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Lolo Jones is like Olympic Rashida Jones
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We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood...
– Jill Tarter on our connection to the cosmos
NPR, Fresh Air » Jill Tarter: A Scientist Searching For Alien Life
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iPhone schedule/planner app
I’m looking for a free iPhone schedule/planner app— do any of you have recommendations?
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Mariel Zagunis Selected As U.S. Olympic Flag...
Former University of Notre Dame fencing All-American and national champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Mariel Zagunis has been selected to lead the 529-member United States Olympic Team as the American flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics on Friday night in London, England. Zagunis was chosen for the prestigious honor by a vote of her fellow Team USA members,...
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girlfriend application
hey, we’re tired, do you want to stay in and eat pizza tonight?
a. yes
b. yes
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Discover Magazine: We took a rat apart and rebuilt... →
Kit Parker has built an artificial jellyfish out of silicone and muscle cells from a rat heart. When it’s immersed in an electric field, it pulses and swims exactly like a real jellyfish. The unusual creature is part of Parker’s efforts to understand the ways in which muscles work, so that he can better engineer heart tissue. And it has a bizarre intended purpose: Parker wants to use it to test...
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…But as Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York, a leader in the search for sensible answers about guns, said, we will need to do more than reflect.
“Maybe,” the mayor said, “it’s time that the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they’re going to do about it.”
Sadly, however, it seems unlikely that they will tell us what they are going to do...