To celebrate this afternoon's successful launch of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, you get a double helping of blog carnivals today.
For the main course, the latest version of the science carnival Tangled Bank was published yesterday at GreyThumb. There you may find a link to my post on NASA's Pluto mission, which rocketed into the Florida sky this afternoon and is now on the way to the outer regions of our Solar System. If you read this after 10:00 PM CST, the probe will already be further away from Earth than our Moon. It'll pick up a boost at Jupiter next year on its way to zipping past Pluto in the summer of 2015.
Also at this week's Tangled Bank, you can find a review, courtesy Orac of Respectful Insolence, of the difference between the bedrock, textbook science that is the foundation of our technological culture, and the cutting-edge, frontier science that dominates the headlines—and that is occasionally completely wrong. In addition, look for detailed information on the gradual shifting of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's official "Plant Hardiness Zones" in recent years from Chris Clarke at Creek Running North.
For dessert, the fifteenth edition of I and the Bird is now available at Snail's Tales.
Highlights include an amusing tale of a mysterious man named Sartre and his binocular wisdom from Rob Fergus of Birdchaser, and an invitation to participate in this spring's Great Texas Birding Classic from a Houston blogger at Crows Really Are Wise.
Photo (c) Orlando Sentinel 2006
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