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Space Shuttle Endeavour launches Friday, November 14th(0)
NASA will be covering Endeavour on STS-126 extensively via the web kicking off with a webcast Thursday, November 13th at 11:30 am. Endeavour blasts off on a 15 day mission on Friday, November 14th at 7:55 pm to the International Space Staion to deliver supplies, equipment, personnel, and perform four spacewalks service the rotary joints [...]
Tangled Bank #117
Welcome everybody to the 117th edition of the blogosphere’s premiere science and medicine blogcarnival, Tangled Bank. Tangled Bank started out as a sort of Carnival of the Vanities for science bloggers taking it’s name from Charles Darwin’s famous metaphor:
It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds [...]
Why Calories Taste Delicious
Scientific American has an article on fascinating research that offers up evidence that our brains can not only sense how many calories are in our food, but actually reward us when we eat higher calorie foods, suggesting that, “When it comes to eating, need and desire aren’t so separate after all.” While we’ve known for [...]
Send your name around the Earth
NASA is back with another put-your-name-on-a-spacecraft publicity gimick. This time it’s for the Glory Mission. The Glory Mission will launch a satellite that will act as an orbiting observatory, allowing scientists to measure aerosols (airborne particles) more accurately than ever before, as well as collect data on the amount of direct and indirect sunlight falling [...]