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• Love Your Mother? Give Her a Mommagram

  
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  Theres a reason they tell you to put the oxygen mask on yourself first when youre on an airplane with a child. You cant help the kid if youre passed out. Ladies, lets be honest. Who among us would really do that? We are hard-wired to take care of others first, then with the scraps and dregs of our energy and time, we ...
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• The Growth of Interstellar Organizations

  
  Centauri Dreams — Authority: 133
  The British Interplanetary Society was founded way back in 1933, and included such luminaries as Arthur C. Clarke and Val Cleaver among its early membership. The Institute for Interstellar Studies (I4IS), also based in London, was founded in 2012 and is not, to the best of my knowledge, yet incorporated. Between ...
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• Death Penalty Dying Out

  
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  Most of the worlds governments no longer use the death penalty.  Among wealthy nations there is one exception remaining.  The United States is among the top five killers in the world.  Also in the top five: the recently "liberated" Iraq. But most of the United States 50 states no longer use the death penalty.  ...
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• High Home Ownership Can Seriously Damage Labor Market – Study

  
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  Government policies that boost the amount of home ownership in a country are likely to inflict severe damage on the labour market, new research from the University of Warwick suggests. Professor Andrew Oswald from the University of Warwick and Professor David Blanchflower from Dartmouth College examine a century of ...
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• Update on Starship Century Symposium

  
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  We had a successful launch last night of the ESTCube-1 satellite from Kourou, about which more tomorrow when I’ll be talking about electric sails and their uses both interplanetary and interstellar. But this morning, with the Starship Century Symposium rapidly approaching, I wanted to run this overview, which ...
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• Robert Goddard’s Interstellar Migration

  
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  Astronautics pioneer Robert H. Goddard is usually thought of in connection with liquid fuel rockets. It was his test flight of such a rocket in March of 1926 that demonstrated a principle he had been working on since patenting two concepts for future engines, one a liquid fuel design, the other a staged rocket using ...
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• Starship Musings: Warping to the Stars

  
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  by Kelvin F.Long The executive director of the Institute for Interstellar Studies here gives us his thoughts on Star Trek and the designing of starships, with special reference to Enrico Fermi. Kelvin is also Chief Editor for the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, whose latest conference is coming up. ...
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• Yes, Virginia, There Really Are Bullies

  
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  Certain topics seem to wax and wane. Bullying is one. It has come around again, which is fine with me since it is a topic I care a lot about . But what I have noticed is that it is rare to come across a balanced handling of the issue. There are two extremes: those who see bullying where it is not, and those who ...
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• Starship Congress Registration Opens

  
  Centauri Dreams — Authority: 133
  Our friends at Icarus Interstellar continue working on this summer’s conference. Just in from my son Miles is news about the opening of registration for the Dallas event. Registration for the 2013 Starship Congress , hosted by Icarus Interstellar, is now open. The registration fee is $100; however, the first 25 ...
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• Mexico: Abolish “Arraigo” Detention From Constitution, Says HRW

  
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  Mexico’s congress should reject a proposed constitutional change on preventive detention, Human Rights Watch said today. The proposed change, which would reduce the maximum preventive detention period from 80 days to 40, would not meet international human rights standards. Instead, Mexico’s Congress should move to ...
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• Local Color

  
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  Writing coaches recommend that writers use local color in their stories to make them come alive. Every location, real or fictional, has unique sounds, sights and flavors. The characters in a story dont live in a generic town; they live in a town in a particular place where the stench of the swamp permeates when the ...
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• Starship Century Symposium May 21-22

  
  Centauri Dreams — Authority: 133
  The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination is launching in May with what it describes as a ‘series of perspectives’ on what we can expect in the coming century. Its inaugural symposium begins on May 14 at the University of California at San Diego with discussions on design, artificial intelligence, ...
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• So What Is It? Are Video Games Bad Or Good For Your Memory? – (Video)

  
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  After the horrific shooting sprees at Columbine High School in 1999 and Virginia Tech in 2007, players of violent video games, such as First Person Shooter (FPS) games, have often been accused in the media of being impulsive, antisocial, or aggressive. Positive effects However, the question is: do First Person Shooter ...
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• Cellphone Battery Low? Try Giving It Some Water

  
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  Forget looking for an electricity outlet to power up that cellphone — a power source for your mobile phone can now be as close as the nearest tap, stream, or even a puddle, with the world’s first water-activated charging device. Based on micro fuel cell technology developed at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in ...
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• New Earth-Like Planets Found

  
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  NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water. The Kepler-62 system has five planets; 62b, 62c, 62d, 62e ...
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