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Weekly Roundup | Science and Space: Top 10 stories of the week of Dec 1 - 8th, 2017
"Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow." - Heinrich Rohrer
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Weekly Roundup | Science and Space: Top 10 stories of the week of Nov 24th - Dec 1st, 2017
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people." - Carl Sagan
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Weekly Roundup | Science and Space: Top 10 stories of the week of October 13 - 20th, 2017
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. - Edward Teller
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Weekly Roundup | Science and Space: Top 10 stories of the week of Sept 22 - 29th, 2017
"Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds." - Carl Sagan
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Weekly Roundup | Health and Body: Top 10 stories of the week of September 12-19th, 2017
"The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body." - Harry J. Johnson
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Weekly Roundup | Earth and Nature: Top 10 stories of the week of September 7-14th, 2017
"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery." - Cormac McCarthy
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Weekly Roundup | Health and Body: Top 10 stories of the week of September 5 - 12th, 2017
"You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself." - Geneen Roth (Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything)
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Weekly Roundup | Earth and Nature: Top 20 stories of the week of August 17 - 24th, 2017
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. - Paulo Coelho
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Weekly Roundup | Earth and Nature: Top 20 stories of the week of July 27th - August 3rd, 2017
If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children. - Confucius
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Weekly Roundup | Technology and Web: Top 20 stories of the week of July 19-26th, 2017
"Technology will not replace great teachers but technology in the hands of great teachers can be transformational" - George Couros
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Weekly Roundup | Science and Space: Top 20 stories of the week of July 14-21st, 2017
"Did the genome of our cave-dwelling predecessors contain a set or sets of genes which enable modern man to compose music of infinite complexity and write novels with profound meaning? It looks as though the early Homo was already provided with the intellectual potential which was in great excess of what was needed to cope with the environment of his time." - Susumu Ohno
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Weekly Roundup | Technology and Web: Top 20 stories of the week of July 12-19th, 2017
"We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are." - Jefferson Bethke
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Weekly Roundup | Science and Space: Top 20 stories of the week of July 7 - 14th, 2017
"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump." - Willard Van Orman Quine
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Weekly Roundup | Science and Space: Top 20 stories of the week of June 30th - July 7th, 2017
"What we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it." - Thomas Hardy
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Weekly Roundup | Technology and Web: Top 20 stories of the week of June 28th - July 5th, 2017
"Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all." - Arthur C. Clarke
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Weekly Roundup | Health and Body: Top 20 stories of the week of June 27th - July 4th, 2017
"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies." - Leo Tolstoy
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Weekly Roundup | Business & Economy: Top 20 stories of the week of June 19 - 26th, 2017
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Weekly Roundup | Science and Space: Top 20 stories of the week of June 16 - 23rd, 2017
"Science has wonders far transcending those of superstition, and they are poor philosophers who try to bring Nature down to the level of their small capacities instead of striving to exalt those capacities to the height of creation's truth. No savage, worshipping the most preposterous idol, ever believed greater absurdities than a modern sceptic, who makes his small modicum of reason the standard by which to measure the boundless universe." - Henry James Slack
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Weekly Roundup | Science and Space: Top 20 stories of the week of June 2 - 9th, 2017
"Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard." - Haruki Murakami
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Weekly Roundup | Technology and Web: Top 20 stories of the week of May 31st - June 7th, 2017
"Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors." - Jonathan Franzen
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