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In discussing the specific sound of “Moon” recently with Switched on Pop’s Charlie Harding, I realized that both it and “Stay” are channeling a specific flavor of early-90s pop that gives me an instant serotonin boost.

From Vox

The Cold Moon, Rosenblatt explains at the onset, is the last moon before the winter solstice, a fitting metaphor as he embraces “the coming of my wintertime of life.”

For decades, Arecibo was uniquely capable of studying the atmosphere and objects in space in ways no other instruments could, especially when it came to making radar observations of distant planets, moons, and near-Earth asteroids.

Hopefully it’s setting the stage, one of those first steps to getting us to the Moon and on to Mars.

From Fortune

NASA’s Europa Clipper probe may be able to observe this same phenomenon when it reaches the distant moon in a few years—and perhaps use it to investigate whether Europa has conditions amenable for life.

If only there were  pictures of William mooning the year of royal nudity would be complete.

Memo to the GOP caucus, however: mooning your opponents and screeching “freedom” is not enough to guarantee victory.

"I've been mooning about the moor all the afternoon and lost myself twice," she explained between frank mouthfuls.

But I lost no time mooning over my lost chance to dine with royalty, for that afternoon I was going to meet Wells.

Im mooning, she announced, turning her curly head as Ronny entered, her eyes very bright.

Nay, I am no cold-blooded theorist, no thick-hided dogmatist; nor am I a chastely simple young man mooning in virginal innocence.

A fellow of my age, with an ordinary share of brains, to go on dreaming and mooning over such sentimental nonsense!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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