No, not the old singing group.
Photo of the Day: Regina Bike Path
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Is it raining aliens?
In August of 2000, a shower of dead fish fell onto Great Yarmouth after a thunderstorm. Live toads dropped on a Mexican town back in 1997. And quite frequently, dust in the air produces colored rain, like the red-tinted rain that dropped fine grit from the Sahara over southern England in 1968. In 2001, then, …
Ancient Greek mechanism an astronomy computer
How have I lived for (almost) 47 years without reading anything about the Antikythera Mechanism? New research seems to confirm that it is the world’s oldest surviving astronomy computer and may rewrite our understanding of just how technically capable the Greeks were.
Photo of the Day: City Hall
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Photo of the Weekend: Yum!
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A robotic classroom representative for sick children
When I was a kid, a missed several weeks of Grade 5 (I think it was) because I was suffering from rheumatic fever. I wish I’d had one of these.
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“British men have worst sex lives, Canadians the best.”
Future job opportunity:
Orbital gas jockey.
Is it raining alien life?
That’s one hypothesis to explain the mysterious blood-red particles that fell in rainshowers across northern India in 2001: they could be microbes adapted to living in outer space who rode a meteor into the atmosphere and were scattered through rainclouds when the meteor broke apart.
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