Sun Dazzles Scientists

Scientists discover activity on the sun, which was up until now thought "impossible". Scientific inquiry continues on this, as well as other hot topics like cosmic rays, and its impact on global warming.

Story and more amazing pix here.

UPDATE: Apropos story on the latest eco-centrics, NY Times, "The Year Without Toilet Paper":

DINNER was the usual affair on Thursday night in Apartment 9F in an elegant prewar on Lower Fifth Avenue. There was shredded cabbage with fruit-scrap vinegar; mashed parsnips and yellow carrots with local butter and fresh thyme; a terrific frittata; then homemade yogurt with honey and thyme tea, eaten under the greenish flickering light cast by two beeswax candles and a fluorescent bulb.

A sour odor hovered oh-so-slightly in the air, the faint tang, not wholly unpleasant, that is the mark of the home composter. Isabella Beavan, age 2, staggered around the neo-Modern furniture — the Eames chairs, the brown velvet couch, the Lucite lamps and the steel cafe table upon which dinner was set — her silhouette greatly amplified by her organic cotton diapers in their enormous boiled-wool, snap-front cover.

A visitor avoided the bathroom because she knew she would find no toilet paper there.

(Hint: no newspapers either) Mr. Mom for a year is writing a book on the subject. (maybe it will be an e-book)

Chicago version here.