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  The Contested Plains
  On Killing
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  The Tipping Point
  On Combat
  The Botany of Desire
  Freakanomics
  Midnight's Children

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Saturn's hurricane-like storm

Some incredible pictures are coming out of NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn. Cassini has photographed a monster storm at Saturn's south pole with a central eye structure and winds of 350 mph. Apparently this has never been detected on any...

Posted on November 10, 2006 2:14 PM • 4 Comments

NASA (finally) makes the right choice

Depending on how you look at it, NASA was either on a precipice or at a fork in the road. In the wake of the Columbia orbiter disintegration, former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe decided in January 2004 that a shuttle...

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Posted on October 31, 2006 3:13 PM • 7 Comments

Coolest thing I've seen in a while (for night-sky geeks)

What originally brought me into science was an astronomy class in junior high and the astronomy bug has never left me. So I was pretty geeked to find this article (thanks to Pete Modreski) on tracking Iridium satellites from Sky...

Posted on October 12, 2006 2:55 PM • 3 Comments

photo of the ISS transiting the moon

Very cool photo I just caught on spaceweather.com: From their caption: "Two nights ago, Ed Morana was watching the full moon over Tracy, California, when the International Space Station flew by--almost eclipsing the crater Tycho. Using a video camera and...

Posted on October 9, 2006 1:48 PM • 3 Comments

Where is NASA getting the money for space exploration?

I can do without the conspiracy theorizing, thanks. No, what's really interesting (and insidious) about this story is something Revkin may not have had space for: NASA is certainly moving away from Earth observation (EO), but that slack isn't being transferred over to other agencies.

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Posted on August 2, 2006 4:28 PM • 0 Comments

Flying the symbol of slavery in space

I got on NASA Watch today to see if they had a more nuanced take on the NASA letter to Lieberman (Anthis link), admitting that Deutsch eff'ed up (long story here). The story has oh'so'much cache with the blogadome, so...

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Posted on June 15, 2006 5:25 PM • 0 Comments

Bob Park on Triana

Bob Park (who, if he isn't the original blogger, at least deserves credit for his physics news updates that started in 1987 -- when I was in junior high, for F's sake), had a good op/ed in the Sunday NY...

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