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"Like many gadget-happy Americans, NASA took lots and lots of home movies. For this series it threw open the doors of its film and video archives, which have been transferred to stunning high-definition format."
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More than you may have wanted to know about how relativity affects GPS.
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"One of the reasons why I've never had very much time for the Dawkinses, Dennetts and Martin Gardners[2] of this world and their hostility to any critical analysis of the way in which "facts" are made is that it actually has real world consequences
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Curie wuz robbed!
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