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Selby maintains a busy schedule between seeing students and conducting policy research. However, she says her real passion is the time she spends at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, America's largest private organization dedicated to marine science and engineering...
When massive stars explode as supernovas, for example, they create a periodic table's worth of radioactive elements, some of which decay into antielectrons, known as positrons. A black hole, scientists believe, can also produce electron-positron pairs by superheating the material that spirals into its gravitational sinkhole. It was the radiation produced by annihilating positrons and electrons, not the antimatter itself, that was actually observed by Purcell at Northwestern and his collaborators at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington...
...real mystery, scientists say, is not that the positrons were created. It's that they were lobbed so many thousands of light-years above the galactic plane, like water droplets scattered by a giant geyser. Scientists offered several competing explanations last week. Rice University astrophysicist Edison Liang thinks black holes may be the key. While most of the stuff that falls into a black hole stays there, he observes, some of it gets blasted out in the form of a hot wind. Liang's hypothesis draws strength from the fact that there appear to be a good half a dozen...
...been a big surprise for us. Last year, he was a freshman player who was learning. He's really established himself at the three-hole, and he's a big part of our offense. That three-run homer was well...
Cults are on the rise; so is interest in aliens, witchcraft, New Ageism, Satanism and anything having to do with the occult. Spiritual hunger is a natural part of the human psyche, but so are self-centeredness and obstinacy. Rather than turn to God, we try to fill the hole in our souls with money, prestige, sex, drugs, alcohol, food, pop culture, occult knowledge--virtually everything. Where does this lead us? To a decaying society rife with addicts and 39 dead Trekkies. It's time to get our heads out of the stars and turn back to that old-time...