At the start of every work day, I browse a short list of online resources to get a fresh sample of the happenings and themes of my universe (a teeny-tiny subset of the Universe) to get a new "gist" of everything, from my perspective.

Just for fun, I have posted a short list of web favorites for checking the state of
everything, with an apology to anyone who finds my collection old news. My suggestions appear under this web-like "visualization of the Universe as it condenses around fluctuations in the density of dark and ordinary matter," by Argonne National Laboratory.

Credit: Argonne National Laboratory, via Flickr.com