- Florida’s Commissioner of Education thinks Jane Austen was an American. I’m not planning any trips to the Sunshine State for the foreseeable future.
- Oh, lovely. Adult Spotted Lanternflies (Lycorma delicatula) can hang on to a speeding car.
- Jennifer Ouellette digs a little deeper into new research concerning the Antikythera Mechanism. Not all are convinced by the statistical approach.
- Airborne hippos!
- Japan eliminated the last of its regulations requiring the use of floppy disks for administrative purposes. Before any of us in the USA get to feeling smug, be it known that control of our nuclear arsenal broke its dependence on floppies only five years ago. Eight-inch floppies.
- Summer camp on the bus! Keep Austin real.