Wes Phillips

Graphic representations of every object in our solar system with a diameter greater than 200 miles: One star, four gas giant planets, four terrestrial planets, three dwarf planets, 21 moons, four asteroids, and 51 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs).

It's mid-afternoon and your energy is low. You need KT, stat!

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Boy, this is great writing tempered by knowledge and experience.

Those rubber">http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070428/bob9.asp">rubber duckies oceanographers have been tracking since 1992 are about to make landfall in the UK. Not the first time Old Blighty has been menaced by an armada.

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis posits that the grammatical categories of the language a person speaks affects how he or she perceives the world. It has been a lightning rod of controversy ever since it was proposed. A new paper suggests that it's half true—sort of.

Our language, English—as spoken by us. A little bit of Fry & Laurie.

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"The">http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_colapinto">… Interpreter" in The New Yorker, about Dan Everett's work on the Pirah, has generated a lot of discussion on the Interwebs. The MIT linguists, who subscribe to the Chomskyan universal">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar">universal grammar theory, fired backhttp://www.physorg.com/news96558379.html">back;. Now, Vera da Silva Sinha and Chris Sinha, two anthropologists who have done fieldwork with another Amazonian community and who have visited the Pirah, chime in.