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Elysium: Hollywood's Familiar Nightmare, and the Enduring Technological Dream
The new movie Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, is more loaded with liberal politics than an Organizing For America fundraising pitch. It’s more loaded with liberalism than an Ivy League...
View ArticleBibi and Kagame: Conversations with Leaders Whose People Faced Genocide
Having sat with Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda in the same week, there is an immediate symmetry one sees between both men. They have the weight of the world upon...
View ArticleCakeSystems™ Partners with Hands On Nashville of Tennessee
Earth Advantage (EA), a nonprofit focused on creating better buildings, announces the partnership of CakeSystems, its energy efficiency software and database platform, and Hands On Nashville in...
View ArticleSteve King Makes Another Outrageous Global Warming Remark
A day after claiming that climate change was more "a religion than a science," Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) reasserted that many scientists overreact when discussing the consequences of global warming....
View ArticleTop Three Women's CrossFit Games Champions Share a Single Competitive Edge
Samantha Briggs (#1), Lindsey Valenzuela (#2), and Valerie Voboril (#3) gather four weeks before the CrossFit Games to create a plan for high performance nutrition and recovery with Stark's Brad...
View ArticleSlight Global Warming May Come From Ozone Winds
*April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* Laypeople tend to mix up the ozone hole and global warming. The popular belief is that the hole is a major cause of the world’s increasing...
View ArticleHeliophysics Nuggets Help Map Tons Of Meteoric Dust In The Sky
*NASA * Heliophysics nuggets are a collection of early science results, new research techniques, and instrument updates that further our attempt to understand the sun and the dynamic space weather...
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Loch Ness Monster Reference Removed From Pro-Creationism Biology Textbook
Books Culture Legal Religion Science A Christian education publisher has removed a passage that referred to Scotland’s famed Loch Ness Monster from a biology textbook. Tennessee-based publisher...
View ArticleNASA Reveals Plans For Asteroid-Mining Mission
*[ Watch The Video: OSIRIS-REx Investigates Asteroid Bennu ]* *Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* NASA announced yesterday that it will be launching a spacecraft in 2016 with the...
View ArticleWould You Tweet Your Mother's Death? NPR Host Did.
"Our children want to know if you're dead forever. I tell them yes. But I wonder about that too." -- @nprscottsimon, August 4, 9:47 a.m. In the 11 days since his 84-year-old mother died in a Chicago...
View ArticleHTV-4 Cargo Vessel Delivers KIROBO Experiment To ISS
*Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* Six days after Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched its H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-4) from Tanegashima Space Center, the cargo...
View ArticleEx-NASA Director Weighs In On Space Station In New Sci-Fi Movie
In the new movie "Elysium," Earth is beyond repair, and the rich and powerful have decided to leave it behind. Instead of three to six highly trained astronauts circling the Earth in an orbiting...
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'Elysium' Review: Socialism 101 Bogged Down by Sorry Script, Story
In director Neill Blomkamp's new movie, the uber-rich live on a space station dubbed Elysium where they don't have to worry about hunger, pollution and those nasty 99 percent types back on earth....
View ArticleLOOK: This Golden Retriever Festival May Be The Happiest Event On Earth
Welcome to the Guisachan Gathering, a festival of all things golden retriever. It's one of the happiest places on earth. The festival is run by the Golden Retriever Club of Scotland and held at the...
View ArticleIs The Antarctic Ozone Hole Causing Warming?
*By Denise Chow, LiveScience Staff Writer:* The hole in the planet's ozone layer may be shifting wind patterns and cloud cover over Antarctica in a way that could be triggering slightly warmer global...
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One Year Of Seasons On Earth In One Second
John Nelson of IDV Solutions has created an animation showing one year of seasons on Earth. The images come from NASA's Visible Earth database. Nelson writes on his blog that he stitched together 12...
View ArticleSusan Rosenzweig: Dear Men, Please Grow a Set
"Say what you wanna say. And let the words fall out. Honestly, I wanna see you be brave." ~ Sara Bareilles I met Mike -- a nice, smart, FDNY fireman -- at my local bar one Saturday night. I had stopped...
View ArticleHave A Space Burial As Elysium Sends Your Ashes Into Orbit
Because Carl Sagan once reminded us that we are all made of star stuff, there might be a few people who wish to go quietly into the night by sending their ashes into space. A San Franciso-based company...
View ArticleBest show on Earth: Perseids meteor shower arrives this weekend
For the best show on Earth, look up. Reported by Christian Science Monitor 7 hours ago.
View ArticleREPORT: Matt Damon's 'Elysium' In Trouble
One way to get a handle on how a film will do at the box office its opening weekend is the Thursday midnight screenings. Early reports show that Elysium made $1.6 million, which Variety called "modest....
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