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Word of the Day

Grouse (v./n., GROUSS)

To complain or grumble, or a type of ground-dwelling North American bird. Usage note: this word sounds more fantastic when you accentuate the consonants.)

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Link of the Day

Scott Kelly's photos from a year in space

Yesterday, astronauts Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko returned from almost a year aboard the International Space Station. Kelly took a lot of photos during his time in space, and Alan Taylor compiled a number of good ones over at InFocus:

That second image is Lake Tengis in Kazakhstan. Kelly took a number of striking aerial shots like this. It's pretty weird to see Earth in this format at first but it becomes normal after a while. Maybe that's like his time in space. (We'll give him a few days before asking.)

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