Reality Checks: Naked-Eye Nova, Climate Change “Waste,” Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic, and the Physics of Basketball

• Check out a nova with the naked eye while you can! (via io9)
• House Republicans call the military’s research into climate change a “waste.” (via The Washington Post)
• People are freaking out because some kids said the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic. (via Think Progress)
• For March Madness, the physics of basketball. (via Empirical Zeal)

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