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Few people could show the South African Parliament what not to do with a banana and a condom - and get a standing ovation. But political satirist and provocateur Pieter-Dirk Uys did just that with a special parliamentary performance of his one-man show Foreign Aids earlier this year. And...
It's doubtful Woody's descendants--or anyone else's--will hang around for the cookout. One possible escape route: an exodus to Mars, which is farther from the sun and hence cooler. But it would take a lot of engineering to turn Mars' frozen, Gobi-like surface into a...
In astronomy, as in life, the big events always happen in threes. Today's example: The first full solar eclipse of the millennium occurred on the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice, and when the sun finally goes down tonight, Mars will be at its brightest in over a decade.
Meanwhile, Mars is in its biannual "opposition" to the earth, when it is lined up opposite the Sun, with Earth in between. This year, the Red Planet is a mere 42 million miles from Earth, the closest since 1988. For the next two weeks, it will glow orange-gold, brighter...
The da Vinci is a descendant of a U.S. Department of Defense project in the 1980s to create a robot that would allow surgeons to operate on critically wounded soldiers from a safe distance, or even perform emergency surgery on astronauts on Mars. The scientists envisioned easily deployed surgical units...