The Santa Ana winds were already blowing hard when I ran the first worm simulation. I’m no hacker, but it was easy enough: Open a Terminal shell, paste some commands from GitHub, watch ...

Also found on a submarine canyon floor: a deep-sea worm sometimes called a "disco worm," but scientifically known as a polychaete (which means “many bristles”), glittering like sparkly steel wool.

There wasn’t much chance that I would be awake to see the total eclipse of the blood worm moon, which was visible late last Thursday night or early Friday morning, depending on the time zone.