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1. Sagrada is a board game where you’re competing against each other building stained glass windows (because that happens?) but is named after the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona. Which I knew, but did not know that it was made by Gaudi, and it looks kind of like an alien spaceship, and is still decades from being completed. And the finished building looks like it will be mind-blowingly epic. It was started in 1883, and should be done by 2032. Here’s a video showing a time lapse of what’s planned:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2963MHzP-IE
2. TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, Kepler’s replacement) discovered the first confirmed exocomet, that is to say- a comet in a different solar system. A transit from a spherical planet will make a certain symmetrical shape on a graph of star brightness, but a comet will show a dip that gradually goes back up because of the tail- that’s what they saw, and that’s why they’re calling it a comet. There’s a few more candidates but this is the first confirmed one.
3. Fascia- not just the weird glue that holds us together! They weren’t sure what this tissue that’s all over our insides was for for a long time, but they’re finding out that it does all sorts of amazing shit; it’s one big sensory organ that can go from stiff to liquid, and they are not sure how it’s even doing that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2963MHzP-IE
2. TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, Kepler’s replacement) discovered the first confirmed exocomet, that is to say- a comet in a different solar system. A transit from a spherical planet will make a certain symmetrical shape on a graph of star brightness, but a comet will show a dip that gradually goes back up because of the tail- that’s what they saw, and that’s why they’re calling it a comet. There’s a few more candidates but this is the first confirmed one.
3. Fascia- not just the weird glue that holds us together! They weren’t sure what this tissue that’s all over our insides was for for a long time, but they’re finding out that it does all sorts of amazing shit; it’s one big sensory organ that can go from stiff to liquid, and they are not sure how it’s even doing that.
