• Science

    Largest-ever map of the universe reveals 10x more early galaxies than expected

    June 7, 2025 - By 

    In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, built with data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), consists of all the imaging and a catalog of nearly 800,000 galaxies spanning nearly all of cosmic time. And it’s been challenging existing notions of the infant universe. “Our goal was to construct this deep field of space on a physical scale that far exceeded anything that had been done before,” said UC Santa Barbara physics professor Caitlin Casey, who…

  • Travel

    5 Meaningful Ways to Show Your Pride

    June 7, 2025 - By 

    Home » Gay Travel » This Year, Celebrate Pride With Purpose: 5 Meaningful Ways to Show Your Pride Pride should be more than rainbow capitalism or Instagrammable celebrations. In a year when our rights and lives are under threat, showing up with intention matters more than ever. Here are five ways to honor Pride that go deeper—acts rooted in care, resistance, and real community. If you’re feeling uneasy about the usual ways we celebrate Pride—especially in a year when anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and legislation are surging—you’re not alone. Pride was born as a protest, and it’s okay to honor it in…

  • Astrology

    Music That Stuck With You & Formed You

    June 7, 2025 - By 

    With Venus square Neptune, I’m well aware of what can happen when music is involved! I often refuse to listen to it as I don’t always want to stir my deep feelings. Today, in my stupidity,  I put on some of my mother’s music; Simon & Garfunkel, specifically. I’m grateful for having grown up exposed to storytelling in music. I admired Paul Simon! I did not want to end up, “A Most Peculiar Man“(though I sort of may have)! I rejected, Richard Cory, and his power, grace and style as well! I definitely didn’t want to be a Rock or…

  • Science

    $900,000 grant to Retraction Watch’s parent organization will fund forensic analysis of articles that affect human health – Retraction Watch

    June 5, 2025 - By 

    The Center for Scientific Integrity, the parent nonprofit of Retraction Watch, has launched a new initiative to investigate and rapidly disseminate problems in the medical literature that directly affect human health. Thanks to a $900,000 grant from Open Philanthropy, the Medical Evidence Project will leverage the tools of forensic metascience — using visual and computational methods to determine a paper’s trustworthiness — to rapidly identify problems in scientific articles, combined with the experience and platform of Retraction Watch to disseminate those findings. “We originally set up The Center for Scientific Integrity as a home for Retraction Watch, but we always…

  • Travel

    Safety Wing Review (Updated 2025)

    June 5, 2025 - By 

    Budget travelers love saving money — myself included. But one of the expenses that we shouldn’t be cheap with is travel insurance. After over 17 years of traveling the world, I still never leave home without it. Why? Because I’ve seen firsthand how useful it can be — and how much money it can save. I’ve lost baggage, had my camera broken, and even needed emergency medical help over the years. Travel insurance has been there for me each time. Not only has it saved me money but it’s provided me with peace of mind as I explore. I’ve written…

  • Astrology

    June 5 Birthday Horoscope 2025-26

    June 5, 2025 - By 

    June 5th Birthday Horoscope 2025-2026 MORE BIRTHDAYS If Today is Your Birthday: June 5th   The Year Ahead Forecast for June 2025 to June 2026   If You Were Born Today, June 5: You need to have many things going on at once in order to feel satisfied in life. You seek variety and try to avoid situations that are lifeless or dull. As such, you are better off in a creative job, and in fact, you are likely to be quite successful in such pursuits as long as you learn to plan ahead and manage money well. You pick…

  • Travel

    Hiking the Sultan’s Trail in Eastern Europe – Stage 1: Vienna to Bratislava

    June 3, 2025 - By 

    As our followers on Facebook already know, we are hiking the 2500-km-long Sultan’s Trail from Vienna to Istanbul. After Coen was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer last summer, we decided that the best remedy to pull ourselves together and reclaim our lives was to walk. Hence this big adventure. We’re doing this for ourselves – for our well-being and to celebrate life – and we are combining it with a fundraiser for research into this particular type of cancer: glioblastoma (GBM). We’d love for you to join us in both journeys: the hike and the fundraising, which we’re running through the…

  • Online Deals

    12-Pack Vacplus Toilet Bowl Cleaning Tablets at Amazon

    June 3, 2025 - By 

    VACPLUS via Amazon has 12-Pack Vacplus Toilet Bowl Cleaning Tablets on sale for $8.99 – 50% off when you ‘clip’ the coupon on product page – 5% off when you checkout via Subscribe & Save = $4.04. Shipping is free with Prime or $35+ orders. VACPLUS via Amazon also has 100-Pack Vacplus Toilet Bowl Cleaning Tablets on sale for $47.49 – 30% off when you ‘clip’ the coupon on product page – 5% off when you checkout via Subscribe & Save = $30.87. Shipping is free. Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for finding this deal. Note: You must be logged…

  • Astrology

    Daily Horoscopes for June 2: Insights and Guidance

    June 3, 2025 - By 

    Welcome to your daily horoscope for June 2. The Virgo Moon kicks off the day with clear eyes, fresh focus, and a serious urge to get your life together. After a weekend of Leo Moon energy — big feels, bold moves, and a little extra heat — it’s time to clean up the aftermath. ARIES (March 21 – April 19)That one thing you’ve been “just tolerating” at work? It could boil over today. Don’t let a messy group chat or chaotic Slack thread derail your focus. The Virgo Half Moon lights up your daily grind zone: if your body or…

  • Astrology

    First Impressions, Changing Habits & What You Desire

    June 1, 2025 - By 

    Humans judge people quickly.  Once they have their read they tend to find ways to support it rather than to be open to the idea their first hit might have been off. You can miss a lot this way. Separate but related, people get in habits with their behavior ,  These habits are hard to change and I mean this in the broadest sense. For example if you act as a decent person and you have for decades, it’ very unlikely you are going to start acting like a jerk unless something goes wrong in your brain. The opposite is…