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Viruses of the Mind
Viruses of the Mind by Richard Dawkins 1991 – source The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make … Continue reading
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State of the Union, What we REALLY should be doing in Iraq
Surge Upside the Head That’s what the Bush needs, a big surge upside the head. The president gave a speech last night to the nation about why he thinks sending 21,500 additional troops to Iraq is a good idea. He … Continue reading
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Space Ballad called “Spacewalker”
Nihar Patel’s hobby is singing-songwriter apart from job at NPR News. Apparently as homage to the Discovery STS-116 mission he wrote a song. The lyrics and vocals are from Mr. Patel and the music is from The Alan Parsons Project. … Continue reading
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Green Advertising Trends for 2007
One of the world’s largest advertiser released a list that contains what they think are going to be the top 70 coolest products, services and trends. On the list there are a number of green related things listed among the … Continue reading
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Silicon Optical Communications
IBM has built a device that will slow the speed of light, thus buffering it on a silicon chip. This is an important step towards using light signals instead of electrical for moving data on computer chips. While there is … Continue reading
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STS-116 Flight Day 2
Here are some panoramic images of the Space Shuttle’s Wings and Nose Cone by Avron at nasaspaceflight.com, a publicly available website. They were done by taking screen grabs from NASA TV.
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Teachers Choose Money Over Truth
The producers of An Inconvenient Truth offered American classrooms up to 50,000 copies of their movie for free but they were rejected over fears that it would piss off Exxon-Mobil, one of the National Science Teachers Association biggest supporters. So … Continue reading
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Do you explode in Space?
Apparently not according to Damn Interesting. The key to surviving in space for up to two minutes is to exhale before decompression. The next time I am jettisoned I’ll keep this in mind. They photoshoped a great pic of armstrong, … Continue reading
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Lost Moon Tapes Discovered
Lost Moon landing tapes discovered | COSMOS magazine They were nearly thrown out with the rubbish. But a last minute search instead has scientists in Western Australia dusting off several boxes of ‘lost’ NASA tapes which record surface conditions on … Continue reading
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No Winner at the Space Elevator Games
The Space Elevator Reference: Space Elevator Games Over for this Year Well the Space Elevator Games are over and there was no winner in either the Climber (Power Beaming) Competition or the Tether Strength Competition. In the Climber competition the … Continue reading
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