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The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced [...]
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Based on images and video, a wildlife expert who provides support to the center said the small creature was a free tail bat that likely had a broken left wing and some problem with its right shoulder or wrist. The animal likely perished quickly during Discovery’s climb into orbit. NASA – Bat Hung onto Shuttle [...]
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a resolution introduced two days earlier that designates March 14, 2009 (3/14, get it?) as National Pi Day. It urges schools to take the opportunity to teach their students about Pi and “engage them about the study of mathematics.” I am going to Pi-arty my radius off!!!! [...]
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“It will look like a blizzard in the Arctic,” said Dickman, who moved to the area in 1975 and said he always suspected such a flood could happen. Others at the meeting carried anti-coal industry signs, including one that said “Clean Coal is a myth.” Officials at the utility have said the water is safe [...]
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Gym Car Pumps You Up | Autopia from Wired.com
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This documentary comes from the Beastie Boys’ film studio, Oscilloscope Pictures, but it is no concert flick. Flow is a serious investigation into a very scary global situation: water. Water sustains life, but–unlike air–it is bottled, packaged, and diverted from those who need it most, to those who can pay the most. Director Irena Salina [...]
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I found a great science podcast by some very smart-sounding people (they have British accents) who turn out to be quite smart. It’s called Ask The Naked Scientists and they tackle life’s niggling questions, providing understandable answers that aren’t dumbed-down, just worded in ways that are accessible. I am four and a half episodes in [...]
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It’s really actually pretty awesome: CERN Rap from Will Barras on Vimeo.
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Isabella Rossellini has either gone off the deep end or revealed her inner genius with a new series of movies about insect sex called Green Porno.
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The Antikythera Mechanism is a very cool device: …the front of the mechanism shows two concentric circular scales, the inner one showing the Greek zodiac with 360 divisions. The outer, moveable scale is the Egyptian calendar, with 12 30-day months plus five days… The movie Zeitgeist has gotten me thinking about the importance that the [...]
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