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"Earlier this week, I introduced you to the Red Controversy, the observations recorded around 2000 years ago in Europe asserting that the star, Sirius, appeared red.
Now, taking a look at Sirius today, it is clearly not red:
And, based on what we know about stars, they don't change color on timescales that quickly. "
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"The award gives Professor Donald a chance to bring attention to the under-representation of women in the fields of science and technology, an issue she has cared about for a long time. "I am very keen to get the message across that science is okay for young girls. That you can be a mother and look like a normal person and not wear a white lab coat all day.""
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Popular-science book writers at ScienceBlogs agree!
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"The first year was brutal, at times almost unendurable.
Wherever he went the grandstands were filled with the hateful, angry voices of boorish louts screaming nasty threats and accusations. To the mob he represented, somehow, everything they hated. His very presence there was a reminder that the thing they most feared and despised was happening whether they liked it or not.
Truth be told, the angry mob had gone crazy. It hadn't so much lost its mind as surrendered it, giving itself over to the worst of its frightful passions, acting contemptibly while desperately pretending to one another that their shameful behavior was cause for pride."
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The Spirit probe: Boldly sitting in once place where nobody has sat in one place before.