Many of the recent discoveries by the Hubble Space Telescope have been "named" with numbers. Gone are the poetic, mythic names like Milky Way or Andromeda or Pegasus. Let's have some fun and help NASA out and create names for these awesome celestial objects. We'll select your best submissions and send them off to NASA headquarters. …
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You Name the Cosmos!
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GPS for the Moon -Helping Humans Navigate the Lunar Surface
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/gps-for-the-moo.htmlWhen the new iPhone was finally released this year, one of its top new features was the built-in GPS functionality. One of the criticisms was that it had taken so long for Apple to install such a device in the iPhone, so dependant are we upon the technology now. …
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What Do Your Genes Say About You? The Future of Personal Genomics
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/what-do-your-ge.htmlWant to know what your genes say about you? According to geneticists, your genes could be saying quite a lot! Your genetics may dictate, for example, what foods you like, what diseases you are prone to develop, how smart you are, and likely factor into nearly every aspect of your being. …
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The Death of HAL –the Evolving Digital Ecosystem
http://www.worldofwarcraft-news.com/wow/the-death-of-hal-%e2...can see it coming a mile away. However British Computer Society President and ECS Professor of Artificial Intelligence Nigel Shadbolt, believes differently. Shadbolt believes that the future of artificial intelligence will be much di Original post by Danger Room - Wired Blogs Need WOW Guide? Click Here
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Tiny Mantras
http://tzt.blogspot.comThe Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
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CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Going Colder than Outer Space
http://www.yourgenuineidea.com/2008/07/23/cerns-large-hadron...around inside the LHC; questions such as “are there extra dimensions indicated by theoretical gravitons?” and “what is the nature of dark matter and dark energy?” Posted by Josh Hill. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7512586.stm CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Going Colder than Outer Space
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CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Going ‘Colder than Outer Space’
http://commenturl.com/2008/07/23/cerns-large-hadron-collider...http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/cerns-large-had.html
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JoshSHill.com
http://www.joshshill.comOnly a week after author and Washington Post columnist Michael Benson theorized that the International Space Station should become an interplanetary vehicle, the Heads of the International Space Station (ISS) Agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met Friday at ESA Headquarters in Paris, France, to review ISS cooperation. In a
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“White nights” and mutants
http://crossderry.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/white-nights-and-...by with no shut-eye at all. The mutation – in a gene that controls how brain cells fire and now dubbed Sleepless – suggests that, at the most basic level, sleep is caused by a slowdown in certain neurons. Hat tip: Josh Hill at The Daily Galaxy (here)
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"White nights" and mutants
http://www.scienceguide.net/white-nights-and-mutantsby with no shut-eye at all. The mutation – in a gene that controls how brain cells fire and now dubbed Sleepless – suggests that, at the most basic level, sleep is caused by a slowdown in certain neurons. Hat tip: Josh Hill at The Daily Galaxy (here)
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Science Fair: Projects, Energy, NASA & the Weird- USATODAY.com
http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair!) ... An interesting discussion of gender, mating, and race ... Christopher Hitchens says blind salamanders are something Ann Coulter can't explain as intelligent design ... Ouch, this hurts my head: If the Earth is in a void, we may not need dark matter anymore ... This violinist creates impossible violin sounds ... Should science study changes or fight them? ... Some health myths I fell for too ... Open science wants to get everyone involved in solving thorny problems ...
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Impact
http://2kj.com/?p=10Affectionately yours until next Thursday, Lilith P.S. However, nuclear is still only two syllables, not three. Sorry George. RELATED LINKS Wikipedia.com – Impact Wiktionary.com - Impact WordSpy World Wide Words Asteroid Impacts In-situ Measurements of Particles and CME Transients (IMPACT)
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