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How far away is the Moon?
2013.02.24
Phil Plait wrote a nice blog on how far the Earth is from the Moon, the Sun, and the nearest star. In his blog he points to a 1.5 min. video that shows, to scale, how far the Moon really is from the Earth.
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The Joy of Stats with Professor Hans Rosling
2013.02.09
 Professor Hans Rosling enthusiastically starts off this one hour video lecture with, "Believe me! There's nothing boring about statistics! Especially today, when we can make the data SING!" This is an AWESOME and award-winning documentary on how statistics help us make sense of the world all around us. Enjoy!
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Earth as Art
2013.01.01
 TheNASA Earth As Art collection features stunning images of Earth from five U.S. Earth-observing satellites. You can download the free NASA e-Book filled with beautiful images of the Earth as seen from space. An iPad App is also available.
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Tasting the rainbow: ants multi-coloured abdomens show what they've been eating
2012.09.01
 Have you ever seen real ants with rainbow-colored abdomens? Mohamed Babu is a scientist living in Mysore, in South India, and he was able to make ants' abdomens turn different colors by feeding them different colored sugar drops. Click here to read the article written by a Daily Mail reporter in England. The article tells the whole story and has more pictures of the rainbow-colored ants.
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Taking the Purrfect Drink is all Physics to a Cat
2011.02.28
 Have you ever wondered why is it that a dog slobbers all over the place when it takes a drink whereas a cat does not? Well, wonder no more! Scientists have watched countless slow motion videos of cats drinking and have come up with the answer as to why is it that cats can take their drinks in such dainty manner...and it all has to do with Physics!
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Harvard Researchers Illuminate Connections Among Brain Cells in Technicolor
2011.02.25
 Have you ever thought of brains as being beautiful? As scientists work to understand the neuron connections in the brain, they figured out a way to have these connections show up in various colors: "In 2007, Harvard scientists figured out how to combine fluorescent proteins to create an entire color palette, and then used it to make mouse neurons glow so they could be traced through the brain. The “Brainbow” technique has helped scientists follow neurons’ connections, which had been almost impossible to untangle." [ Visit Website ]
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Two Planets Discovered Sharing the Same Orbit
2011.02.25
 This is the first time scientists have seen this take place, two planets sharing the same orbit around a star. In our solar system, each planet orbiting around the Sun does so in its own orbit. Mercury has the orbit closest to the Sun and Venus is next in line with the Earth next. Click the following link to read up on what the Kepler telescope has now discovered: "In a cosmic first, the Kepler telescope has discovered two planets sharing the same orbit. There is a theory that says our moon was created when a body sharing our orbit crashed into Earth, but up until now no one had found evidence of co-orbiting planets elsewhere in the universe." [ Visit Website ]
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