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...million Ansari X Prize (sponsored by a foundation seeking radical breakthroughs in space travel) that year and removed, once and for all, what Carmack calls the "giggle factor" in private spaceflight. "This is real. We're not dreaming anymore," Branson says, all signs of his Necker Island playfulness gone. "You could argue," he says, taking a swipe at NASA, "that we've wasted 50 years...
...Necker Island, Branson gathered some of the Founders to meet Rutan and chat about spaceship design, safety issues and preparation possibilities for the G-forces and sensory overload of a first-time astronaut--like how to puke in space. They debated who would be the first paying customers. The hedge-fund honcho from California? The Internet couple from England? The hot German babe in the bikini? Or the guy from New Zealand who changed his family name to Rocket? Physicist Stephen Hawking, who believes that mankind must colonize space, sent word that he wants in--which would allow...
...Pollock’s style, he found a literal fingerprint on the back of the canvas that matched one on a blue paint can in Pollock’s studio.Years later, in 2002, a man named Alex Matter discovered a stack of 32 paintings in a Long Island storage facility. He was immediately aware of their potential importance.The paintings Matter found were wrapped in brown paper that explicitly declared their identity as “32 Jackson experimental works,” and also mentioned the name, “Pollock.”Last month, as art scholars debated...
...Academy at least, science and religion have, for the most part, reached an uneasy truce—by segregating themselves, utterly and totally. But a recent article in The New York Times about the case of Marcus R. Ross, a doctoral student in geosciences at the University of Rhode Island (URI), may foreshadow the crumbling of this truce. Ross submitted a scientifically correct thesis about a creature that lived 65 million years ago. His work was deemed scientifically “impeccable” by his dissertation adviser. But Ross is also a believer in “young Earth...
...begin to prepare for the event right after Christmas, and the fetes, or pre-Carnival parties, go on nightly for weeks before the actual event. Still, not everyone in the country is a fan of the event. The Trinidad Express reported that at least 60,000 people left the island for fear of crime, overcrowding and debauchery during the festival. But in the eyes of the revelers, that only makes room for more of those who each year spend much of their time working out to be as fit (and beautiful) as possible for the festival...