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Science Stuff

This video is like a multivitamin for your Sense of Wonder

December 21, 2009 It's a SciFi World

(cross-posted via Posterous)

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Cooking: humanity’s ‘killer app’”?

February 22, 2009 Food

As reported in The Economist, Harvard’s Richard Wrangham has a theory that “cooking and other forms of preparing food are humanity’s ‘killer app’”:
Cooking is a human universal. No society is without it. No one other than a few faddists tries to survive on raw food alone. And the consumption of a cooked meal in the [...]

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“And oh how they danced!”

January 24, 2009 Science Stuff

BLDGBLOG: Stonehenge Beneath the Waters of Lake Michigan.
(via VSL)

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Spacehack

January 15, 2009 Science Stuff

If you’re like me and terrible at math and wear glasses and anyway too afraid to go up in space strapped to a giant fireball:
Spacehack.

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Now that’s a deep infield

January 6, 2009 It's a SciFi World

Ever wonder just how far the astronauts of Apollo 11 went on their historic moonwalks? You’ve seen a baseball diamond, right? Well…

Nice.
(via Kottke’s “The Best Links 2008″)

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Five Years on Mars!

January 3, 2009 Science Stuff

Spirit landed on Mars five years ago today. I recall being overcome with emotion when it landed, watching the joy of the crew at the JPL, knowing that the human race had sunk a jump shot from millions of miles away.
These Mars rovers rekindled my imagination and belief in an American space program. Let’s hope [...]

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“The Universe, Yours to Discover”

January 2, 2009 Science Stuff

The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) will be a global celebration of astronomy and its contributions to society and culture, highlighted by the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei. The aim of the Year is to stimulate worldwide interest, especially among young people, in astronomy and science under [...]

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