..From today’s Science Times: Homo erectus, our more immediate ancestor, has long legs and a lean, striding body. In fact, he could walk into a Fifth Avenue shop today and buy a suit right off a peg.
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The entire Cosmos series on Hulu
One of my favorite shows when I was a kid. Carl Sagan was an amazing dude. I am going to try very hard not to start watching this during the workday. hulu.com/cosmos In 1980, the landmark series Cosmos premiered on public television. Since then, it is estimated that more than a billion people around the [...]
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Saturn Moon Transits
On February 24, 2009 the Hubble Space Telescope captured the transit of 4 of Saturn’s moon across the face of the giant planet. More here (Hubble Heritage), including an animation of the entire transit.
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2008 AUI/NRAO Image Contest Prize Winners
Amazing imagery comes from some very cool places. Below is the winner of this year’s National Radio Astronomy Observatory Image Contest, an amazing picture in radio & infrared wavelengths of the Milky Way’s Galactic Center: The investigators who brought us this lovely spectacle are Adam Ginsburg and John Bally, both of the University of Colorado [...]
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Deserted Cities of the Heart
Back from a weekend in Eastern Oregon. Some new work to show from over there, but in the meantime I couldn’t resist posting this one. Yeah, I’m a tourist. This is Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge for those of you not in the know. Who would have thought a quick pit stop could [...]
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Cherry Blossoms
The cherry blossoms in our backyard are looking gorgeous this evening.
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