Days of Wonder. This is mostly for the reader who, in response to my posting about the asteroid landing, said something like “So what?”

Mankind’s giant leaps have become so frequent that by the end
of a week which saw two vast achievements most of us had
returned to our smaller concerns, if, indeed, we had taken much
notice of the announcements in the first place. It is an endearing
oddness of our species that while we’re landing on an asteroid
136 million miles away or learning that we have a little more than
double the genes of a fruit fly, we take our keenest satisfaction
from painting the sitting-room or reading about Tom Cruise and
Nicole Kidman. Guardian

And here’s more for the reader (perhaps the same one) who, commenting on my item about the rate of recession of the Antarctic ice cap, said said something amounting to “So What?”: Glacier Loss Seen as Clear Sign
of Human Role in Global
Warming

Studies show that the icecap atop
Mount Kilimanjaro is retreating at
such a pace that it will disappear in
less than 15 years. The vanishing is a
clear sign that a global warming trend
has exceeded typical climate shifts. New York Times