The Jantar Mantar, Jaipur. Truly uncanny—it appears in _The Fall_.

Wow. Note how the clouds scrupulously avoid Australia.

Stories like this are what keep me coming back to Lo9.

"The Left Hand of Darkness" is one of my favorite books.

16 mins to fall asleep? Yeah right.

Oh, my god, shipping.

The gender pronouns were my favourite thing about the book. I especially like that I still don't know what gender the protagonist is although I've finished reading it.

I'd just like to add—although it didn't come across in the article, I mostly told the story to emphasize that my fears that I'd be asked to change the pronouns or lose any chance of selling the novel were unfounded. My agent proposed rethinking the pronouns it was in a totally reasonable way, but I was very anxious.…

Bang on. It guessed me as Australian, then New Zealand, then England-English. And I was right in picking the 'she'll be right' answer as one that would definitely mark me as Aussie.

Quite a few asteroids are thought to be contact binaries. At the same time they're also rubble piles, the two original asteroids become the two "lobes" of the peanut with loose rubble filling in the gaps.

Sex Cauldron?! I thought they shut that place down!

'K, this is a good example of a bad infographic, right? Visually, it looks like Beethoven slept a lot more than Georges Simeonon, but they actually had the same schedule.

I loved having long hair, but then my hairline started to recede and I said NOPE! Not going to be that guy.

Pandora isn't real.

Anatomy, not psychology, but yuh whatever.

This has very little to do with psychology...

I completely agree, especially about Oblivion. It was a very enjoyable movie, in a time when most filmmakers prefer to waste our time with countless and countless sequels and remakes.