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• Tour the Griffith with Leonard Nimoy

  
  The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log — Authority: 619
  If you’ve got several grand to spare the world-famous Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles is auctioning a guided tour of the iconic facility (seen in many films and shows) – the tour guide for the occasion being none other than Leonard Nimoy. Now that would be quite brilliant. Bidding is already in excess of $5, ...
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• Taylor Swift – Country Music Awards Winner! ROCK BAND FAIL!

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 175
  LOVE YOU FOR WATCHING! Please rate /comment/fave/share?! I hope you subscribe for more!! Comment Question of the Day: 1. Do you prefer What the Buck Shows that are 2 mins or 10? (or 5?) 2
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• Half Naked Flashing Lights Lady and My stupid Vlog

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 175
  Check out LTAs Review of 2012 and subscribe!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdcXUqrn29c Check out the main channel: http://youtube.com/sXePhil
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• Stellar Lithium as an Indicator for Exoplanets

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 133
  Typically astronomers do not have a clear idea of which stars are best candidates for exoplanet searches. Last week in Nature, astronomers with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced that they believe they have discovered a proxy for stars that have orbiting planets. As the lead author of the paper, Garik ...
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• Annual Leonids Meteor Shower This Week

  
  Sierra Blogging Post — Authority: 430
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• RIP, Snips Padawan

  
  Los Angelista's Guide To The Pursuit Of Happiness — Authority: 426
  Our hamster Snips (full name Snips Padawan) died late Friday night. Snips has been the best pet: totally social and playful, falling asleep in laps, riding around on shoulders. She hung out with me so much she learned how to use my BlackBerry and my laptop. I decided not to tell my children about her death in the ...
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• Herschel Space Observatory – Time Magazine’s Best Inventions

  
  Zero Gravity — Authority: 449
  Time Magazine has released its list of the 50 Best Inventions of 2009 .  It’s worth checking out – tons of interesting stuff. Topping the list is NASA’s Ares Rocket. Yay!  And the Herschel Space Observatory is also on it, which happens to be the subject of our latest video for Time.com. Herschel is a ...
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• Ghostland Observatory - Crystal Ballroom (Portland, OR; Nov. 8, 2009)

  
  melophobe - concert reviews and concert photos — Authority: 532
  When a band grows beyond the confines of its hometown scene to national prominence, it can make for a disorienting experience for the fans that were there from the beginning. The urge to proudly announce to the world that you were into them before they were cool vies, almost inevitably, with indignation for what fame ...
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• Extrasolar planet confirmed to have highly tilted orbit

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 717
  Washington, November 14 (ANI): Two teams of astronomers have found that extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b, discovered in 2008, has a retrograde or highly tilted orbit. On May 30, 2009, a Japanese collaboration team led by Norio Narita (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) used the Subaru Telescope’s High Dispersion ...
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• Plimer, “Balance as Bias” Back in Climate Coverage

  
  CJR — Authority: 575
  That old nuisance, “balance as bias,” cropped up in the press again on Thursday in an article in the Telegraph about the theories of climate skeptic Ian Plimer, an Australian geologist. There isn’t even the pretense of a news peg. For some reason, the paper’s environment correspondent, Louise Gray, decided ...
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• Vatican Says Aliens Are OK, Is E.T. Disclosure Imminent?

  
  Blippitt.com — Authority: 599
  The Vatican just wrapped up a five day conference on astrobiology where some of the worlds greatest scientists gathered to discuss the detection and implications of extraterrestrial life, i.e.: aliens. The man who was the impetus for this conference was Director of the Vatican Observatory, Father Jose Gabriel Funes ...
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• Deadmau5 + Ghostland Observatory + Burns Giveaway

  
  Hot Biscuits — Authority: 426
  So this is a pretty big show. Deadmau5, Ghostland Observatory, Burns AND local fan favorite, Kid Color , are coming together for the Mau5’s For Lack of A Better Name album release tour. When an event so momentous comes along, it’s only fitting to do an equally as exciting giveaway. So instead of just giving ...
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• On Canada, Clocks, and Conan Doyle

  
  The Phantom Observer — Authority: 422
  Probably the biggest surprise I got, visiting the Royal Observatory and National Maritime Museum in Greenwich , was the statue of General Wolfe. As in “Plains of Abraham” General Wolfe. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting to encounter Canadiana during my vacation. And yet, there he was , right beside the ...
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• The Fate of Former P-I Employees

  
  CJR — Authority: 575
  Ruth Teichroeb, who worked as an investigative reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1997 until its demise in March, is not done investigating. On Wednesday she published a survey on her ironically titled blog, Safety Net, of what has become of her former colleagues in the last nine months. It’s not ...
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• TiLT: “love and light and fuck you”

  
  NoTitles: still thinking — Authority: 117
  43 Creative Ways to Reuse or Recycle Your Old Yoga Mat on Daily Cup of Yoga Gala Darling’s style tips this week were great, especially this suggestion: Decide to devote your week to romance of all forms. Love for other people, for your home, & most importantly, for yourself. Draw a big heart on a Post-It ...
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• Leonid meteor shower peaks Tuesday, Nov. 17

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 557
  The Leonid meteor shower best viewing this year will be in the hours before dawn on Nov. 17, according to the editors of StarDate magazine.Meteors appear to fall from the constellation Leo. High-resolution images and HD video are available.There is uncertainty on the intensity of this years shower. Viewers will ...
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• Auction Report: Astronomical Regulator, Henry Rifle Pace Cottone Auctions Sale

  
  WorthPoint — Authority: 131
  This rare .44 caliber Henry rifle, purchased by the U.S. Government for use during the Civil War, sold for $48,300 at an sale held by Cottone Auctions in August. GENESEO, N.Y. – A vintage E. Howard & Co. (Boston) Astronomical Observatory Regulator clock soared to $52,900 and a rare and antique Henry rifle ...
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• No Night Without A Telescope Is No Dark Matter

  
  The Bi-College News Online — Authority: 138
  By Malisa Smith "If you have never looked through a decent telescope before, you have no idea of the amount of detail that is in space," said Haverford’s Professor of Astronomy, Bruce Partridge. "The eye itself cannot see the colors of most stars, but if you magnify space with a telescope you can…see all sorts of ...
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• Viva Voce

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 128
  Just back from a flying visit to the beautiful city of Edinburgh, where I was involved in the examination of a PhD candidate at the Institute for Astronomy , which is housed on the site of the Royal Observatory . For those of you not familiar with how this works, a PhD involves doing research into a particular ...
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• AMNH Hosts 33rd Annual Margaret Mead Film Festival

  
  CJR — Authority: 575
  Science news aficionados that are passing through New York City this week should check out the thirty-third Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, which kicks off at the American Museum of Natural History Thursday night and runs through Sunday. Named after the famed cultural anthropologist, a former assistant ...
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