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Weekend Diversion: Life on Other Planets
Brought to you by Max Cannon, creator of Red Meat and also the dude who helps run the awesome independent Loft Cinema here in Tucson: Hilarious… Also, if you haven’t caught it yet, don’t forget to...
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Practically Everything Leaves Something Behind
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand...
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The Sirens of Titan
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” –Mark Twain Back before the telescope was invented, Saturn was known as the Old Man of the Skies. The slowest-moving of the...
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Our way is not the only way!
“The important point is that since the origin of life belongs in the category of at least once phenomena, time is on its side. However improbable we regard this event, or any of the steps which it...
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Giving thanks for our place in the Universe
“We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just...
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There’s Water on Mercury, and EVERY World Like it!
“You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.” –Edwin Louis Cole Our Solar System is — at least from our perspective — the most well-studied system of planets, moons, asteroids...
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The Nearest Sun-Like Star May Be As Miraculous As Our Own!
“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson In the great cosmic ocean, there’s only one planet that we know — for...
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An Atom in the Universe
“The atoms come into my brain, dance a dance, and then go out – there are always new atoms, but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday.” –Richard Feynman Here you are, a...
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Most of Earth’s twins aren’t identical, or even close!
“You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.” –Robert Brault You’ve of course heard by now the news that Kepler, the most successful and prolific planet-finding...
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Ask Ethan #1: Back-to-school advice
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.” –Oscar Wilde As many of you know, last weekend I launched a suggestion box here...
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