Rock, paper, scissors

Winning every time.

Redemption Song

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros covering Bob Marley.

Higgs Hunt

News on the CERN Higgs search are expected on July 4th.

Summertime

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.

Impossible Germany

Wilco.

One More Dollar

Gillian Welch.

arXiv title of the day

Care and feeding of frogs (arXiv:1206.3972). Astrophysics of propeller moonlets, not biology. 

Time

Tom Waits.

Oldest cave art

Uranium-thorium dating shows that the Altamira cave paintings might go back 40,800 years. While the Altamira cave is closed to the public. There are similar caves nearby that are worth a visit. Humbling.

Windmills

Barbara Lewis from Stax.

NuSTAR

Congratulations to the NuSTAR team for a successful launch. Nice probe of the 5-80 keV energy window.

Happy Birthday Fermi

The Fermi Observatory celebrates 4 years in orbit.

A Change is Gonna Come

Aretha Franklin

Higgs in space?

Latest take on the intriguing excess detected by Fermi between 110 GeV to 140 GeV.

Fahrenheit 451

Very sad to hear about Ray Bradbury's passing. Brilliant writer.

The Wilhelm Scream

The Bamboos feat. Megan Washington covering James Blake.

We need to talk about keVins

Recent paper gets the price for best particle name since quarks (arXiv:1205.0551).  Remains to be seen if Warm Dark Matter "keVins" can save the day.

Venus transit

Nice video of the Venus transit from Cairns (Australia).

Repurposed

Ex-spy telescope might fly as dark energy satellite. Interesting development.

Monday

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." Dorothy Parker

Rescue

Another week in the edge.

Milkdromeda

Nice simulation of the night sky following  the approach of  M31 and our Galaxy. Interesting way to bring extragalactic science to us in a billion years.