Nerd alert…
I’m sharing your love for Wired Magazine today with their “Stunning Views of Glaciers from Space” (!) I love looking at these pictures and just imagining the millions of years of time and information that locked in that ice.
Just perusing Wired’s list of Recent Articles is like finding a treasure trove of information. So, I think you are right, we should get a subscription.
Here is a list of some articles just to entice you:
“Freaky new Ghostshark ID’d Off California Coast”
“One Million Spiders make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth”
“Details of Galactic Core Revealed in X-Rays”
Ok, thats enough.
Here’s something else nerdy that I thought you would like. This article about our brain’s “dark network“. Apparently, our brain is constantly traveling back and forth in time visiting our past and our future except when we have a task at hand and then the time traveling chatter falls silent so we can concentrate. Weird.
Emilily is discussing. 
Carmen is discussing. 
Emilily 6:01 pm on September 23, 2009 Permalink
I am on it! I love Wired. Except it is going to have to be sent to your house for now, and then perhaps you can send them to me after you’ve read them. But consider it done!
Those glacier pictures are amazing! Seeing them is the closest we will ever get to seeing time freeze (I think, unless we learn to time travel, in which case it follows we will also learn to time stop, too…and I bet there’s a Wired article on that somewhere.) What strikes me the most is that, except for the brown land and the blue water, they are almost completely colorless, like in the hundreds of square miles between the ice and the sky, there is nothing to disrupt the purity of light and shadows. Beautiful.
We must have been on the same page today, because I was looking at these images earlier. They’re high-megapixel panoramic views taken with cameras mounted on robotic arms at the tops of redwood trees. (From the image on that link, you can zoom in and pan across the horizon.) The excerpt for the image says: “This is a 360 degree panorama from atop the largest (not tallest) tree in Humboldt Redwoods State Park. This is the world’s tallest forest, containing over 100 of the 150 known trees on Earth over 350 feet.”