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Category Archives: Science
For Earth Day…
Let’s take heart from the abolition movement. This earth day article is three years old. Its a good essay. On Earth Day three years later, Harriet Tubman, we’re told, will be on twenty dollar bills. Some are happy about this, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, business, Community, Culture, Economy, energy, Environment, History, Human rights, politics, Science, Society, U.S., World
Tagged abolition movement, climate change, earth day, Harriet Tubman, industrialization, profiteering, progress, Zinn Education Project
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NASA Just Emailed A Wrench To The International Space Station | IFLScience
NASA Just Emailed A Wrench To The International Space Station | IFLScience.
World’s Oldest Water Found in Earth’s Crust
There’s more of it than was thought deep in the earth’s crust. Scientists studying Canadian, South African and Scandinavian mines, respectively, have arrived at this discovery. There’s more of it than previously speculated (2.5 cubic miles), and it also has … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Interesting, nature, News, Science, World
Tagged Canada, earths crust, nature, Science, South Africa, water, water news, worlds oldest water
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Our Holiday Lights Are Visible From Space
Scientists with NASA are using holiday lights to track people’s energy use in urban areas. Through satellite imagery, they tracked light patterns in 1200 cities over the past two years. Light on earth visible from space at night increased over … Continue reading
Posted in energy, holidays, Interesting, News, Science, technology, U.S., World
Tagged Christmas lights, energy use, holiday lights, lights, NASA, satellite, space, tracking, US, visibility
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Selfie with comet at 16 kilometers: Space in Images – 2014 – 10 – Rosetta mission selfie
Space in Images – 2014 – 10 – Rosetta mission selfie at 16 km.
Posted in Interesting, News, Science, technology, World
Tagged comet, mission, photography, photogrsphy, Rosetta, selfie, space
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Is anyone else amused that sharks are eating the Internet?
All this time I thought that human hubris would bring down the Internet eventually, but alas, it’s being consumed by something much cooler: sharks. Sharks are eating the undersea cables that connect our modern world. There are a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Interesting, Science, technology, World
Tagged bandwidth, cables, eating, internet, netflix, Sharks
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Meet the electric life forms that live on pure energy – life – 16 July 2014 – New Scientist
Meet the electric life forms that live on pure energy – life – 16 July 2014 – New Scientist.
Posted in energy, Interesting, Science
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Blending science with history, legends & lore: StarWalk set for Aug. 23
Looking forward to offering its first StarWalk as a gold-rated International Dark Sky Park, Copper Breaks invites the public for a blend of history, legends and lore. via Blending science with history, legends & lore: StarWalk set for Aug. 23.
Posted in Community, Interesting, News, Panhandle, Science, Texas
Tagged Copper Breaks State Park, International Dark Sky Park, panhandle, Quanah, StarWalk, texas
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Supermoon tomorrow night
Sunday night’s moon is a Supermoon, which is when the moon is at its closest to the Earth. This month’s Supermoon will be especially super because its closest point will also be the time when the moon is fullest. So … Continue reading
Posted in Science, World
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Biggest farthest galaxy so big it bends light
The Hubble telescope found a galaxy so far away and so big that its gravity bends and distorts light and shape of things behind it. The ones in the picture are undergoing star formations. Those lights only took 10.7 billion … Continue reading
Posted in Science, World
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