Six words, seven heros, twenty years

Clown at home

• InVADER Project to send a Robotic Laser to Explore Deep Sea Vents
  This pushes all my buttons.
• Tree Stumps Are Dead, Right? This One Was Alive
  “It’s a bit unlikely that the tree dies, and goes and knocks on the other trees’ doors and says, ‘Hey, can I get a little carbon off of you? I’m dead.’”
• Facebook study finds link between mass transit and friendships.
  "... travel times, not distance, are what matter in social and economic geography."
• Track This | A new kind of Incognito
  Devious, clever, and crazy that this is what it has come to.
• Chicago’s Real Signature Pizza Is Crispy, Crunchy, and Nothing Like Deep Dish
  This is the pizza I grew up loving -- not deep dish.
• Google creates tribute to Apollo 11's Margaret Hamilton
  Solar panels reflecting moonlight as bitmap art.
• I’m an Engineer, and I’m Not Buying Into ‘Smart’ Cities
  "We should redirect some of that energy toward building excellent dumb cities — cities planned and built with best-in-class, durable approaches to infrastructure and the public realm."
• Gentlemen’s Club
  The architecture of strip clubs. Boxy, unadorned, and usually pink. Lots of parking.
• Learning Synths
  Excellent in-browser introduction to sound synthesis.
• Mickey Kapp, Who Made Mixtapes for Astronauts, Dies at 88
  I would have DJ battled for this role.