A Quick and Sad Forensic Science Note

As a sidebar to the Yonge Street massacre in Toronto last week: the identification of the dead operates more akin to what we've seen on Da Vinci's Inquest than any CSI branch series.

Sidebar comment on emoticons here on Dreamwidth: the emoticon for "contemplative" looks too "happy" for what's really going on.

Astronomy and Marvel

Marvel Comics locates the Kree Empire - you've been seeing some of their people in Guardians of the Galaxy and Agents of SHIELD, and soon in Captain Marvel - in the Greater Magellanic Cloud.

Turns out that Cloud spins like our own Milky Way does.