Today’ s news stories lead off with the quote: "We can’t fully constrain the parameters we need to estimate how many other lifeforms might be out there, as famously proposed by Frank Drake, but using our best estimates and simulations the current best answer to this is tens of thousands of possible civilizations out there." The stories include so-called “leaky” galaxies may have responsible for triggering the last great transformational epoch in our universe, one which ionized the neutral interstellar gas to The discovery of giant superclusters of galaxies are challenging our very understanding of the Universe.