There is an organism living on this planet who can travel through space without a suit. Cute, unassuming little invertebrates, these organisms are called tardigrades, or water bears, and usually spend their days crawling around on a piece of nice wet moss in a forest, or meandering through our vast oceans. They only grow to be about 1.5 millimeters long, but over 1,000 species of them inhabit the planet, and they all have a superpower unmatched by any other species on Earth. No now knows why, but tardigrades can withstand temperatures as cold as liquid nitrogen, radiation doses that would kill a human 100 times over, thrive in an outer-space-like vacuum, and survive without water for years.
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Over the weekend, an industrial-age legend was blown up — literally — in Sheffield, England. The Tinsley water cooling towers, two hourglass-shaped, 250-foot-tall structures, were built almost 70 years ago as part of a long-demolished power plant. Several local artists tried to convert the abandoned structures into art projects, but the lonely hulks were instead blown up by a company that is replacing them with a biomass power station. Thousands of people gathered to watch the towers blown up, and now you can see the tragic carnage too.
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It's taken more than forty years, but J. Jonah Jameson has finally been proven right: Spider-Man is a public menace. At least, he is if you bought Sears' Spider-Man Water Bottles, which have now been labeled as potential choking hazards by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. The problem with the bottles, according to the CSPC? "Screws under the bottle's lid can come loose and fall into the cup, posing a choking hazard to children." Wait, what kind of bottle has screws under the lid? No wonder 
