Twenty years later, Flamsteed would again obstruct scientific progress by refusing to publish his by now huge amount of accumulated data, in the form of star charts for the use of sea captains.

BBC: A Point of View: Crowd-sourcing comets

Columnist Army Archerd reports that the "Home Improvement" star has told the president of Walt Disney Pictures that "20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is his favorite film of all time.

CNN: The Hollywood Minute

In scientific terms, probably the most significant effect of the Sea Empress spill has been felt by a tiny creature known as the brooding cushion-star, or Asterina phylactica to those in the know.

BBC: News | UK | West Wales recovering from 'environmental disaster'

In one room James Caird, the show's star exhibit, floats like a little white iceberg in a sea of video screens showing towering computer-generated breakers, in imitation of the heaving surface of the Southern Ocean.

ECONOMIST: Antarctic exploration