melotronic adj.— «Bickley-based musician Graham Smith has just completed an album called Eleven, inspired by the first Moon landing. The style of music is electronica / ambient, though Graham refers to it as “melotronic”—melodic...
tuna can n.— «The Cleveland center is also fabricating the Constellation program hardware that will be the first to fly: a prototype of the upper stage of the Ares I rocket that will boost the crew capsule into orbit. The rocket segments...
leave (something) on the table v. phr.— «(Fear of concussions) was a factor in retiring, but not the overriding factor.…I always wanted to leave something on the table. And when I retired, I always wanted to remember what I left on...
pluton n.— «If the ideas are approved at the general meeting of the IAU in Prague next week, schoolchildren will, in future, have to learn that the solar system has 12 planets: eight classical ones that dominate the system—Mercury, Venus...
meteorwrong n.— «Every day, people mail Washington University geochemist Randy Korotev pictures and packages of rocks. They want him to say that their backyard nuggets are from out of this world—and, gram for gram, worth more than gold...
whickerbill n.— «Since you’ve red Dr Sooos, does this mean you dribble in your cornflakes, and fondle your whickerbill at dusk on full moon evenings, or what?» —“Re: Nazi’s Were/Tim Starr can’t clean the poop off his shoes or out of...