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What God Dreams About

November 13, 2011
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What God Dreams About

Isn't it strangely fascinating that a galactic catastrophe spanning lightyears in diameter billions of years ago resemble the snapshot of a tiny firecracker mid-eruption? That the same behavior in intermolecular forces that shape and drive our microscopic strands of DNA are very similar to the infinitely cosmic forces that shape clusters of solar...

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Occupying Sacramento

October 17, 2011
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Occupying Sacramento

My thoughts from my first experience with Occupy Sacramento at Cesar Chavez Plaza

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Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On – Wired.com

October 14, 2011
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Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On – Wired.com

The web browser you're using? Coded by the language written by him. Using an Android? It's brains and heart run on a platform that extended from his invention. The same scalable technology that hosts most (if not all) the webpages on the www. The proliferation of UNIX was the birth of OpenSource. The programming...

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Test

May 10, 2011
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China looking to public to name space station – Yahoo! News

April 26, 2011
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China looking to public to name space station – Yahoo! News

Within FIVE years, China’s space agency will surpass NASA in avionics and space technology advancement. If not sooner. We are ditching Hubble, ISS, the shuttle program, just as we ditched Skylab, Apollo/Saturn and other history making footnotes. Ares? SMH. I don’t think China is going to make the same mistake. Not with all the...

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Human terrarium, Biosphere 2, looking good at 20 – Yahoo! News

April 26, 2011
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Human terrarium, Biosphere 2, looking good at 20 – Yahoo! News

A lot of people viewed B2 as a failure. I see it as an eye-opening first step.  The idea of exploration is to learn about the unknown ahead. It was better to learn those lessons on terra firma than 320,000,000 miles away from the nearest hardware store. Glad to hear it’s being recycled and...

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Detroit to send layoff notices to all its public teachers – Yahoo! News

April 14, 2011
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Detroit to send layoff notices to all its public teachers – Yahoo! News

Aren’t we just trading one crisis for another? Instead of panicking about not having enough money, shouldn’t we be addressing what we CAN do with less money? Detroit to send layoff notices to all its public teachers – Yahoo! News.

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Drugs protect monkeys from Ebola, U.S. study finds – Yahoo! News

August 24, 2010
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Drugs protect monkeys from Ebola, U.S. study finds – Yahoo! News

AVI BioPharma already has a contract worth up to $291 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop Ebola treatments. Writing in the journal Nature Medicine, Sina Bavari and colleagues said the drugs tested are antisense phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers, or PMOs, called AVI-6002 and AVI-6003. “Taken together, these studies provide a major advancement...

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Motorola Droid solves Lego-encased Rubik’s Cube in 24 mind-melting seconds (video) — Engadget

May 29, 2010
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Motorola Droid solves Lego-encased Rubik’s Cube in 24 mind-melting seconds (video) — Engadget

Oh sure, you've seen your disgustingly hairy cousin solve a Rubik's Cube in 3 minutes and 13.4 seconds, and we've seen quite a few sophisticated robots do it in far less time. But in the latest episode of “Yes, Droid Really Does,” we've got Motorola's darling solving a Lego-encased Cube in just over 24...

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NASA calls it quits for Mars Phoenix lander – Yahoo! News

May 29, 2010
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NASA calls it quits for Mars Phoenix lander – Yahoo! News

Mon May 24, 9:26 pm ET Phoenix, a solar-powered spacecraft roughly the size of a minivan, landed on Mars on May 25, 2008, and operated for five months, collecting and analyzing soil samples for signs of chemical compositions that would be conducive for life. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – NASA has officially called it quits...

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