gleans at 7:40 PM MT, 5/15

 

New View: Universe Suddenly Twice as Bright  The universe is twice as bright as it appears, astronomers now suggest.  <== is this analogous to "Wagner's music is not as good as it sounds"?

Icelandic museum offers long and short of male organ  Sigurdur Hjartarson is missing a human penis. But he's not worried: four men have promised to donate theirs to him when they die.

Australian suburb goes to pot as police raid 'cannabisville'  A Sydney suburb has been dubbed "cannabisville" after police found four apparently normal family homes were actually marijuana hothouses containing vast quantities of the illegal drug. 

As food prices shoot up, so do backyard gardens

Gasoline and food price spikes have had what could be called a 'Miracle-Gro' effect on the backyard garden movement.

 

 

 

New crop of gardeners in plush London suburbs

Food prices and concerns about commercially grown produce are prompting a 'grow your own' culture.

 

 

 

Academics

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

by Professor X

The idea that a university education is for everyone is a destructive myth. An instructor at a "college of last resort" explains why.