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Last week I mentioned the retirement of the Shuttle program was scheduled this year, but might not make it. Originally schedule to have the last flight on October1, it has been pushed back to November so scientists can adapt a $2 billion particle detector for an extended life aboard the International Space Station, officials said [...]

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Laugh your way to health. We have long known that happiness, and especially laughter may have some sort of health benefits. Norman Cousins, a regular guy, in the 1970s with an autoimmune disease documented his treatment of laughter, and claims that it fought his disease into remission. Dr. Lee S. Berk, a preventive care specialist [...]

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A new $1 billion telescope project is expected to be built in Chile’s northern desert. The 42-meter European Extremely Large Telescope (sounds like an

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Some archaeologists are a getting a bit giddy about some new ancient artifacts they have found. The reason that they have found them is because warming temperatures have melted patches of ice in the Mackenzie Mountains that have been in place for thousands of years. So…do I take this route, or talk about the artifacts? [...]

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Reading some headlines today about the

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Yesterday, President Obama outlined NASA’s new path during a visit to the Kennedy Space Center. Not only did he mention flying beyond the moon, but actually landing on an asteroid. “By 2025, we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space,” [...]

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If there is anything stranger than this I don’t know what is. I had just got done watching the television show “V” and this happened minutes later. A huge fireball in the sky came in and exploded in the midwest. This of course was just a meteor, but the timing was perfect. Hundreds of people [...]

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So…someone actually used some far reaching data to try and figure out some of the climate change issues. In this case 1.2 million years of Earth orbital cycles. UC Santa Barbara geologist, Lorraine Lisiecki, discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of Earth’s orbital cycle to changes in Earth’s climate. Published in the scientific [...]

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