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Visual Science Rocket Engines Recovered From Their Watery Graves
Visual Science Rocket Engines Recovered From Their Watery Graves Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, is on a mission to retrieve the Saturn V rocket stages and engines from a watery “sculpture garden,” as he calls it, at the bottom of the sea off the coast of Florida.
Surprising study finds that little old ladies enjoy playing bing
Maira Kalman is an illustrator, author and designer whose last online column in the Opinion section, “The Principles of Uncertainty,” ran from May of 2006 to April of 2007 and has been published as a book .
May It Please the Court
The global recession has brought us a slew of numbers so large, with so many noughts attached, that it's getting difficult to put them into any kind of perspective. The Bank of England recently announced it was injecting up to £150 billion of new money into the British economy, an unimaginable amount - yet now we hear Barack Obama is proposing to splash out a further $1trn (one trillion dollars) to rescue Wall Street's floundering institutions. And even that's not as much as Britain's national debt has been recalculated at - £1.5trn - following the classification of Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland as public corporations.
The Trillion Dollar Question
Is time an illusion?
IT IS the invisible presence that governs your world. Trailing you like an unshakeable shadow, it ticks and tocks incessantly - you can sense it in your heartbeat, in the rising and setting of the sun, and in your daily rush to make meetings, trains and deadlines. It brings order to our lives through the categories of past, present and future.
Use a Healthy Eating Plate and Healthy Eating Pyramid that are based on the latest and best science. A picture is worth a thousand words, and that’s why nutritionists use symbols and shapes to answer the question, “What should I eat?” For nearly two decades, the U.S. government distilled its nutrition advice into pyramids. These efforts didn’t accurately show people what makes up a healthy diet.
Healthy Eating Pyramid - What Should You Eat?
The Magazine: Annals of Improbable Research Annals of Improbable Research (also known as AIR ) is the magazine about research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK. Six new issues every year. We now publish each issue as an e-book, and also on paper:
The Annals of Improbable Research
Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research. This page describes the science behind Foldit and how your playing can help. What is a protein?
The Science Behind FoldIt
A Day in the Life of Oscar the Cat
Oscar the Cat awakens from his nap, opening a single eye to survey his kingdom. From atop the desk in the doctor's charting area, the cat peers down the two wings of the nursing home's advanced dementia unit. All quiet on the western and eastern fronts.