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Spirit Stuck - The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society "The Spirit rover on Mars is currently stuck in a patch of loose material. After a few attempts to get free, the team has wisely decided to do further experiments on Earth instead of on Mars. They will now recreate the conditions…
Lithwick: Put Palin on the Supreme Court | Newsweek Dahlia Lithwick on Legal Issues | Newsweek.com "[I]f any branch of government is in need of a mother of five who likes shooting wolves from helicopters, the [Supreme] [C]ourt is it." (tags: law politics silly US) David Foster Wallace (Harper's…
Scanning Electron Microscope Submissions | SEM Image Galley by ASPEX "Do you have a sample you'd like to send us to have scanned by one of our Scanning Electron Microscopes or our Tabletop SEM? Just download the sample submission form below, fill it out, and mail it in along with your sample, and…
slacktivist: Establishment "Here is what the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution says about religion: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ..." Sometimes a comma is just a comma and not a vast chasm separating two…