Evening countdown to pi day 2015
[tminus t=”14-03-2015 21:26:53″/] Today is 3/14/15 and at 9:26:53 the date/time corresponds with the first 10 digits of the famous
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Best Kennedy Space Center Launch Viewing Areas at Cape Canaveral Florida (Cocoa Beach and Titusville) Map (Kml, picture, schedule)
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A modest proposal for solving global warming: nuclear war
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What if we allowed the authors and the reviewers of academic papers to interact with each other and, horribile dictu,
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A very bright and concise way of explaining the economic implications of the peer-review process Open science, Freedom of Information
Read MoreHumankind’s most ambitious science projects
Humankind’s most ambitious science projects. Space station – 2.3 billion to run, 4.5 billion to build Hadron collider – 1.2
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Hormones turn nursing mothers into fearless fighters with low blood pressure and calculating minds… Husbands, stay away… Scientists studied nearly
Read MoreNo time travel for you. Hong Kong Scientists confirm that time travel is impossible
Spotted by my wife, thus notable. A team of scientists says it’s officially time to leave the idea of time
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