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  Weekend Diversion: The Top 10 Forests in the World

  “But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest…

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  Where does an earthquake’s energy come from?

  “As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not…

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  The Far Future of our Solar System

  “No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for…

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  Messier Monday: The Youngest Star-Forming Region, The Trifid Nebula, M20

  “Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire…

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  Weekend Diversion: An 8-bit mashup, reimagined

  “I don’t understand how super mario can smash blocks with his head but dies when he…

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  Why Science Is Anything But A Crime

  “Talent hits the target no one else can hit; genius hits the target no one else…

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  Putting Einstein to the Test

  “The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from…

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  Messier Monday: A Real-Life Pi-in-the-Sky Cluster, M38

  “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
  But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” -W.…

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  Weekend Diversion: I’m Writing for NASA Now!

  “For I dipped into the Future,
  far as human eye could see;
  saw the vision of the world,
  and…

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  The Cosmic Speed Limit

  “All our sweetest hours fly the fastest.” -Virgil
  If you’ve been around the block once or twice,…