links for 2009-04-22

via @StoweBoyd

"In the countryside of Finland, solitude is a national pastime"

Ha!

Interesting, but still not convinced if a rock at about 1AU is a requirement.

"The Holy Grail of current exoplanet research is the detection of a rocky, Earth-like planet in the 'habitable zone,'" said Michel Mayor, an astrophysicist at Geneva University in Switzerland."