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It might be tempting to dismiss Galaxy Zoo as just an amusing diversion - fun in an I-play-a-scientist-on-TV kind of way. But astronomers - and volunteers - have made real discoveries by mining its crowd-sourced data. Among them: red spiral galaxies (most spirals are blue), green peas...
But the organizers of the New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF), which runs through March 21, understand that their target is not really children. This year's special attraction, for example, is a retrospective of 50 years of French animation. For those who find that too trifling a...
A good chunk of Courage and Consequence is taken up by the Joseph Wilson affair and the outing of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a covert CIA agent - an allotment that is justified from Rove's point of view, since he spent a good chunk of the Bush Administration...
Following on from this is “Intermission,” 39 seconds of unconnected, vaguely musical noises, which somehow work within the structure of the album. There is so much variety within the musical styles that this diversion seems appropriate, showcasing yet another side of Hynes?...
Nicolas Dupont-Aignon, a conservative parliamentarian and usually a supporter of right-wing causes, said that the initiative "completely escaped" the government's control. "The government poorly framed this debate from the outset and - for electoral objectives - spoke of national identity rather than national unity," he says. While the media...