Category: science
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Dr. Angela Collier’s “The Sham Legacy of Richard Feynman”
It can be disappointing to find out that many of the people we respect or appreciate turn out to be less than we had hoped. While I was pretty disappointed at first to find that we could add Feynman to this list, the benefit to finding out is that we can use it as an…
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Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty and deaths, says Oxfam
Jonathan Watts and Jillian Ambrose at The Guardian reporting on this report from Oxfam: Oxfam’s research found that fifty of the world’s richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime. On average, they take 184 private jet flights in a single…
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James Webb Space Telescope Launching Today
The James Webb Space Telescope is finally launching today, at 7:20 AM Eastern Standard Time or 12:20 UTC. 30 years in the making, NASA has a video feed that starts very soon of the European Space Agency’s Ariane 5 rocket that will carry the new telescope to space where it’ll take a good trip to…
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Watch the Perseverance Rover’s Landing Process From Its Perspective & Hear the Surface of Mars
NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has several cameras that record high resolution footage to give us these never before seen views of our neighbor Mars and the landing process it takes to get there. NASA and JPL also released this amazing audio giving us an opportunity to hear what standing on Mars sounds like with the…
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NASA/JPL’s Perseverance Rover Safely Landed on Mars Today
NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory put out a statement after the successful landing: The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers). Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion…