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...DIED. ROBERTO MATTA ECHAURREN, 91, Chilean painter whose hallucinatory images of cosmic dream worlds made him a leading Surrealist artist; in Civitavecchia, near Tarquinia, Italy. Matta lik-ened his images to the experience of clasping one's eyes shut against the light...
World peace. The Grateful Dead. Recent breakthroughs in the field of hydroponics. Chocolate cake. Though seemingly staggering in their randomness, these concepts might suddenly assume a certain cosmic unity immediately after (and for roughly three to five hours following) use of the Vapir, the world’s most advanced “digital aromatherapy vaporizer...
...other half of the approximately $1 million prize. His achievement: building a series of X-ray telescopes that have laid bare the secrets of such exotic heavenly objects as quasars, black holes and super-dense neutron stars. And like Koshiba and Davis, he has helped to rectify humanity?s cosmic myopia...
Finally, there's a cosmic dimension to these bugs. So-called exobiologists and astrobiologists, who speculate about life beyond Earth, have long assumed that liquid water is a minimum requirement for existence. But if that water can range from frigid to boiling, and if burial underground isn't a problem, then it's not crazy to think that life exists in the permafrost beneath the surface of Mars, or in the ice-capped ocean that may encircle Jupiter's moon Europa, or in the seas that may exist on Saturn's moon Titan. Indeed, NASA considers extremophiles so relevant...
...riddle of the deep, a glimpse of a life--and, often, a death--we will never know. And who can blame us? There's nothing like a salty sea story to remind us how solidly appealing dry land really is. For all his talk of the ocean and its cosmic mysteries, after six months on a whaleboat even Melville jumped ship, trading his cold, wet hammock for a warm, tropical beach--and, surely, a good book...