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The Mars Desert Research Station in south-east Utah. Photograph: Cassandra KlosTo study life on the red planet, people from around the world volunteer to live with strangers in the middle of nowhere by J Oliver ConroyThe Mars weather is beautiful today, and an astronaut is about to suffocate to death under the cloudless blue sky. The trouble starts after three crew members leave the safety of the Hab, their pressurized six-person living station, and venture outside to do some routine work.

Critics have funny timing. They pick on The Avengers for being “cynical” when it was written and directed by a guy who loves the Marvel universe so much that he actually scripted comic books featuring the same characters — it might be the only film of its ilk that isn’t cynical. Now reviewers have turned their big guns on the board-game-inspired, Navy-versus-aliens saga Battleship, which certainly is a cynical piece of manufacturing, but it’s also one of the more enjoyably terrible movies of the year — not to mention a much-needed morale booster for the Navy, which hasn’t seen much combat during our ongoing campaigns in various deserts and isolated mountain ranges.

ComedyReviewO2 Arena, London Routines about rude Parisians and airline seats should have passed their tell-by date long ago – but Noah’s skill reanimates the fun Trevor Noah opens with a joke about taking photos then and now. Today it’s all “picture picture picture, delete delete delete”. Back then it was invite your friends round to survey the hallowed holiday album. The joke returned to mind 90 minutes into Noah’s set, when it dawned on me that Off the Record is a holiday album, in which the South African shares with us observations and adventures (buying clothes in Paris; a trip to the Taj Mahal) from his world tour so far.

A golf pro’s path to greatness isn’t one they tread on alone. Along the way, many have helped them. And perhaps the most important and underappreciated is their caddie. A good caddie often leads to a successful pro, and any golfer would agree with that. This week, as the PGA Tour pros take to the course in Florida for the Players Championship, their caddies, of course, go with them. And seeing the caddies at all these tour events has made fans wonder how much they get paid.

It was only a matter of time. Rain drop, drop top, 2017 coming in hot hot. Truly, is there a better way to ring in the year than with a new entry into the Hot 100’s Top 10 that was lifted by the strength of a meme? Just as 2016 ended with the internet strongly influencing the Billboard charts, 2017 is off to an almost identical start. With Rae Sremmurd’s mannequin-challenge-driven “Black Beatles” back at No.

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Bey and Ed on stage. Ed Sheeran is, like, really famous, you guys. And this is just how famous he is: He told Jimmy Fallon that he hung out with Jay Z and Beyoncé on Sunday night, after they attended his show at Barclays Center. Since they were in our natural habitat, Vulture decided to go to Houndstooth Pub to investigate. It’s a midtown establishment that has become Sheeran’s go-to spot after Gary Lightbody, better known as the lead vocalist from Snow Patrol, took Sheeran there a couple of years ago, following their performance at Madison Square Garden.

Daft Punk has announced their split after nearly three decades together. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with writer Simon Reynolds about the legacy of the electronic music duo. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7r7zRZ6arn19nfXN9jmlpaGpiZIZ4fJFwb29pZmSyrbHCramoppmYeq7B0qKaZpylpHqlrcWtZKmtnqB6orrNqKynm5WoerS8y6KrZpmWqbKzec2emKukqWKAbrDEnJidnaM%3D

Redeem now National Institutes of Health Colorblindness is a fairly common condition where a person's eyes conflate certain colors or don't see colors at all. It's also way more common in men than in women. But why? The most commons forms of colorblindness are genetic conditions, passed along the x-chromosome. People with an x-chromosome and a y-chromosome only need their one x to be defective to catch it.