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Revenge of the Caterpillars: A Footnote to “Contagious Laughter”
As a grad student who is writing my dissertation on the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic of 1962, I am partial to one particular Radiolab segment … on the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic of 1962.For those of...
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NASA's Moon Mining Robot
NASA's RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot) (photo by Matthew Peddie)In a building at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, about 40 engineers and scientists are tackling the...
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A Beautiful Notion: That Caterpillars Killed Off The Dinosaurs
For the last hundred years, scientists have been wondering why the dinosaurs disappeared so quickly. Was there one key reason, or several?Volcanologists pointed to volcanoes. Climatologists suggested...
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I've got a friend, Destin, who has a YouTube channel called Smarter Every Day, where he pokes around with his camera to get extremely intimate looks at small miracles in nature. In this one, about the...
View ArticleFuture Telescopes, Caterpillars. Dec 14, 2018, Part 2
28 years ago, astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery gently raised the Hubble Space Telescope, or HST, up from the shuttle bay, and released it into space. Geologist and astronaut Kathryn Sullivan...
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