UDF Skywalker
This is a siiick website, that should be peeped by all. Basically, the page shows an image of the cosmos as compiled from the Hubble Space Telescope - and let’s you navigate around, viewing 10,000 different galaxies. Even the ’emptiest’ parts of the image are populated with multiple galaxies, showing just how much is going on in the observable universe. Craziness.
The Ultra Deep Field obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope is the deepest view into the sky by humankind to date. This image combines 800 frames with a total exposure time of 1 million seconds. The 10.000 galaxies that are visible have distances out to times where the universe was just 800 million years old, one seventeenth of its current age.
For more info check the UDF press release at spacetelescope.org.For a wider but less deep view visit the GEMS Skywalker.
Exoplanets
Since the 1990s, we have found hundreds of worldsa€" exoplanetsa€"orbiting other stars. This Cribsheet explains three ways astronomers can measure a star’s light over time to infer the presence of exoplanets. It also discusses "habitable zones," regions of space around a star where life as we know it can exist, and tracks our progress in the search for other Earth-like planets.
Posted: March 1st, 2008
at 6:04pm by jessie
Categories: life,apple,9th dan,science
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Texas Wind Tycoons
Courtesy of green.mnp.AA if you haven’t been there you should check it out.AA Our ninja Jessie holds it down mad hard over there and the content is continuously interesting and dope.AA Big ups to the J.
Can’t Stop Eatin’ Full - Documentary
Since yesterday’s doc was prematurely nuked, it’s only appropriate we come with a whole new one, uncharacteristically on a Tuesday. Enjoy! This one is equally cool.
Posted: February 27th, 2008
at 11:16am by Black Ock
Categories: youtube,life,mnp is for the children,grub,science,documentary
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Wikileaks
Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Our primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact. Our interface is identical to Wikipedia and usable by all types of people. We have received over 1.2 million documents so far from dissident communities and anonymous sources.
We believe that transparency in government activities leads to reduced corruption, better government and stronger democracies. All governments can benefit from increased scrutiny by the world community, as well as their own people. We believe this scrutiny requires information. Historically that information has been costly - in terms of human life and human rights. But with technological advances - the internet, and cryptography - the risks of conveying important information can be lowered.
Wikileaks opens leaked documents up to stronger scrutiny than any media organization or intelligence agency can provide. Wikileaks provides a forum for the entire global community to relentlessly examine any document for its credibility, plausibility, veracity and validity. Communities can interpret leaked documents and explain their relevance to the public. If a document comes from the Chinese government, the entire Chinese dissident community and diaspora can freely scrutinize and discuss it; if a document arrives from Iran, the entire Farsi community can analyze it and put it in context. Sample analyses are available here.
In its landmark ruling on the Pentagon Papers, the US Supreme Court ruled that "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government." We agree.
We believe that it is not only the people of one country that keep their government honest, but also the people of other countries who are watching that government. That is why the time has come for an anonymous global avenue for disseminating documents the public should see.
Volunteer to help. Almost everyone can be of some assistance.
Posted: February 27th, 2008
at 10:50am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: youtube,crime,web,business,robots,politricks,weaponry,design,fo' real?,real life news,science,open source
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Vinayagar Chaturthi
Posted: February 23rd, 2008
at 5:28am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: weaponry,photo,science
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Sec of the sec
Posted: February 22nd, 2008
at 7:44pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: myninjaplease,crime,weaponry,photo,science
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"It’s Time for a Progressive Vision of Education!"
The primary debates are an exceptional vehicle to make, as the educational philosopher Maxine Greene put it, a€oethe familiar strange and the strange familiar.a€A They are, in other words, an opportunity to pose serious questions about the conventional wisdom that guides our public policies and practices, as well as a time to suggest radically different visions for how we might do things in our society and in our world. At least as far as education goes, the candidates have failed miserably in both regards. They have neglected to ask the deep questions about what is really happening in our schools. Nor have they even begun to offer imaginative possibilities for what education might be about in these early but difficult years of the 21st century. This is both sad and troubling, not merely because of the limitations of what these individuals have had to say about this one sector of our culture, but, more importantly, because education in many ways instantiates the root metaphors that guide and structure how we think about the purposes of human life and social relationships. What we have to say about education is intimately bound up with what we say to the young about the meaning of our lives, the aspirations we value for them, and how they should understand their relationships and responsibilities towards other human beings. In this sense education is always about the qualities we favor in human beings as reasoning, moral, and spiritual beings, and about our capacity to teach these to young people. Sadly, the candidates a€™ shallow banalities and overwhelmingly predictable discourse about schools has done little to point the public in new and more meaningful directions in thinking about what it means to educate the young in these turbulent times.
read the rest at tikkun
Posted: February 22nd, 2008
at 2:16pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: robots,mnp is for the children,politricks,science
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