes Custom Coffee Using the Cloud

The Briggo robot makes coffee via app. You specifying how you want the milk steamed, any flavor shots (for people who are too silly to appreciate the taste of coffee alone), and kind of sweetener. Then it tells you the exact pickup time. Something that automatically figures out my coffee while I'm still half-asleep? Um, yes please!

That Is Too Much Dreadlock, About 19 Feet Too Much

There are some pretty strange Guinness World Records out there. Longest underwater kiss, largest gathering of people dressed like Gandhi, most spoons on a human body-- and longest dreadlocks. Asha Zulu Mandela holds the last with 19'6" dreads (55' individual strands) that seem to be a little bit messing up her life.

New Study Confirms (My) Upper East Side School Is the Saddest Place in NYC

Stuyvesant, Horace Mann, my own Upper East Side brick prison (Hunter College High School)-- all breeding grounds of dead-eyed, ofttimes socially awkward graduates who sometimes like to argue about whose school was hardest. While we may disagree about that unto death, a new study reports: Hunter is the saddest.

Okkervil River Makes Video Game In Anticipation of Their Next LP

"I should get off the computer and go outside." It's not just the way most of my mornings start -- it's also the opening of the new browser video game The Silver Gymnasium, written by Okkervill River frontman Will Sheff in anticipation of the band's upcoming LP of the same name, which is set to drop on September 3.

Auroras, Including the Northern Lights, Now Available in a Jar

Because we as a species seem unable to appreciate beautiful things without automatically musing about the price tag, scientists at NASA have recently followed Europe in bottling auroras, both of the famous Northern Lights and several extraterrestrial ones. As there are about a dozen in existence, you can't have one of your own quite yet, though.

Ray Bradbury Started a Zine, Because Of Course He Did, and It’s Available Online

The author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 started a zine shortly after high school, an act which is now commonly met with derision, but was actually pretty popular for science fiction enthusiasts back in the day. It's called Futuria Fantasia (really), and you can find all four issues free on Project Gutenberg.

Largest Gun Bust in NYC History Because Of Rapper’s Instagram

While Sherlock Holmes may have Moriarty, and Superman Lex Luthor, and we're all thrilled to watch their never-ending battles, it's kind of comforting when real life criminals are too stupid to do much damage before going balls-up in some truly glorious ways. Case in point: the largest gun bust in NYC history happened because of Instagram.