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Dig This! Moon Excavation Robot Contracts Announced
Space Coalition Blog —
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Thanks to NASA probes of the Moon, it appears that water content in lunar polar soil is 10 to 30 times richer than previously thought. Moreover, it seems easier-to-access in places than the floors of ultra-deep craters. Question: How best to dig for and into this valuable resource? NASA today selected Astrobotic ...3 hours ago -
Biology Lesson a Little Too Raw for Mass. Parents
Discoblog —
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Tales of grown-ups trying to ruin science in the schools usually seem to involve anti-evolutionists. But in Massachusetts, science education has clashed with a different force: squeamishness. We here at Discoblog love the yuck factor of science. Can’t get enough of it. But for some parents in Sandwich, ...6 hours ago -
Obama Announces Programs to Boost Math and Science Education
TPM LiveWire —
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In a speech today, President Obama announced several new programs , including an annual White House science fair, to boost interest in science and math education, especially among minorities and girls. "If you win the NAACP championship, you come to the White House. Well, if youre a young person, and you produced ...10 hours ago -
The lessons of "Climategate"
Marginal Revolution —
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Ive had many readers emailing me, asking what I think of the "trove" of emails unearthed from climate change researchers . Ill admit I havent read through the rather embarrassing revelations, Ive only read a few media summaries and excerpts . I see a few lessons: 1. Do not criticize other people in emails or ...16 hours ago -
"White House Pushes Science and Math Education"
A Blue View —
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NY Times : To improve science and mathematics education for American children,the White House is recruiting Elmo and Big Bird, video game programmersand thousands of scientists. President Obama will announce a campaign Monday to enlist companies and nonprofitgroups to spend money, time and volunteer effort to ...18 hours ago -
Center to celebrate ‘Year of Astronomy’ – Press & Sun-Bulletin
Paranominal —
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BBC NewsCenter to celebrate Year of AstronomyPress & Sun-BulletinKopernik Observatory & Science Education Center will celebrate the international Year of Astronomy by unveiling new mural-sized images from nasas …NASA images to be unveiled at Urbana UniversitySpringfield News SunHappy Birthday, Edwin Hubble, ...22 hours ago -
Bad science in science fiction
Joanne Jacobs —
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Better science education wouldn’t fix Star Trek’s bad science , argues John Scalzi. But it doesn’t matter. . . . even movies with bad science can still inspire the science-minded. Aside from James Kirk, the main characters in Star Trek are a science officer, a linguist, a mathematical whiz kid, a doctor, an ...1 day ago -
New Photos! Saturns Enceladus in Raw Form
Space Coalition Blog —
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NASAs Cassini spacecraft at Saturn has yielded yet another look at Enceladus, a moon of the ringed planet. "As promised, Cassini has delivered yet another rousingly successful encounter with Enceladus," explains Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Team Leader and Director of the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for ...2 days ago -
National Computer Science Education Week
CCC Blog —
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Congress has resolved that the week of December 7 will be designated as “National Computer Science Education Week.” Organizations such as the ACM , CRA , and NCWIT , along with industrial partners, are planning to use this week to promote awareness of computer science education. The NSF has invested in a ...2 days ago -
Measuring Up: New NIST Director, Plus Big Budget Put Measurement Science in Public Eye
Scientific American —
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Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Commerce confirmed Patrick Gallagher as the 14th director of its National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) . Although the title may be new to Gallagher, NISTs mission of developing measurement science, standards and technology isnt. The 46-year-old physicist ...3 days ago -
NFL’s Big Fan of Science!
Science Cheerleader —
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From Discover Magazine! Pop quiz: Which former NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year is a (literally) big fan of science, and this magazine in particular? That’s right, defensive end Hugh Douglas . Recently, as part of an ongoing effort to playfully engage the public in science, he chatted with DISCOVER contributor ...3 days ago -
Chipping the web: November 20th
Chip's Quips —
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The Alliance for Code Excellence | CodeOffsets.com You can buy "Bad Code Offsets" that support various Open Source initiatives. Yet, their web site is written in ASP.NET. Tags: opensource programming Intel: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020 "Intel(tm) inside" Tags: technology science ...3 days ago -
Even professional cheerleaders get cancer
Science Cheerleader —
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Meet former 76ers Cheerleader Sharon Steidler (the dancer on the right). Hands down, Sharon’s the most talented dancer I’ve ever met. (We were on the 76ers dance team together.) A picture of health, too. Sharon’s story is timely as it relates to this week’s headlines about the Mammogram Storm . In short, ...3 days ago -
The Georgia Teachers Organization
The Transmission Outfit —
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The Georgia Teachers Organization (GTO) is an organizational body that desires to create better work conditions and environments for all educators in the state of Georgia. The goal of this organization is to bring together all Georgia educators into a sole state organization which can talk out in behalf of the ...3 days ago -
War Is Peace: Can Science Fight Media Disinformation?
Scientific American —
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When I saw the statement repeated online that theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge would be dead by now if he lived in the U.K. and had to depend on the National Health Service (he, of course, is alive and working in the U.K., where he always has), I reflected on something I had written ...3 days ago -
Puppies Teach Science
Science Cheerleader —
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(Thanks, Jessie, for alerting us to this sweet vid!) A crack team of PhD-trained golden retrievers illustrate the structure of atoms – the particles that make up everything around you. From the creative folks at PetsTeachScience.3 days ago -
Ray Comfort’s Miseducation Campaign Went Live Early
Friendly Atheist by @hemantmehta —
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***Update*** : Ray Comfort has agreed to do an email interview for this site. Please leave your questions in the comments and I’ll pass them along to him. … Ray Comfort lied about when he would be distributing his anti-evolution version of On the Origin of Species on college campuses. He had said he ...4 days ago -
The Altered Face of our Solar System
Space Coalition Blog —
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From Popular Mechanics Pick up a 30-year-old astronomy textbook and you will find more illustrations of planets than actual pictures; Pluto still holds onto its full planet status and exoplanets are theoretical. In the intervening decades, new instruments and methods have acted together to form one giant, ...4 days ago -
Postwar Baghdad Zoo thrives
Scientific American —
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Nearly all destroyed in the war and subsequent violence, animals at Baghdad Zoo are now thriving and drawing more visitors than ever before.4 days ago -
Japan Asteroid Explorer: Recovery Plan Underway (Update)
Space Coalition Blog —
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Engineers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have announced that their Hayabusa spacecraft will resume operations. The spacecraft encountered problems with its suite of ion engines. But thanks to some long-distance adjustments, the probe can maintain the current return cruise, JAXA has stated. "Enough ...4 days ago
