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NewsFusion for September 2017

Science...

• Brane Craft poised to collect space debris | Popular Science
• Farewell Cassini: mission to Saturn's last chapter | NASA JPL
• The physics of a hyperloop test run | Wired

Design...

• Elon Musk reveals full SpaceX spacesuit | CNBC
• Five must-see field trips during Helsinki Design Week | Dezeen
• Designing for our grandparents will be next big thing in design | Quartz

Culture...

• Nike steps up for female Muslim athletes with new Pro Hijab product | Fast Company: Co.Design
• LA City Council replaces Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day | LA Times
• Disney's Moana now available in Māori | Radio New Zealand

Cocktail Astronomy | Sweet on Saturn

Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute, Gordan Ugarkovic
Here at Future-ish, we love astronomy and we love cocktails. So to prep our fans (and ourselves) for those stellar weekend cocktail conversations, we are pleased to offer our Cocktail Astronomy post each Friday.

We all have crushes. Luckily, a cocktail can help us get past our inhibitions to perhaps even approach the object of our crush. Phil Plait, the blogger behind Bad Astronomy has no problem admitting his crush on Saturn. So it comes as no surprise that he was gushing after an image of Saturn was recently released from NASA's Cassini mission.

Don't worry Phil, we totally get it. Saturn is truly stunning in the photo (make sure to view the large, high res version) and we must admit, we have a little crush on Saturn too. The ethereal gaseous sphere, those beautiful rings, the dozens of intriguing moons, and that mysterious hexagon vortex above Saturn's north pole all make us more than a little sweet on Saturn.

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Cocktail pairing: What else? The 1967 IBA Cocktail Championship winner, the Saturn

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Cocktail Astronomy | Cassini Mission

Here at Future-ish, we love astronomy and we love cocktails. So to prep our fans (and ourselves) for those stellar weekend cocktail conversations, we are pleased to offer our Cocktail Astronomy post each Friday.

If there was an Oscar for best space footage (or perhaps we should say WHEN there is an Oscar for best space footage), Cassini Mission by Chris Abbas would win it. Furthermore, Abbas - along with Nine Inch Nails - might just get best score too since the track '2 Ghosts' from their album Ghosts I-IV provides the pitch perfect soundtrack to the stunning video. Cassini Mission features remixed Cassini Solstice Mission NASA and ESA images of Saturn and its moons jockeyed together by Abass, a Seattle-based designer/director. Abass also throws in a Carl Sagan quote in the video description:

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

So mix up your favorite cocktail, turn on the stereo and put this on the big screen, we can't think of a better way to get the weekend rolling than a fab video like this.