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8 years ago+8 8 0The Perseid Meteor Begins Its Peak TONIGHT - Don't Miss It!
It’s almost time to watch the annual spectacular Perseid meteor shower, one of the brightest meteor showers of the year. And even NASA recommends this as a must-see: "If you see one meteor shower this year, make it August's Perseids."
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8 years ago+10 10 0APOD: 2013 November 13 - In the Shadow of Saturn
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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Current Event
8 years ago+2 2 0Enshrinement » Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2015
Jerome Bettis, Tim Brown, Charles Haley, Bill Polian, Junior Seau, Will Shields, Mick Tingelhoff, and Ron Wolf will be formally enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015.
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Analysis
8 years ago+2 2 0The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust
"The thought that it is man-made depressed and terrified me, as did the realisation that this was the byproduct not just of the consumer electronics in my pocket, but also green technologies like wind turbines and electric cars that we get so sm ...
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8 years ago+10 10 0NFL Hall of Fame: 10 worst omissions
Here are the 10 greatest men who have been left outside the Hall. For these purposes, they have to had been on the ballot for at least five years and must have been players, not front office personnel.
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Interactive
8 years ago+23 23 0 x 1ISS Virtual Tour 0.8
Take a tour of the International Space Station. Please enable Javascript!
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Current Event
8 years ago+19 19 0'What lion?' Zimbabweans ask, amid global Cecil circus
"Why are the Americans more concerned than us?" said Joseph Mabuwa, a 33-year-old father-of-two cleaning his car in the center of the capital. "We never hear them speak out when villagers are killed by lions and elephants in Hwange.&qu ...
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8 years ago+13 13 0 x 1Was Isaac Asimov right about contacting extraterrestrial civilizations?
By the time he died in 1992, Asimov’s published books numbered 500, with the best known being The Foundation Trilogy and the I, Robot series of novels. He was a Ph.D. professor of biochemistry at Boston University before he retired to write fulltime.
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8 years ago+14 14 0Dentist Song - Steve Martin
From "Little Shop of Horrors". "You'll find a way to make your natural tendencies pay"
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8 years ago+15 15 0Letters of Note: Why Explore Space? - Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger
In 1970, a Zambia-based nun named Sister Mary Jucunda wrote to Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, then-associate director of science at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, in response to his ongoing research into a piloted mission to Mars. Specifically, she ...
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8 years ago+29 29 0 x 2Alien Star Passed Through Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago
Around the time modern humans are thought to have first spread across Asia, a red dwarf star passed just 0.8 light-years from the sun, a group of astronomers have concluded.
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8 years ago+20 20 0The Case of the Contraband Corned Beef Sandwich
The 1960′s were pioneering years for space exploration. Driven by Cold War politics, President John Kennedy put the US space agency on a ‘do or die’ path to put a man on the moon before Soviet Russia. Even with the pressures, or maybe because of them ...
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8 years ago+20 20 0Monday July 20th marks the 46th anniversary of Apollo 11 moon landing
Monday, July 20 marks the 46th anniversary of the first moon walk, a day that space buffs everywhere still celebrate.
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8 years ago+20 20 0 x 1The Messier Catalog for Backyard Astronomers
In 1771 Charles Messier and his assistant Pierre Méchain published a catalog of objects they had found while searching for comets. His catalog was intended to help other comet hunters avoid these objects, little did he know that his list would becom ...
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Review
8 years ago+2 2 070 historic moments from the 1970s - CNN.com
The '70s may have been many things, but boring sure wasn't one of them. Check out 70 of the most unforgettable images of the decade.
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8 years ago+2 2 0What are your earliest memories?
One of the stereotypes of getting older is that we get forgetful, how far back in your warehouse of memories can you go?
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8 years ago+13 13 0Brett Favre : Legend is Born
In honor of his induction into the Packers Hall of Fame, here is the moment the legend of Brett Favre was born.
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8 years ago+2 2 0The Great Peshtigo Fire an Eyewitness Story
The Great Peshtigo Fire happened October 8, 1871, it is called the forgotten fire because the Chicago Fire happened the same day. It is the largest natural disaster in terms of loss of human lives in United States history. This is the story as wri ...
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8 years ago+13 13 0Wah-Wah - Eric Clapton & Band. Concert for George Harrison 2002
George Harrison's old friends showing they can still rock the house with his music.
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8 years ago+2 2 0What amazing things will younger generations never appreciate?
My son-in-law was playing with one of those small remote controlled helicopters and my grandson who is 2 was running around following it. I thought to myself how my grandson will never realize how remarkable it is to fly a helicopter inside of a house, he will have known it is possible as early as he can remember.
What other things are common place and younger generations won't appreciate how amazing they truly are?