Time to clear out the bookmarks with another round-up of random geekery. This time we’re looking at the stars, which is to say at Star Wars and Star Trek (plus a bunch of Doctor Who stuff too).
• Scientists studying sand formations in the Sahara are learning a lot by investigating the formation of barchans — big, crescent-shaped, migrating dunes. And they’re doing this on Tatooine — at Mos Espa, boyhood home of the young Anakin Skywalker.
• Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and John Rawls.
• “Spoilers, sweetie — spoilers!”
• “William Shakespeare’s Star Wars”
• “I never noticed, not once, that the entire time, Riker was stepping over chair backs like some kind of maniac and making it look perfectly natural.”
• “The Gospel According to Doctor Who”
• Make it so.
• “Creating a path for immigrants to become taxpayers is logical. LLAP.”
• The TARDIS in ancient Utah, in Alaska, and in your kitchen.
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