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Digable Planets Reissue Blowout Comb Butterfly Looks Back
– the second and final album he recorded with the jazzy hip-hop trio Digable Planets – he was pleasantly surprised. "I was flattered," says the MC, who used to go by Butterfly but is better known today as Palaceer Lazaro, the enigmatic leader of Seattle's Shabazz Palaces. "That album is like a time capsule – it's an artifact from an epoch of time, you ...
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Earth will be a pale blue dot in portrait by Nasas Cassini probe | Stuart Clark
Nasa's Cassini spacecraft will take an image of Earth from 1.44bn kilometres away. From there, our planet will look like the expected images of alien earths around other ...
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Animals know more than you think
Perhaps it is no coincidence that the animals we think of as being the most stupid - pigs, chickens, sheep - are also the ones we don't always treat too well. However, humans might be the ones who have to rethink the definitions of "bird-brain" and "pig ignorance".According to a new report, chickens appear to be much more intelligent than previously thought, with better ...
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Space lesson to reach millions
/enpproperty--> More than 60 million students and teachers at China's 80,000 middle schools will experience a special class delivered by China's first teacher in space from more than 300 kilometers above Earth's surface. Female astronaut Wang Yaping will carry out fundamental physics experiments onboard the orbiting Tiangong-1 space module at around 10 am on Thursday, the ...
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Say cheese Earthlings Spacecraft to snap home planet pic from deep space
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which is now flying near Saturn, is turning its cameras back toward Earth today so it can grab a photo of its home planet from hundreds of millions of miles away. Scientists expect Earth to appear as a small blue dot between the rings of Saturn in the image, NASA said. The photo is being taken as part of a series of images Cassini is shooting of the Saturn ...
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3:10 to Yuma (1957) [Blu-Ray]
Much like Fred Zinnemans classic western High Noon (1952), a film with which it is frequently compared, Delmer Davess 3:10 to Yuma is a beat-the-clock psychological western that hinges on a fundamentally decent, but increasingly desperate protagonist who ultimately fin ... ...
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Martin Stephen Ofsted says comprehensives are failing the most able but teaching bright children isnt rocket science
In 2011, I was privileged to receive private sponsorship to research a book on how countries across the world educate their most able children. This spawned an interest in what the UK provided for its most able students, a subject faced head-on by the recent Ofsted report with its damning critique of the current state of the ...
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Museum Of Science And Industry Marks 80th Anniversary.
CHICAGO (CBS) – The Museum of Science and Industry is celebrating its 80th anniversary today. WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports MSI President and CEO David Mosena wore a set of high-tech Google Glass specs as he opened the "80 at 80" exhibit - featuring 80 artifacts from the museum's collection. "Most of the artifacts have rarely, if ever, been ...
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Cosmic preheating baked planets stars and people
Giblin and his student J. Tate Deskins have produced the most efficient preheating model yet by finding a way to couple the inflaton to the electromagnetic field. This dumps energy directly into ...
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Syria has crossed chemical red line says Obama
The US government has "high confidence" that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons (CW). In an apparent policy shift, it says it will now provide military support to Syrian rebels. The decision follows the finding of a breakdown product of the nerve gas sarin in urine samples from ...
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AIRSHOW-With Russian help Europe prepares to search for life on Mars
Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:52pm EDT * First of two missions to launch in 2016 * First direct search for life since NASA's 1970s Viking probes * Russia to provide launchers, landing system By Irene Klotz PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - The European Space Agency signed final contracts with Thales Alenia Space Italy for work on a pair of missions to assess if the planet Mars has or ever had life, officials ...
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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.
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