Archive for the ‘Science & Nature’ Category
Saturday, April 9th, 2005
Technology has given America the edge worldwide for many years, but lately there have been an increasing number of signs that we are letting this slip, especially at the education level. Some notes from this article at the SFGate: "American Universities fall way behind in programming / Weakest result ...
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Saturday, February 19th, 2005
This begins to sound much like the film The Day After Tomorrow: CNN.com - Scientists: Global warming is real - Feb 18, 2005 Ruth Curry of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found that melting ice was changing the water cycle, which in turn affects ocean currents and, ultimately, ...
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Friday, January 14th, 2005
Huygens probe successfully lands on Saturn's moon Titan This is an amazing feat - imagine hurtling an unmanned washing machine into outer space and getting it to land gently on the surface of an atmosphere-laden moon 90 million miles away. I am impressed that the thing is already sending ...
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
We made our donation today to the American Red Cross to hopefully provide some further assistance to the post-tsunami aid efforts in Asia. This is one of those situations where there are no words...
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Sunday, December 26th, 2004
USATODAY.com - Asteroid has 1-in-60ish chance of Earth hit 2004 MN4 is now being tracked very carefully by many astronomers around the world, and we continue to update our risk analysis for this object. Today's impact monitoring results indicate that the impact probability for April 13, 2029 has risen ...
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