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What this means is that depending on what time you tune in, you might catch a song by “Acid Mothers Temple and the Cosmic Inferno,” or alternatively, Zemlinsky’s “Symphonic Songs” played by the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Come Sunday, you can tune in to hear Reverend Gomes preaching to the fold in Memorial Church; “Crimson Sportstalk” comes on a half-hour later...
...NASA was founded in 1958 with the expectation that smart scientists and gutsy lawmakers and bureaucrats could get together to explore the cosmos without breaking the bank in the process. For a while they did. Now it looks like most of the money will keep getting spent but the cosmic rewards will continue to dwindle. The scientists, by any measure, are still smart. The same, alas, cannot be said for everyone else...
Imagine a college course where you could just hang out—and get credit. Cosmic Connections aside, the concept seems unlikely. Unless of course you’re enrolled in VES 80: Loitering. According to the official description of the class, posted online, “You will hang out in the vicinity of culture and make things in response to it.” Vague as it appears, this one sentence course description attracted over fifty students to its first meeting. This large group of wanna-be loiterers had to be whittled down to a mere twelve through...
...name is OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb; it orbits a dim star in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, about 21,000 light-years from earth, close to the core of the Milky Way. At that distance, even its home star is invisible, so astronomers resorted to a sort of cosmic optical illusion, first proposed by Einstein in the 1930s, to detect it. Einstein pointed out that since massive objects bend light rays, a star could act as a sort of lens, focusing and magnifying the light of a more distant star passing behind it. In his original paper, Einstein doubted...
...haven't seen any mechanics yet at the AmericanIdol fifth-season auditions. But there was a dental assistant. And a deputy sheriff. Twinsseveral sets. A husky-voiced Ukrainian chanteuse desperate for a performers' visa. The inventor of the Cosmic Coaster, a floating beverage holder. ("Center it!" he coached judge Paula Abdul as she set her glass teetering on the contraption.) A white guy who said he flunked the audition because America is "prejudiced and racist." And "Flawless," a wispy-bearded dancer of limited talent who appeared to be a perfect candidate for the job of Britney Spears' eventual third...