Spacewalking astronauts upgrade station with new batteries

NASA reported that all three lithium-ion batteries were up and running, a successful start to the space agency’s long-term effort to upgrade the aging solar power system. Before venturing out, Commander Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson got a hand from a robot that took care of most of the grunt work – Dextre, a hulking machine with 11-foot arms.

Learning to Live with Less Meat

In my youth, meat was never the star of any meal. Perhaps it was my father’s parsimonious rural upbringing, but his extreme interpretation of home economics didn’t suffer any budding meatmouth among his brood.