APOD: 2026 May 17 – NGC 1300: Barred Spiral Galaxy

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

This week’s dispatch is out there waiting to be found.

But it won’t be employing any nefarious tactics to grab your attention. You have to hunt it out amongst all the other multimedia offerings cluttering the web.

Actually… that sounds like more work than most care for. So I’ll just include this link and hope you’ll click on it and bathe in a curatorial goodness algorithms struggle to imitate. https://open.substack.com/pub/documentally/p/notes-from-the-resilient-life-575
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Notes from the Resilient Life [575]

Greetings from The Borders...

Documentally

"I’m not one of these people who, rightly or wrongly, thinks that the atomic bombing of Japan is a moral referendum for the honor of the United States. ... “What exactly did Harry Truman know and not know about the atomic bombings?” is the kind of question that appeals to me, and as the book indicates, I think you get a very different answer to a lot of other questions once you ask it."

https://www.aip.org/history/q-a-wellerstein-nuclear-history

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Q&A: Alex Wellerstein on the craft of nuclear history

AIP History Weekly Edition: May 8, 2026

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Let us all celebrate Kentucky Derby Day with this classic.
#KentuckyDerby #HST #Steadman #Drunk #DecadentAndDepraved

http://brianb.freeshell.org/a/kddd.pdf

Hunter S. Thompson The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved

Hunter S. Thompson's classic article, "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved," originally published in Scanlan's, June 1970.

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