‘Peanuts,’ Charles Schulz, and the state that started it all(csmonitor.com)

53 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 21 comments

Jacques Barzun, Cultural historian and critic (1980)(csmonitor.com)

9 points by Michelangelo11 26 days ago | 5 comments

A 1980 Christian Science Monitor profile of Jacques Barzun, the cultural historian, teacher, and critic of the arts and letters.

The “invented persona” behind the GISAID viral sequence database(science.org)

98 points by Metacelsus 3 years ago | 40 comments

GDP is the wrong tool for measuring what matters (2020)(scientificamerican.com)

36 points by simonfxr 3 years ago | 10 comments

The best kimchi is made in earthenware pots(washingtonpost.com)

120 points by pcl 3 years ago | 59 comments

JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission(science.org)

97 points by Muhammad523 8 days ago | 19 comments

Science news feature on Japan's MMX mission, which aims to return samples from Mars's moon Phobos to learn how it formed and possibly retrieve pieces of Mars.