Research project comes to brutal end:

[D]ozens of massive Siberian grizzly bears whose lives were catalogued for the groundbreaking eight-year study have been slaughtered in their nature sanctuary as a message to the Canadian researchers, Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns, to abandon the project.

(Via rc3.org )

Look waaaay up:

On Aug. 27 at 5:51 a.m. ET (1051 GMT) Mars will be less than 34.65 million miles (55.76 million kilometers) away -- closer than it’s been in 59,619 years.

Ok, just to prove I have some sort of excuse for not posting, some summertime pictures: