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Every time something about the climate comes up I like to over-react. I like to make it seem as if we are all going to die since we cannot escape the fact that every single thing to do with the climate right now is huge news. So many things are said about the climate that [...]

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We have sent many things into space to study, but one of the more popular travelers (other than humans of course) are the monkeys. Sorry, not The Monkees, who I’m sure many wouldn’t mind seeing shot into space. Ever wonder about the Space Chimps? Chimps are a subject of evolution again, but not their transformation [...]

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We have seen computers reach astounding speeds, and you can’t even keep up with how quickly they actually do speed up. Things are quite different from the first Windows 3.1 computer I had, or even looking back to the days as a child when i had the Vic 20, Commodore 64 and 128. Today we [...]

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A virologist and a biophysicist at Rockefeller University have published a report about a new technology that allowed them to observed the birth of the HIV virus within a cell. They are the first to witness such an event, and scientists call it a groundbreaking discovery. An unlikely pair to discover such an event makes [...]

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Not sure if there is a prize for this or anything like a free mortgage loan, or something, but you can vote as to where YOU would land on Mars if you had the clout to make anyone actually care about what you have to say.
Space.com has a bit of a voting mechanism up [...]

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Surely, they have made a mistake here. We all know that the Earth is only 6,000 years old. I have seen it on t-shirts, and many other places such as this book called The Bible. Regardless, these pesky archaeologists are trying to tell us that these fossils are over 50 Million years old! Preposterous!
The fossil [...]

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Although Mars is the Red Planet, and it would seem that it would be warm just simply because of the color, we all know from remedial astronomy that it is further from the sun than we are so it has to be colder right?
Apparently, Mars is much colder than we actually thought it was. With [...]

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We were looking for a relatively inexpensive option to access data at home from our combined work office and decided to do a bit of browsing around the online stores to see just what would work for us recently. We didn’t really want to pay a monthly fee of any sort like the remote office [...]

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Bring out the lawyer jokes. Combining space and lawyers in the same sentence surely opens the door for a plethora of majestic lawyer jabs. Some sly comedians are surely burning up bar napkins trying to find the perfect joke for this new degree. Something along the lines of hot air, put them in a ship [...]

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Yes folk, clean air is taking its toll on the Amazon rainforest. At least according to a study done by UK and Brazilian climate scientists presented in the journal Nature. The new study proclaims that there is a link between reducing sulphur dioxide emissions from burning coal and increasing sea surface temperatures in the tropical [...]

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