Peer review during WWII: HILARIOUS

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The Big Picture on LHC

post from Bad Astronomy on 23 November 2009 09:35:27 AM. © Bad Astronomy

Speaking of the LHC, the Boston Globe’s terrific feature The Big Picture has a slew of gorgeous pictures of the Large Hadron Collider up on the site. These images, as beautiful and hi-res as they are, still cannot convey the awesome size and scale[...]

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A New Shape for the Heliosphere

post from Centauri Dreams on 23 November 2009 09:35:02 AM. © Centauri Dreams

One problem with journeys that are beyond today’s technologies is that we forget, in our zeal to get a payload to the target, how little we know about the regions we’ll pass through along the way. It’s amazing how little we know, for[...]

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Mary's Monday Metazoan: Strange diet

post from Pharyngula on 23 November 2009 09:33:35 AM. © Pharyngula

That's a photo of a coral slurping up a passing jellyfish. For some reason, I find it vaguely disturbing, and have no idea why my wife would select it.

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Melting Arctic: Forget polar bears, worry about
humans

post from New Scientist - Environment on 23 November 2009 09:10:00 AM. © New Scientist - Environment

Climate change is transforming the Arctic so fast that many species could be gone within our lifetimes. But the important thing is to put human self-interest first, says Alun Anderson

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Water on the Moon

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 23 November 2009 08:21:54 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

Recently, NASA's LCROSS probe discovered beds of water - ice on the Moon - and in mass quantities. This finding occurred on the lunar South Pole in a crater called Cabeus. When the debris from the impact of the LCROSS probe was analyzed, the signature of water was seen in both infrared and ultra

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Are You Subject to Mandatory Greenhouse Gas
Reporting

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 23 November 2009 08:16:00 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will require industrial processors to monitor and report their CO2 emissions starting in 2010. Will your company have to comply with the new reporting rules? Do you already have a measurement or monitoring system in place? What about sustainability plan

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Is Money Most Important for You

In our careers as engineers, there are many factors that can contribute to job satisfaction — and to job dissatisfaction. What's important to you in your job as a valve specialist? Recognition? Money? Job security? The challenge? One survey says money is only number five. Challenging work, emp

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Is Korea Going to the Moon

South Korean president Lee Myung-bak, speaking at the International Astronautical Congress, has signalled his country's intention to develop its space technology, possibly reaching the moon by 2020. Why do some countries want to spend billions going to the moon when the feat was accomplished 40 year

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Collapsing canonical cosmology

Alexander Franklin Mayer, the Jay Pritzker Fellow in Theoretical Physics, has come up with a theory that threatens to overturn the conventional wisdom of modern physics. One might suggest that repeated self-congratulations, denigration of others, and gratuitous use of quotations are ultimately irrelevant, but he knows how to weave a good scientific tale.Mayer has developed [...]

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