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Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope Brings the "Final Frontier" to Your Desktop
Science – In February, Robert Scoble wrote that Microsoft researchers showed him something that made him cry. At the time, he couldn't write about it, but it turned out to be this project, the Microsoft WorldWide Telescope. It's a desktop application, so you do have to download and install it. Think of it as a Google Earth for space.
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(technologyexpert.blogspot.com)
Voted for on May 14, 2008 01:47am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 4 votes / No sinks
Comics Class of '08 - 5/5/2008 - Publishers Weekly
Books – With the explosion of the graphic novel category, there's been a concurrent explosion in opportunities for young cartoonists. Coming out of art school, prodigious talents might once have been persuaded to follow the lucrative paths of illustration or animation, but now graphic novelsÃ;¢ââ;;Â
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(publishersweekly.com)
Voted for on May 13, 2008 12:32am
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Astronauts Say "There Must Be Life In Space"
Science – The human race will find life elsewhere in the universe as it pushes ahead with space exploration, astronauts back from the latest US space mission said. "If we push back boundaries far enough, I'm sure eventually we'll find something out there," said Mike Foreman, a mission specialist on the Endeavour, which returned to Earth in March
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(news.smh.com.au)
Voted for on May 13, 2008 12:27am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 134 votes / No sinks
Can We Return Man to the Moon?
Science – Once you've used the moon as your trampoline, you spend the rest of your life waiting for a second turn on the ride. It's no surprise, then, that Gene Cernan and Alan Bean, two Apollo-era astronauts who have bounded on the lunar surface, are thrilled with NASA's plans to return Americans the moon
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(time.com)
Voted for on May 13, 2008 12:21am
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Help find Mars Polar Lander
Science – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been taking lots of incredible high-res images of the planet, including the likely areas where MPL hit. However, that's a lot of data to sift through! So the HiRISE folks have put the data together, and they're asking you, me droogs, to help them look.
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(badastronomy.com)
Voted for on May 13, 2008 12:20am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 206 votes / 1 sink
Strong china quake felt as far as Thailand
News – The quake was felt across much of China and as far west as Bangkok, Thailand's capital, some 3,300 km (2050 miles) away, where office buildings swayed for several minutes.
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Voted for on May 13, 2008 12:15am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 4 votes / No sinks
The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master
Men – A man can be expert in nothing, but he must be practiced in many things. Skills. You don't have to master them all at once. You simply have to collect and develop a certain number of skills as the years tick by.
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(esquire.com)
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Voted for on May 05, 2008 08:34pm
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Quantum Mechanical Con Game
Science – For the first time, physicists have come up with a scheme that would allow a quantum mechanical expert to win every time in a con game with a victim who only knows about classical physics. (second story down)
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(eurekalert.org)
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Voted for on May 05, 2008 08:10pm
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Supercomputer to simulate extreme physics of exploding stars
Science – Robert Fisher and Cal Jordan are among a team of scientists who will expend 22 million computational hours during the next year on one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, simulating an event that takes less than five seconds.
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(news.uchicago.edu)
Voted for on May 05, 2008 07:28pm
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Dark energy does not vary with time: study
Science – Astronomers are honing measurements of a familiar cosmic parameter to shed new light on dark energy, the mysterious entity that's accelerating the universe's rate of expansion.
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(sciencenews.org)
Voted for on May 05, 2008 07:24pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 82 votes / No sinks
Woman hopes to be Britain's first astronaut
Science – The European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed that it has been inundated with applications from women hoping to be Britain's first official astronaut after announcing its first astronaut selection programme for 16 years.
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(telegraph.co.uk)
Voted for on May 05, 2008 07:21pm
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