True View

After landing on a strange, recently discovered planet in a far-away solar system, the Mission Commander peers out the viewing portal to survey the alien landscape before him. 

Batball

Lost in the midst of the press releases and reactions surrounding the LA Clippers was a more gripping story preceding next month's draft.  It turns out that the NBA commissioner has a much larger problem looming -- whether or not to allow Batman to play on a team.

After declaring himself eligible, lottery teams have been scrambling to trade and counteroffer for the rights to pick-up the Caped Crusader.  However, teams that traditionally find themselves atop the rankings and still playing into June have protested vigorously.  Clearly this one new player would upend next year's standings and pose a formidable challenge to team defenses across the nation. 

Giggleroll

Isn't it wonderful when you finally "get" the punchline?  

Sprintulum

Advanced techniques for world champion sprinters include interval training of the most bizarre kind.  Exercise physiologists have discovered a method that focuses simultaneously on three crucial components:  quadriceps, abdominals, and triceps. 

Rock Stock

The world's preeminent geologist leads his graduate students in a project to replicate Gutzon Borglum's great triumph in South Dakota.  Her we see the professor inspecting today's work.

Spring Sing

Preview of the Norman Aberschnackle Choir summer extravaganza concert.

Sight Flight

NASA scientists perform field testing of satellite control mechanisms in order to ensure accuracy, increase precision, improve control, and reduce hysteresis to exceed stringent specifications established by IEEE. 

Hydrapause

It can destroy paint and wood, or invite dreaded fungi into inaccessible places.  It can crumble concrete and asphalt, tumble down a mountainside and destroy anything in its path, or sink an enormous passenger ship.  In large quantities, especially when in motion -- it can send automobiles tumbling, or even erase entire coastal towns.  Heck, it can drown you.  But ya gotta admit, there are times when that dihydrogen monoxide stuff just hits the spot. 

Crick Trick

When there is a damsel in distress, there ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough to stop the ranger from making the save.

Jig Dig

An old Irish ritual allows for the very fortunate to share their overabundance of luck.  It's a joyful method -- simply connect yourselves with hand on opposite head and perform a spirited dance. 

Fenced

The NCAA developed an overly complex scheme for accumulating touches and thus points for determining the victor of a light-sabre bout.  Within the piste, the riposte after parry is highly dependent upon a sharp-eyed judge prior to arrêt, whether or not she counts a whip-over, input from the Lamé or any other electronics that are now available with new technology, etc.  The idea is that one needs to succeed within university to make sense of it -- a recursive, self-preserving sport.

Measured

   

It is not always easy or fun to figure out who will stand in the front and who will be in the rear of the team photog.  This is an important issue -- future hall-of-fame exhibits will include the annotated version of today's shot. 

Rotate Fate

Caught in a vortex of the 4th dimension, the two time travelers vainly attempted to understand their dilemma and decide whether they were in grave danger or enjoying the thrill of a lifetime.  

Creed Indeed

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor bright of day can keep the finest athletes from their morning workout.  However, sharp ice can delay things a little.

Jêêpers Crêpers

When award winning chefs prepare a little treat for themselves in their downtime, they still don't mess around.