November 1, 2022

Recorded in December of 1975 and released in August 1976, Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" remains the greatest November ballad ever written, period. See above.

Mock Paper Scissors on the 2024 Goat Rodeo: Stealth Goats Emerge.

The Society Pages notes that Raising the Minimum Wage Changes Relationship Patterns.

Balloon Juice is asking for just 25 more Pairs of Boots On the Ground in Arizona.

Attention space nerds! The Lucy mission is the first mission to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, ancient clusters of asteroid “fossils” that orbit around the Sun at the same distance as Jupiter. To reach them, the Lucy spacecraft’s trajectory includes three gravity assist spins around the Earth give it the extra, gravity assist boosts it needs to send it on its way.

And being a generous craft, Lucy was good enough to snap these evocative pictures of the Earth and the Moon as it passed by.

Round Up by driftglass of the Professional Left Podcast and Science Fiction University

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