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The Space Review: 1997, 2001, 1999: a science fiction calendar from the Apollo era
The 46th anniversary of the first human lunar landing passed largely without notice in the national media last week. It’s hard to understand how such an epochal event, the fulfillment of a dream born in the first stirrings of human consciousness and deemed impossible for most of the history of our species, could fade so quickly into the historical background of American achievement.
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Our early solar system may have been home to a fifth giant planet
Jumping Neptune solves Kuiper belt mystery
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Incredible Technology: How to See a Black Hole
An ambitious project aims to image the close environs of a black hole for the first time.
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Scientists Find Ancient Lake on Mars
Scientists have discovered an ancient lakebed on Mars that dates to the time period when the Red Planet dried up.
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Chicago was raised over 4 feet in the 19th century to build its sewer
In the middle of the 19th century, Chicago embarked on a quest to literally lift itself out of the mud. Water couldn't drain from the low-lying city, so its streets became impassable swamps. The most reasonable solution, Chicago decided, was just to raise the whole goddamn city by 4 to 14 feet.
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Random Facts ← FACTSlides → Amazing FACTS you didn't know!
Random Facts. Updated daily. FACTSlides is an endless stream of amazing facts presented as colorful and animated slides. All facts are well verified and sourced (see the bottom, leftmost part of the screen), and illustrations are used with permission from their authors (you can buy them as art prints following the link provided at the bottom, leftmost part of the screen).
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'Cannibalism' between stars: New research shows the turbulent past of our sun
Stars are born inside a rotating cloud of interstellar gas and dust, which contracts to stellar densities thanks to its own gravity. Before finding itself on the star, however, most of the cloud lands onto a circumstellar disk forming around the star owing to conservation of angular momentum.The manner in which the material is transported through the disk onto the star, causing the star to grow in mass, has recently become a major research topic in astrophysics.
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Smaller Stars Pack Big X-ray Punch for Would-Be Planets
©NASA Young stars much less massive than the Sun can unleash a torrent of X-ray radiation that can significantly shorten the lifetime of planet-forming disks surrounding these stars.
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New Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns
©Lynntte Cook If you cast your eyes toward the constellation Cygnus, you'll be looking in the direction of the largest planet yet discovered around a double-star system.
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Can You See All 12 Black Dots At Once?
It’s no dress, but this optical illusion will surely make your head hurt.
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Garfield was right: Mondays are the worst day for restaurant servers to get tipped
As if we need another reason to hate Mondays, now comes a report from Eater that shows that if you’re a restaurant server, Mondays are when all the cheap bastards are dining out. Using data from restaurant management technology company CAKE, the story shows how customers are likely to tip the least
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Septic masculinity: when homophobia prevents men from literally wiping their own asses
Keith Calder has found messages from baffled, distressed women whose male romantic partners literally don't wipe their asses because touching themselves between the cheeks might make them gay.
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Woman's tiny house was reported stolen, then found 30 miles away
Meghan Panu had said her tiny house on wheels was stolen over the weekend. It was found Wednesday morning.
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What You Need to Know About Cyclothymia - MentalWealth
In 2018 I was diagnosed with cyclothymia. It was one of the hardest things I have been through in my life. My diagnosis was also one of the best things
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Staying on Top of Things When it Seems Impossible - MentalWealth
Sometimes I get in a rut and it seems like I can't get anything done. This happens a lot when I'm in my depressive state.
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What You Need to Know About Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - MentalWealth
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by obsessions and compulsions.
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When Mental Illness Presents Itself Physically - MentalWealth
My mental illness is invisible. If you look at me you would never guess that I am diagnosed with Cyclothymia and PTSD. Only those close to me can tell when something is off.
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Klinefelter syndrome: many men have an extra X chromosome – but it is rarely diagnosed
The genetic condition is one of the most common in the UK and may be a leading cause of infertility in men. Why does it so often go untreated?
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Around 2,300 pigeons put down, 635,000 kg of feces cleaned from Saskatoon bridge
Construction crews have removed 635,000 kilograms of pigeon feces from the Sid Buckwold Bridge at a cost of $800,000, according to the City of Saskatoon.
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A COVID patient with sepsis was given a megadose of vitamin C. The change in him was 'remarkable'
A young Australian man who was critically ill with COVID-19 and suffering early stages of sepsis made a remarkable recovery after being given massive doses of vitamin C, according to his doctors.
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