New Dwarf Planet Discovered

Many space enthusiasts feel sorry for Pluto: it was reclassified as a dwarf planet and even used as a verb—”to pluto” something is to devalue and downgrade it. But new evidence suggests Pluto isn’t so sad after all—it has a friend. The recently discovered planet, named RR245, is in the Kuiper Belt (a region beyond Neptune that’s populated by icy objects) and orbits the sun …

Napping Declutters Your Mind

If your boss catches you napping under your desk Costanza-style today, direct them to this article from NY Mag’s Science of Us. Basically, sleep is like housekeeping for your mind, and a nap “is like letting Marie Kondo loose in your brain”—meaning a bunch of your non-essential and irrelevant information is decluttered. The process is called “synaptic pruning” and it’s the reason we feel refreshed …

Artists Respond to Attack in Nice

As always, a picture tells a thousand words and artists from all over the world are illustrating their grief (and anger) in the wake of the heartbreaking attack in Nice, France. Instead of joyful Bastille Day images, these are of sorrow, confusion and violence. Be warned: some are a little graphic, but you can see them all on Huffington Post.