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Evidence Emerges That Laws of Physics Are Not Fine-Tuned For Life
via Technology Review The value of the cosmological constant suggests that the laws of nature could not have been fine-tuned for life by an omnipotent being, says a cosmologist KFC 01/18/2011 One of the more curious debates in science focuses on the laws of physics and why they seem fine-tuned for life. The problem is…
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NASA – Year in Review, 2010
Part One Part Two Both episodes are available as audio or video streams. Let’s think “positive” for the year(s) ahead!
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Santa Claus risks health by flying all night, sleep experts warn
via Physorg Every year Santa Claus and his team of elves and reindeers stay awake for days and nights so he can deliver presents to children all over the world for Christmas – but he could be putting his and their health at risk. Sleep experts Professor Franco Cappuccio and Dr. Michelle Miller, from University…
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Global Eruption Rocks the Sun
via NASA Science On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into space. Astronomers knew they had witnessed something big. It was so big, it may have shattered old ideas about solar activity.…
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Trivia Thursday
In this classic short story by Arthur C. Clarke, the remnants of a now-destroyed civilization are found within the Phoenix Nebula, the leftovers of a supernova that was once visible from Earth. Name it! The play “A Dixie Christmas Carol,” an adaptation of Dickens’ classic tale, was written by what well-known SF author? In Allen…
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It’s Life, Jim, But Not as We Know It
NASA issued a coy little update on Monday about an astrobiology study that would “impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life” and that the journal Science would have the full story. Speculation was rampant that maybe they had discovered life on another planet,* but although that doesn’t appear to be the case, NASAWatch and…
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If You’re a Female Star Wars Fan…
…you need to go over to Portrait of an Adoption. Katie is a first-grader who loves Star Wars, but after taking her prized Star Wars water bottle to school for a few days, she began to have second thoughts. She wailed, “The first grade boys are teasing me at lunch because I have a Star…
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A Century of Mars in the Movies
via Condor Conventions newsletter: Since 1910, when Thomas Alva Edison photographed ³A Trip to Mars², the red planet Mars has been a favorite topic of over 130 feature films. San Diego resident Gerry Williams, creator of the MarsMovieGuide. com, takes us on a multimedia tour of some of the best (as well as the worst)…
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ISS 10th Anniversary
via twitter.com/NASA ISS 10th anniversary programming on NASA TV throughout the day http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
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Any excuse!
For the love of chocolate: by Marissa de Crom, FYI Want to cut your risk of heart disease in half? Try eating a little chocolate each day. That’s right chocolate lovers, indulge! Consuming moderate amounts of the popular treat is associated with reduced incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD), as reported in a study recently…