The Para-Rigger

The incomparable Cliff Stoll.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/20/the-impossible-world-of-mc-escher

http://illusionoftheyear.com/cat/top-10-finalists/2015/

Run down, stolen, abandoned.  The result of the left Utopian vision.  If their initial flight was so successful why didn't manned flights follow?

http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/15/americas-most-advanced-climate-station-data-shows-us-in-a-10-year-cooling-trend/

Data compiled from these stations shows a slight cooling trend over the U.S. for the past decade.  “Newly corrected and updated global surface temperature data from NOAA’s [National Centers for Environmental Information] do not support the notion of a global warming ‘hiatus’,” NOAA scientists wrote in their study.

Quick!  Needs more seasonal adjustments!

http://gizmodo.com/why-mathematicians-are-hoarding-this-special-type-of-ja-1711008881

This spring, an 80-year-old Japanese chalk company went out of business.

Nobody, perhaps, was as sad to see the company go as mathematicians who had become obsessed with Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk, the so-called “Rolls Royce of chalk.”