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[Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Hunting Hidden Dimensions / Science News: Johanssen, Psaltis and astronomer Jeffrey McClintock of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics looked closely at the best-studied black hole binary, A0620-00, which has been observed for about a decade. But if two quarks or two gluons, or one of each, get close enough to each other as they are flying in opposite directions, there could be enough energy in a small enough space that a black hole would form ”” if, and only if, gravity is strong enough to start .

[Science & Nature | Smithsonian.com] Finding a Home in the Cosmos | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine: The answer takes up several dense paragraphs, ending in the assertion that they "believe in God as nothing less than the process of opening our personal lines of contact with the unknown potential of the universe"—a sentence that the word "unknown" transforms from merely insubstantial to, well, empty.

[Low End Mac] Wasteful Consumerism, iPhone Plus Apple TV, and Laurence Gartel on ...: The ol Mac Plus made great images, and many of the works I havecreated on that machine are included in my art history books. Butgoing through my software, I have Bryce 2.0, Color It!, InfiniD,Stratavision, and every single Kai's Power Tools known to man.(None of it working on an iMac.)

[3quarksdaily] East/West and the Central Role of Islamic - 3quarksdaily: In a recent project, I sought to demonstrate the ways in which trade, political acumen, and incessant diplomacy, rather than conquests and consequent changing borders, could also provide for centuries of continuous cultural and artistic exchanges between the Islamic powers controlling the eastern and southeastern Mediterranean coasts and the Most Serene Republic of Venice, one of the major European political players for almost a millennium.(9) In this case, it was the Venetians who initially imported, learned, absorbed, imitated, and re-elaborated the artistic, technical, and technological traditions of the Islamic world and eventually””because of the expanding and exciting horizons of the European Renaissance and the contemporaneous shrinking prosperity of the Mediterranean Islamic powers, in particular the Mamluks””reversed the trend and conquered the export market of luxury goods. For the pragmatic Venetians, who enjoyed a constant diplomatic presence and established communities of merchants in the Near East, therefore, East/West was not perceived as a dichotomy;

[Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Blob May Signal Monster Galaxy Feeding / Science News: In an article recently posted online, Avi Loeb and Mark Dijkstra of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., show that these cold gas filaments are likely to appear as Lyman-alpha blobs, just like the one ....

[Universe Today] Rogue Black Holes May Wander the Galaxy | Universe Today: But Loeb and O'Leary say hundreds of rogue black holes should be traveling the Milky Way's outskirts, each containing the mass of 1,000 to 100,000 suns. They would be difficult to spot on their own because a black hole is visible only when it is swallowing, or accreting, matter.

[COSMOS magazine - Features] Hunt for the God particle | COSMOS magazine: This May 2006 book is available now at libraries of 22 prominent universities and astronomical institutes including: Harvard, Harvard-Smithsonian, Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Vassar, University of Toronto, University of Edinburgh , University of Helsinki, Kyoto University, Universidad de Chile, University of Hamburg, University of Bologna, University of Goettingen, Canterbury University, Max-Planck-Institut for Astrophysik, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Astronomical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, University of Groningen, Universidad de Guadalajara, and the Czech Republic's Academy of Sciences.

[Shtetl-Optimized] Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » My diavlog with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Stas, I’m sorry I’ve taken so long to respond, your question is a very good one and it does make me a bit uncomfortable to describe my answer, and it took a lot of thinking to really be comfortable with it. Also, I really hope I don’t come across as a crank””obviously what I’m presenting is just an opinion, lacking rigorous scientific evidence””it is based on introspection and (what I believe to be) very common experiences.

[Not Exactly Rocket Science] Who are the best science writers? : Not Exactly Rocket Science: Miller is an enlightening speaker (see youtube and HHMI's biointeractive evolution lectures) who knows how to take complex science and teach it to lay people. Peter Sinclair also is a good educator and provides references so you can search for yourself.

[The Loom] The Big Picture. The Loom: A blog about life, past and future: This group, which investigates cases of federal government employees who feel they have been unfairly treated or dismissed, reached the same conclusion—top scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (where the Proceedings is published) retaliated against Sternberg by investigating his religion and falsely labeling him as a creationist, as reported by the Washington Post (August 19). However, according to an article in the UK’s Independent (August 20), Sternberg insists that he is agnostic about intelligent design, is not a young earth creationist and believes that science only moves forward on controversy.

[Florida Citizens for Science] Florida Citizens for Science » Blog Archive » Florida legislature ...: Evolution supporters HAVE addressed these issues, but the creationists/ID’ers just plain ignore it literally with fingers in ears and mouths open screaming accusations of godlessness, devil worshiping, and other personal attacks (which YOU, BOB, were just accusing us pro-evolutionists of doing). The leakage of the Wedge document from the Discovery Institute proved that the pro-ID/creationists never intended to listen to the empirical arguments against ID since their agenda all along was all about the eventual replacing of “materialistic”

[mental_floss Blog] mental_floss Blog » What's the nerdiest thing you've ever done?: For fun, I reread classic novels from the list of books that made normal students cringe in high school, teach my toddler daughter random facts, read the PopSci blog (fascinating, some days) and Damn Interesting, accidentally proofread the labels on common household objects, and watch NatGeo, Discovery, the History Channel and (new to me) the Smithsonian Channel in HD on the massive 55″ plasma TV mounted to the only solid wall of my 10×12 livingroom.

[Xywomen's Weblog] Bon Voyage to June and David « Xywomen's Weblog: Main meals were tasty and David’s chocolate dessert was yum, but my peach Melba was tres ordinaire. Just some canned peaches with a terribly sweet raspberry flavoured syrup (like what you have in a milkshake) with an enormous blob of ice cream and a topping of very sweet cream!

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