Blog Heap of Links for the day 7 August 2015

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Language Culture

If you’re one of those people who packs like a weekend warrior every time you head on a camping trip, you can blame the English language.

Those word-birthing Romans conquered half of Europe around the year zero and everywhere they went, they saw only open countryside: what they called campus.…

8:59am CDT Fri 2015 Aug 7 :MW

Solar System

A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. The series of test images shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth.…

8:57am CDT Fri 2015 Aug 7 :MW