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Science teacher James Drake put this video together after compiling over 600 images from the International Space Station into a 60 second clip. It’s very cool. I just wish I could watch it in an IMAX theater.
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Sure, you’ve seen photos from space. You’ve seen Earth’s prominent landscapes from a satellite image–and thought, “cool.” But if you haven’t seen this HD video taken from the digital cameras of NASA astronauts, you haven’t seen anything.
In addition to spanning across the planet–showing outstanding geographical spots such as the… Read the rest

Luke Geissbuhler has to be the coolest dad ever. Not only did he build a fail-proof carrier (out of a take-out box, according to New York magazine) for an iPhone prepped to enter outer space, he successfully launched it and… Read the rest recorded Earth at 100,000 feet with the HD video camera

In the 2001 Discovery Channel special Jesus: The Complete Story,… Read the rest archaeological, forensic and historical scholars pooled their expertise to create what they believe to be a historically accurate model of Jesus Christ, the central figure of Christianity. Instead of being a tall drink-of-water with flowing surfer’s hair and sea-blue eyes

All book tours are inherently bad for the environment, but Sarah Palin’s may be the worst.
Sarah Palin’s tour bus, which covered more than 3,000 road miles during the book tour’s first week alone, has been missing one essential thing: Sarah Palin. Some good old-fashioned muckraking by Joe McGinness at… Read the rest

Our planet looks a lot different when seen from above. In fact some satellite photos are more like works of art, highlighting the incredible natural beauty of both urban cities and remote landscapes.
All the images are from the Landsat 7 satellite.
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Here’s your eco thought for the day:

“The greatest threat to the planet is the belief someone else will take care of it.”
–Robert Swan, Polar Explorer, Order of the British Empire… Read the rest

[Photo: woodleywonderworks, Flickr]

Although I can’t find any hard statistics to back this up, I am pretty sure that almost everyone as a child had aspirations to be an astronaut. Even if it was only a short-lived dream, shooting off into space and exploring far off planets must have crossed most of our… Read the rest

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Imagine the world without you and me. But don’t imagine it in terms of civilization ending by some cataclysmic event; just envision that we humans are suddenly inexplicably but entirely removed from Earth. That’s what Weisman considers in his book in order to investigate how