This week: In the matchup between Dark Energy and gravity, Dark Energy is winning. Medical names for ailments, no matter how mundane, make them more frightening. All those science fiction movies you watched as a kid (ahem) are right: Space makes everything ten times scarier and more lethal.
Awesome theme song Comrade Elvis courtesy Hilotrons and Kelp Records
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