Mobile World Congress

Mobile World Congress is underway in Barcelona, providing a look into our mobile and virtual reality future. Something tells me "mobility" won't be everything it's cracked up to be.

And now for something completely different

Had never seen this happen before. From the looks of things, neither had New York Rangers defenseman Dan Girardi.

Mars - Namib Dune

Want to explore the surface of Mars?

Thanks to NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Curiosity Mars Rover's mast camera captured a 360-degree view of the surface of Mars.

"This image of the downwind face of Namib Dune on Mars covers 360 degrees, including a portion of Mount Sharp on the horizon. Use the arrows in the top left, or click and drag your cursor or mouse, to move the view up/down and right/left."

Einstein's Theory of Relativity

The New Yorker ~ David Sipress

Excerpted from The New Yorker, by Nicola Twilley:

Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of how Scientists Finally Found Them

"The waves rippled outward in every direction, weakening as they went. On Earth, dinosaurs rose, evolved, and went extinct. The waves kept going. About fifty thousand years ago, they entered our own Milky Way galaxy, just as Homo Sapiens were beginning to replace our Neanderthal cousins as the planet's dominant species of ape. A hundred years ago, Albert Einstein, one of the more advanced members of the species, predicted the waves' existence, inspiring decades of speculation and fruitless searching. Twenty-two years ago, construction began on an enormous detector, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Laboratory (LIGO). Then, on September 14, 2015, at just before eleven in the morning, Central European Time, the waves reached Earth. Marco Drago, a thirty-two-year-old Italian postdoctoral student and member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, was the first person to notice them. He was sitting in front of his computer at the Albert Einstein Institute, in Hannover, Germany, viewing the LIGO data remotely. The waves appeared on his screen as a compressed squiggle, but the most exquisite ears in the universe, attuned to vibrations of less than a trillionth of an inch, would have heard what astronomers call a chirp - a faint whooping from high to low. This morning, in a press conference in Washington, D.C., the LIGO team announced that the signal constitutes the first direct observation of gravitational waves."

Dude . . . Stop the Spread, Please

In our times of microaggressions comes the Metropolitan Transportation Agency's (MTA) campaign to end the scourge of manspreading. At a cost of the $76,707, the MTA's poster campaign is designed to improve civility amongst New York City's 8.6 million daily subway and bus riders. The MTA is more than $34 billion in debt.

The New York Times ~ Hiroko Masuike

Metropolitan Transportation Agency

The New Yorker ~ Ricardo Liniers

The New Yorker ~ Joe Dator