Disrespectful or just obnoxious? Where's the line these days?

100 Tanka poems, illustrated by Katsushika Hokusai, explained by a wet nurse. more inside

New analysis of Mercury backs up Vonnegut. An awfully pretty image, from the MESSENGER spacecraft, shows the moon-like planet. Unlike the moon, however, new analysis suggests that the smooth plains were surfaced mainly by volcanic action, rather than by meteoric impacts and the dusting of detritus. Its magnetic field too seems to indicate immense internal activity. more inside