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...were soaked in fishy ice puddles, and I was giddy. Tsukiji is a foodie’s Disneyland and it made the late Fulton Fish Market in New York seem like a county fair in comparison. After perusing the breathtaking seafood selection, we lined up for breakfast in the outer market. The salmon, tuna, and sea urchin rice bowl I had for breakfast was unbelievable; it was unlike anything I’d ever tasted before. The tuna for once wasn’t mealy, the sea urchin was creamy and the salmon practically melted the second...
...became an astronaut at the young age of 28, and over the course of his 12-year career, G. David Low made more than 540 laps around Earth. Low held degrees in physics, mechanical engineering, aeronautics and astronautics, but much of his fascination for outer space was inherited: in 1960 his father George Low was a member of the NASA team that first suggested to then President John F. Kennedy the possibility of putting a man on the moon within 10 years. Low died of colon cancer...
...life and allowing NASA to rehearse the round-trip skills that would be necessary for a manned mission. And even as the new ships are readied, some of the great historic ones are still in flight. Voyagers 1 and 2, launched in 1977 on a grand tour of the outer planets, are now on their way out of the solar system, with the last breaths of solar wind at their backs. Remarkably, NASA may be able to stay in touch with them for up to 30 more years--meaning the granddaddy ships could remain online long after some...
...find helpful. Since material wealth cannot help us if we're heartbroken, he often says, and yet those who are strong within can survive even material hardship (as many monks in Tibet have had tragic occasion to prove), it makes more sense to concentrate on our inner, not our outer, resources. We in the privileged world spend so much time strengthening and working on our bodies, perhaps we could also use some time training what lies beneath them, at the source of our well-being: the mind...
Borkin has spent her fledgling scientific career at Harvard’s new Initiative for Innovative Computing (IIC), applying three-dimensional brain imaging techniques to her study of newborn stars in outer space...