For the night is bright and full of beauty. Amateur photo of M42, the Orion Nebula, taken by photographer Andrew Kirk. See more of his astrophotos here.

YES. I did a big vegetable overhaul to try to find new (to me) and better vegetable treatments, and it went a long way to making my kids like vegetables more. My kids eat spinach without difficulty now because I tried making it Asian style, they’ll eat bean sprouts in their ramen, and spaghetti squash with meat/pasta…

It’s Unicorns but there was that novelette set in Charles Stross’ Laundry series:

‘There are at Least 11 Runaway Galaxies Screaming Across the Universe.’

Great suggestions, thanks!

This is great! I’ve also found that, if a baby/toddler resists a particular vegetable, there’s a few other things that worked for us:

I would watch that show.

How long before we get a ‘My Little Kelpie’ dark and gritty cinematic universe reboot?

Both curiosity and emotional intelligence also fuel overall happiness. There’s a very powerful reciprocal link between both curiosity and emotional intelligence, and life satisfaction :)

To take the separation of work and play a step further, I’ve set up an additional profile on my Android tablet. Just the minor inertia of having to log out and back in to my ‘Play’ profile is enough for a modest productivity bump.

“Yeah, I had an embryonic twin embedded in my brain.”