Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Chris Heath
There is little doubt left in the minds of professional biologists that Earth is currently faced with a mounting loss of species that threatens to rival the five great mass extinctions of the geological past. Some biologists have begun to feel that this biodiversity crisis, this “Sixth Extinction” is even more severe, and more imminent… [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Chris Heath
2008-02-21 ~ Moon watchers blessed with clear skies over the Americas, Europe, Africa and western Asia enjoyed a total lunar eclipse this week. Catching eclipsed moonlight, astroimager Jerry Lodriguss offers this view of the inspiring celestial event with the shadowed Moon accompanied by wandering planet Saturn at the left, and bright Regulus, alpha star of [...]
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Posted on February 8th, 2008 by Chris Heath
Did you know that there’s a continent-sized vortex of plastic waste blighting the Pacific. read more | digg story
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Posted on February 3rd, 2008 by Chris Heath
When we watch a movie, we’re usually not conscious of the cuts made by the editor. The camera angle may change dozens of times during a scene, and we follow along as if the flashing from one viewpoint to another wasn’t at all unusual. You might think this is just because we’ve been accustomed to [...]
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Posted on December 27th, 2007 by Chris Heath
Although technically the winter solstice only lasts a moment, this time-lapse wide screen format photo shows the path of the sun as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere, of course. read more | digg story
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Posted on October 20th, 2007 by Chris Heath
From Azor Observatory, Spain. See the digg comments for more links and images.read more | digg story
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Posted on October 18th, 2007 by Chris Heath
A wonderful image from the giant nebula NGC 3603 in the Milky Way read more | digg story
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Posted on October 12th, 2007 by Chris Heath
A Univ. of Southern Calif. scientist has put forward the bizarre suggestion that there are two dimensions of time, not the one that we are all familiar with, and even proposed a way to test his heretical idea next year. If it is confirmed, it could point the way to a “theory of everything” that [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2007 by Chris Heath
Little appreciated outside the world of academia, there are literally thousands of .edu sites bursting with incredibly useful and interesting information and resources. Most of these sites won’t pop up to the surface of the average search engine quest, and so they wait, neglected and underused…until now read more | digg story
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Posted on October 3rd, 2007 by Chris Heath
Quality not quantity. No matter how much your mother tells you that you need eight hours of sleep, if you’re not tired and you can’t truly relax, your sleep time will be worthless. read more | digg story
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