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Plenty of good coverage over at the NASA site.

As NASA prepares for Curiosity rover landing on Mars, William Shatner shares this thrilling story of NASA’s hardest planetary science mission to date. The video titled, “Grand Entrance,” guides viewers from entry through descent, and after landing.

Dear Santa,

I want one…

Apparently I was 3,303,372,700th person on the planet, so the population has more than doubled since then which is frightening to say the least.  Were were you in the queue?

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Looks like Foldit may have come up with a cure for Aids…

In the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, scientists write that they have been puzzled by the protein’s structure for over a decade.

But it took the online community just a few days to produce the enzyme’s model.

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I’m concerned about the number of people who seem to hold these kind of extreme views, being in a position to influence education.  Only in America of course:

He describes scholars such as Dr Giberson as “wolves in sheep’s clothing”. He said: “They are undermining the gospel. If Adam and Eve aren’t literal, Christianity is totally meaningless. You might as well throw the Bible away.”

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I want one of these >:)

One way to ring in the new year I guess, a tad too gruesome for my liking tbh.

Environmental service workers in the US have been picking up the carcasses of about 2,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town.

The birds had fallen on Friday night over a one-mile area of Beebe, 40 miles from Little Rock, and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area.

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Peering out of the windows of the International Space Station (ISS), astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson takes in the planet on which we were all born, and to which she would soon return. About 350 kilometers up, the ISS is high enough so that the Earth’s horizon appears clearly curved.

The page comes with an explanation of the terminology as well as the scientific background with relevant linkage.  It also makes a great wallpaper.

You can search their site for more great images.

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Come to think of it, coolest job out of this world!

On May 29, looking southward from a vantage point about 350 kilometers above the southern Indian Ocean, astronauts onboard the International Space Station watched this enormous, green ribbon shimmering below.

The page comes with an explanation of the terminology as well as the scientific background with relevant linkage.  It also makes a great wallpaper.

You can search their site for more great images.

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