Best Practices re: Bereavement

These stories are about outlier cases, sure. That they happen at all? Still worth knowing about.


https://www.upworthy.com/bereavement-leave-for-new-hire

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3

I may have been premature in assuming that Season 3 will not be available on CTV Sci-Fi Channel.

I may have misunderstood. I just checked the PVR's "Guide" function to look ahead to Thursday night. I saw short blurbs for "Hegemony II" and "Wedding Bell Blues".

I'll know for sure on Thursday night, it seems.

Exoplanets: L 98-59 and the Argument Over Five Vs. Six Planets

This system's about 34 light-years away.

This paper argues for five:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09343

This one argues for six:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06413

If I understand what I'm reading correctly.

For Trek purposes? Romulan territory until the supernova that burns Romulus and Remus is my guess.

http://hygmap.space/index.php?select_star=853855&select_center=1&u=ly

For Marvel, DC, Honorverse, Babylon 5, Galaxy Quest, Alien, Traveller, or anything else? I dunno yet. (Well, maybe Solarian League for the Honorverse? Do I want to keep caring about that anymore?)