Stuff I thought was interesting from April 22nd through October 25th:

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• X-37B unmanned space shuttle to be launched tonight | Mail Online – The U.S. military is poised to launch the mysterious X-37B unmanned winged spacecraft tonight – but what America plans to do with it there is anyone's guess.
• Bicycle Camping — A Guide to Free, Self-sufficient, Legal Backwoods Camping – Bicycle camping or bikepacking, also called low-impact camping or primitive camping, is the best part of a loaded touring trip. A discussion of how and where to camp with information about trespass laws and government regulations

Waterway to Orbit by James Vernacotola

Explanation: The 32nd shuttle mission to the International Space Station, STS-130, left planet Earth on February 8. Its early morning launch to orbit from Kennedy Space Center‘s pad 39A followed the long, graceful, eastward arc seen in this 2 minute time exposure. Well composed, the dramatic picture also shows the arc’s watery reflection from the Intracoastal Waterway Bridge, in Ponte Vedra, Florida, about 115 miles north of the launch site. In the celestial background a waning crescent Moon and stars left their own short trails against the still dark sky. The brightest star trail near the moon was made by red supergiant Antares, alpha star of the constellation Scorpius.

Source: NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

Chinese boy has 31 fingers, toes

A Chinese boy with 31 fingers and toes is set to undergo an operation to remove the extra digits.

The six-year-old boy, whose name has not been released, has 16 toes and 15 fingers.

The condition is known as polydactyly.

‘Man with the golden arm’ saves 2million babies in half a century of donating rare type of blood

An Australian man who has been donating his extremely rare kind of blood for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies.

James Harrison, 74, has an antibody in his plasma that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia.

Parents don’t act on cyber-safety fears

Most Australian parents are concerned about the safety of their children online. But new research shows that parents don’t back up their concerns with meaningful actions, and that in any event they might well be concerned about the wrong risks.

Volcanic Eruption in Iceland

Chile: The Earthquake Picture I never Sent

“I never sent this poorly-focused photo of the earthquake survivor. The preconception of what makes a good photograph, the aesthetics, the layers of composition, and the sharpness or lack of it, all became reasons not to choose it. It was some time later when I realized that the sadness of the out-of-focus man with his pet is still transmitted as pain and devastation even through the picture’s technical defects, and banishes all the photographic concepts I hold true in my own little world. I blame Reason for overcoming Emotion.”

Chinese consumed millions of gallons of toxic sewage oil: study

Chinese cooking oil siphoned from restaurants’ waste tanks and stripped out of raw sewage is being resold on the cheap and has for years tainted approximately one out of every ten meals cooked in the eastern nation, according to a recent study.

World’s Biggest Cities Merging into “Mega Regions”

The world’s mega-cities are merging to form vast “mega-regions” which may stretch hundreds of kilometres across countries and be home to more than 100 million people, according to a major new UN report.