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April 2007

Mars Rover Celebrates Milestone

by cflick
More than 910 days after its "90-day warranty" expired, NASA's rover Spirit is still carrying out its mission on Mars. Discovery News reporter Jorge Ribas finds out how the robot has lasted so long.

March 2007

NASA Space Station Status Report 23 March 2007

by pokabudki
HOUSTON - The Expedition 14 crew continued work this week on scientific experiments and increased the bandwidth on the International Space Station's computer network. Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Suni Williams spent time working with experiments that may hold the key to several aspects of long-duration space flight as NASA looks forward to missions back to the moon and on to Mars or other destinations.

Projections of Future World Population

by pokabudki
Although world population continues to grow, in the last couple decades the rate at which it has grown has begun to steadily slow. The U.S. Census Bureau gives the following estimates for world population growth over the last 50 years

February 2007

痛いニュース(ノ∀`):【深海ヤバイ】続々新種見つかる

by plasticdreams
バタリアンだとかエイリアンv.s.プレデターだとか そんなチャチなもんじゃあ断じてねえ。もっと恐ろしいものの片鱗を味わったぜ...

January 2007

December 2006

Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society

by jlesage & 2 others
"Our interests extend to the wondrous, the curious, the singular, the esoteric, the arcane, and the sometimes hazy frontier between the plausible and the implausible." a whacky collection

November 2006

Cabinet Magazine Online -

by jlesage
a quarterly journal of art, design, culture; partly playful, some art, some scholarly essays; good mix of specific reviews and overviews

NOVA | Mars | Mars Up Close | PBS

by jlesage
audio/slideshow of what Mars Rover discovers and sees

October 2006

HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works!

by jlesage & 4 others
Check out how blogs work, how MySpace works, how DSL works, how digital cameras work; also how to buy....