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• Planetary Society Sets Sail on New Solar Sail Project

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 142
  The Planetary Society today announced LightSail, a plan to sail a spacecraft on sunlight alone by the end of 2010. The new solar sail project, boosted by a one-million-dollar anonymous donation, was unveiled at an event on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C on the 75th anniversary of the birth of Planetary Society ...
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• Astronaut Godwin Reaches Out to Students

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 142
  From KansasCity.com It was a starstruck moment - their first autograph - but it wasnt a pop idol who excited these Overland Park girls. It was a small-town Missouri woman who worked in space. "I think its amazing that Ive gotten an autograph from someone so special, a female astronaut," said 11-year-old Disha ...
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• Make it a pub

  
  spreadingscience — Authority: 410
  [Crossposted at A Man with a PhD ] by gailf548 Participation Value and Shelf-Life for Journal Articles : [Via The Scholarly Kitchen ] Discussion forums built around academic journal articles haven’t seen much usage from readers. Lessons learned from the behavior of sports fans may provide some ...
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• Space Worms to Help in Muscle Atrophy Research

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 142
  Some 4,000 passengers are riding along with the crew of space shuttle Atlantis when it departs Earth later this month. The extra spaceflight participants are thousands of microscopic worms. Those worms are flying to help experts in human physiology understand more about what triggers the body to build, and also lose ...
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• A birthday present for Darwin | Andrew Copson

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 154
  The teaching of evolution in primary schools will be an important defence against the ignorance of intelligent design Its a great birthday present for Darwin in his 200th anniversary year. For the first time, evolution will be on the national curriculum for primary schools when the new version is published later ...
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• Interesting Links November 9 2009

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 545
  Welcome to this week’s collection of interesting links. Some of these I found on Twitter, some on various blogs, and some came by email from various people. I hope you find something useful here. The Innovative Teacher Network is now the new Partners in Learning Network , free public/private communities for ...
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• Scientists win place for evolution in primary schools

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The government is ready to put evolution on the primary curriculum for the first time after years of lobbying by senior scientists. The schools minister, Diana Johnson, has confirmed the plans will be included in a blueprint for a new curriculum to be published in the next few weeks. It follows a letter signed by ...
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• RP joins world review of science education policy

  
  Inside Science — Authority: 406
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• Uplifting News! Space Elevator Winner Claims $900,000 NASA Cash Prize

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 142
  The scene was NASAs Dryden Flight Research Center in Mojave, California. Three qualified teams were vying for cash prizes in NASAs Centennial Challenges Power Beaming program: Kansas City Space Pirates, LaserMotive of Kent, Washington, and a team from the University of Saskatchewan (USST). Claiming $900,000 in prize ...
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• Is Algebra Your Problem?

  
  The Transmission Outfit — Authority: 128
  It is algebra that we employ to get our everyday things done. The human beings forever continues counting, measuring, dividing, and multiplying. History of Algebra Invented in the first millennium BC, algebra was first invented in the middle-east. The ancient geniuses used algebra for solving daily problems while ...
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• Pre-Collegiate Faculty Connection Redesign

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 545
  Back a year or so ago Microsoft opened the Pre-collegiate faculty connection web portal to share resources for computer science, computer programming, web development and other related teaching areas. It’s been a pretty successful site with tens of thousands of teachers visiting it for news and resources. This ...
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• Presidential Star Party

  
  Asymptotia — Authority: 126
  This is a photo I borrowed from Dara Normans blog post over on NSBPs Vector . It is about the star party held over at hhe White House in October of this year. It looks like it was a lot of fun! Er, you may recognize one or two of those people at the telescope...-cvj
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• Fairfax County in US beckons India Inc to invest

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Bangalore, Nov 6 (IANS) Fairfax County in Virginia state Friday invited India Inc to explore business opportunities in the US by investing in the county, especially in defence and aerospace sectors.“Proximity to Washington DC provides Fairfax Country huge potential for Indian enterprises, especially small and medium ...
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• Student-built Mission to the Moon

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 142
  The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) to manage a pan-European student built mission to the Moon. Called the European Student Moon Orbiter (ESMO) program, the intent of the effort is to place the student-led effort into lunar orbit as soon as 2013. Students from at least ...
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• MIND Reviews: The Human Spark

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
  TELEVISION The Human Spark [More]
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• November 6, 1990 (a Tuesday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 122
  On this date, Webster v. New Lenox was decided.  The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that school boards have the right to prohibit teaching creationism because such lessons would constitute religious advocacy.
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• Tabletop Transitional – Scale down to an Angstrom, baby, yeah!

  
  Homologous Legs — Authority: 116
  Good science education tools are useful, as they help get scientific concepts across to the public without breaking brain cells in the process. This one is particularly neat – it’s a clever bit of Flash that lets you scale down from a coffee bean and a grain of rice (the millimeter scale) to a single carbon atom ...
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• Two Research Careers: A Fable For Grad Students

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 628
  Let me describe two very different academic careers. read more
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• But I Don’t Want to be a Programmer

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 545
  One of the things I hear pretty regularly is that not everyone needs (or wants) to be a programmer. Some people want or perhaps even need to do some programming or more generally programming like activities but they don’t want to be full time programmers or computer scientists. These people can be a lot more ...
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• Teens Published in Astrophysics Journal

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 142
  From Universe Today High school students from Germany have now done what many scientists strive for: had their research work published by a science journal. The Astronomy & Astrophysics science journal published a paper co-authored by three students who observed the light variations of the faint (19th magnitude) ...
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