Yesterday NASA’s Mike Massimino, part of a seven person crew that left Cape Canaveral on a final maintenance mission to keep the Hubble Space Telescope in service until 2014, sent the first tweet from space. It read: From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying...

I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this until this morning on NPR but there is an absolutely amazing CD created by producer Mark Johnson called Playing for Change. On it musicians from around the world – from the streets of Santa Monica to the desert of Africa and everywhere in between...