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• Hacked Emails are the Smoking Gun Revealing the Fraud of Manmade Global Warming

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  Try as they might these "scientists" just couldnt make their model for warming match with reality!400 years ago, in 1609, Galileo Galilei, who physicist Stephen Hawking hails as "perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science," designed one of the first telescopes. He used ...
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• Strange Story of the Day

  
  Broadway Carl's Blog-O-Mania — Authority: 138
  Definitely a WTF moment : Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galileis corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday. But heres my favorite part: Galileo, who died in 1642, ...
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  The Frugal Chariot — Authority: 126
  The Moons of JupiterOn Thanksgiving eve I had the opportunity to view the moons of Jupiter. Ed, my brother-in-law, set up his high powered astronomical binoculars on the deck of the house that he and my Sister, Robbie, built here in Spring Creek, Nevada. With the aid of these binoculars we were able to view Jupiter ...
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• Meditation XXI, René Descartes (1596-1650) – Meditations on the First Philosophy, and “Objections and Replies”

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 128
  René Descartes~ When two people meet, they unconsciously affect one another in ways the mind cannot even begin to comprehend. The meeting may be brief and uneventful with nothing fruitful happening as a result of it. But the die is cast and the wheels of time have turned. The present as we know it is [...]
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• Custom EBSCOhost Mobile Links Now Available in GALILEO

  
  Georgia Library Media Association — Authority: 118
  Dear GALILEO Users, Beginning today, you will find the following custom EBSCOhost Mobile links appearing in  GALILEO: - EBSCOhost Mobile Academic http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbda -EBSCOhost Mobile Espanol http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbdb -EBSCOhost Mobile Public Library ...
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• Political Reality Shifting Under Conservatives’ Feet … Again

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  Those of you with feelings in your guts that attitudes toward same-sex marriage will never change may want to visit the doctor and have your guts checked. Jeffrey Lax and Justin Phillips have a great new paper out in the American Political Science Review in which they track in various ways the changing attitudes of ...
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• Hey Oh, Galileo!

  
  Potspoon! — Authority: 407
  This was too interesting to not post on this blog. In 1737, three fingers and a bottom tooth were removed from the corpse of Galileo. This was 95 years after his death while his body was being moved from storage to a monumental resting place (picture at left). The tooth, with two of the three fingers, were sealed in ...
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• Museum claims Galileo fingers, tooth found

  
  Pakistan Views — Authority: 153
  Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei’s corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday. Three fingers, a vertebra and a tooth were removed from the astronomer’s body by admirers ...
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• Mob Mentality and Marching to Your Own Drummer

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 432
  I found an exceptionally insightful article by Kiplinger.com’s Bob Frick titled “Don’t Trust the Crowd if you Value the Truth.”What’s scary about the herd mentality is how insidiously it gets you to see things differently. In fact, a recent experiment showed that we may actually be hard-wired to believe ...
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• Galileo’s Fingers and Tooth Have Been Found

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 154
  Wont find too many of these lying around! Stop looking people, Galileo’s fingers and tooth have been found! Yes, thats right after friggin 270 odd years of being detached  they have  finally been  found. Galileo, who pissed off the Vatican by saying the earth revolved around the sun died in 1642, but 95 years ...
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• Galileo’s finger points across the centuries

  
  Art Scatter — Authority: 465
  Art Scatter’s cup runneth over. Well, it’s not our cup, actually; it belongs to the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze in Florence, Italy. And that papery-looking swizzle stick inside? If researchers are correct, it’s the finger of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), the great astronomer, ...
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• The Other End of the Telescope

  
  Mind Over Mullis — Authority: 112
  I have it on good authority (Wikipedia or The Smoking Gun, I can’t remember which) that sometimes when people make discoveries or craft clever inventions that could change the face of the world, they irresponsibly share their findings with other people instead of keeping the whole thing to themselves to pass off to ...
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• Museum Finds Astronomer Galileo’s Lost Body Parts

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 593
  From BBC News Two fingers and a tooth belonging to famed astronomer Galileo Galilei have been found more than 100 years after going missing, a museum in Italy says. A collector bought the items, lost since 1905, at auction and gave them to Florence’s History of Science Museum. The museum said it had no doubt ...
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• Why do we refer to Galileo Galilei by his first name?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 650
  Why do we refer to Galileo Galilei by his first name? Seems unconventional.
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• Museum of the History of Science in Florence to Show Fingers, Tooth Said to be Galileos

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 155
  In this image provided by Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze shows a finger attributed to Galileo Galilei. A Florence museum says, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, two fingers and a tooth believed to belong to Galileo Galilei have been found and will go on display next spring. AP Photo/Istituto e Museo di ...
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• Misteri fiorentini: dopo cento anni ritrovati due dita e un dente di Galileo

  
  DaringToDo.com — Authority: 146
  Hanno tutto il valore simbolico delle reliquie, reliquie laiche, le due dita e il dente di Galileo Galilei ritrovati a Firenze da un anonimo collezionista. Asportati dalla salma nel 1737 durante la traslazione nella basilica di Santa Croce, erano scomparse da oltre un secolo, poi la fortunata scoperta, confermata da ...
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• IRONY SENSED AS GLOBAL WARMINISTAS TWIST ON THE FICKLE FINGER OF FATE

  
  Theo Spark — Authority: 643
  Anybody who doesnt know whats going on here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . check STORMBRINGER Sorry Theo - I couldnt resist that headline . . . . . . . . Linnane Sends
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• Galileo’s lost fingers, tooth found

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov 21 (ANI): Father of astronomy Galileo Galilei’s missing fingers and a tooth have been found again.Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of the History of Science, has said that admirers removed three fingers, a vertebra and a tooth from his corpse in a Florentine basilica 1737.Ninety-five years after ...
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• Galileos (other) Finger, Tooth, and Thumb Have Been Found

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 782
  It’s been a long and undoubtedly strange journey for Galileo Galilei’s various body parts.  Some of you will recall that when his body was reinterred in 1737,  his middle finger was removed , along with several other body parts.  The finger and a vertebra have been stored (and displayed) in museums in Florence ...
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• World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Galileo’s Body Parts to Be on Display

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei’s corpse in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, a Florence museum said Friday.
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