‘The girl who feels no pain was in the kitchen, stirring ramen noodles, when the spoon slipped from her hand and dropped into the pot of boiling water. It was a school night; the TV was on in the living room, and her mother was folding clothes on the couch. Without thinking, Ashlyn Blocker reached her right hand in to retrieve the spoon, then took her hand out of the water and stood looking at it under the oven light.” (NYTimes).
‘When Curiosity chief scientist John Grotzinger told NPR earlier this week that the Mars rover had found something that “is gonna be one for the history books,” most of the speculation centered around the possibility that the surface probe has discovered evidence of organic life on the Red Planet.
Perhaps, but we won’t know the answer until next month when NASA said it will spill the beans about the “historic” data from a recent Curiosity soil sample-collecting foray that the mission’s “science team is busily chewing away on,” as Grotzinger put it.
One thing’s for sure—the space agency that seemed on the verge of irrelevance in the public mind just a couple of years ago is back to playing the public relations game like nobody’s business.’ (ThinkDigit News).
