Everyone else shifted uncomfortably as this guy continued his derisive laughter and proclaimed my quest the most idiotic thing he'd heard in his life.

notā, sg. imp. form of notō, “I mark”

[…]these days there is a long tradition of ships named Warspite, most famously the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, but when you actually look at the etymology of the name, it is literally war's spite, the spite of war, which, again, is, um, a little bit on the nose for a ship full of nuclear death.

The present team is being led by Dr. Ajay Dhar from the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, a veteran Antarctician […]