Meanwhile, on the Interwebs... / June 9, 2014 by LoLC

As a member of the Young Astronauts club back in 1988, I pretty much assumed that building model rockets, visiting an observatory, and tasting freeze-dried ice cream were about as far as my cosmic inclinations would ever take me.

So I am both bewildered and thrilled to announce that The League's "sometimes-humorous but mostly-accurate" guide to the sky is today's Astronomy Picture of the Day over on the NASA-affiliated APOD site! The honor of being featured alongside galaxies and nebulae is, astonishingly, even cooler than those special lunch line passes of yore.

This NASAchievement caps a recent, inexplicable flurry of social media-fueled interest in The League that inundated me with so many Facebook notifications that I was sure I'd been hacked. To all my new fans: I'm sorry I thought you were robots. It's awesome that you're real, and thanks for joining the party!

NB: Original "Astronomy 101" post -- and links to its various translations (!) -- are here.

Things I Did Not Anticipate Needing to Write When I Awoke This Morning (or, Preteens Show Remarkably Poor Judgment) / January 31, 2014 by LoLC

(P.S. Don't worry, they'll probably be fine.)

And for those who want to wear this reminder around the lab, here you go.

I Guess I Should Read Up on Nanobots / September 23, 2013 by LoLC

ATTENTION AUNTS AND OTHER GRAMMAR FANATICS:

It's perfectly acceptable to end sentences with prepositions. I checked.

Astronomy 101 / August 13, 2013 by LoLC

Internet access is unreliable in the great outdoors! Reference this handy flow chart on tangible objects from the League Store.

18 TRANSLATIONS AND COUNTING! Thanks to the efforts of everyone who's helped expand the global footprint (eyeprint?) of this chart. All known versions are listed below and more are always welcome--feel free to get in touch via comment or the League's contact page.

Spanish, Italian, and Polish are here.
First Dravidian appearance: Tamil, here.
Joined shortly thereafter by Kannada, here.
Latvian joins in here.
Followed by Norwegian, featured here.
Arabic and Dutch are together, here.
Turkish, Hungarian, Portuguese and German versions are here, with only mild scolding.
A second, fully-authorized Turkish version can be found here.
Speak Greek? That one’s here.
Chinese and French join the collection here.
Hebrew is here.

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"SOMETIMES-HUMOROUS BUT MOSTLY-ACCURATE": In June 2014, this sky guide enjoyed some cosmically impressive company over on the NASA-affiliated Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) site and the League shared its excitement here. A repeat appearance in September 2017 was a pleasant surprise; ditto for a third in November 2021. Thanks for continuing to expand the League’s universe, APOD!