Stalking Venus

Laurent was the man behind fabric-printing the works of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian onto sack-like dresses, taking the world by storm with their simple lines and bright designs. He was also the man that finally made it okay for women to wear pants, thereby breaking with an entire civilisation’s passé traditions…

The current mission, bound carries the bus-sized Japanese Pressurized Module, or JPM, which is the station’s largest module. Together with the three-member station crew, and guidance from ground teams across the globe, the shuttle’s astronauts will install the module and Kibo’s robotic arm system.

Not only did I not know that there was a slew of ‘God thinks you’re a jerkoff but he doesn’t mind me emailing you to tell you so’ services out there, but now I also know that if I want to send gloating emails to my ‘friends’ that didn’t make the grade, at least those emails will be protected by multiple safeguards to ensure they don’t get sent before I’m actually safely out of harms way. After all, I’d hate my sinful work colleagues to get that email I wrote for them before I’m swept up

When the Chaiten volcano erupted on Friday 2 May in the southeastern part of Chile, the initial volcanic plume spewed ash and dust into the air to form a towering column nearly 17 kilometres high. Wind quickly spread the column out in a long line eastwards over the Andes and into Argentina.

It’s the first time [...]