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Bowties make people look like douche bags. This is just a fact about bowties. They endow 70-year-old men with an air of the ridiculous that is usually reserved for chimps that work for NASA. If they do this for septuagenarians, trust me when I say that they practically make 18 year olds look like Bill Nye the Science...
...Physics winners George Smoot of U.C.-Berkeley and John Mather of NASA have long feuded over discoveries they made while both were at NASA trying to prove the Big Bang theory. Mather was infuriated when Smoot, in 1992, announced some results of their collaborative research in what Mather alleged was a grab for solo glory. But after they won the prize last week, the pair seemed buddy-buddy again. Nothing brings people together like shiny gold medals and a check for $1.4 million...
...clearing 200 years ago on today’s northeastern forests, as well as the effects of hurricanes,” Henry Gholz, the NSF’s LTER program director, said in a statement released this week. While the Harvard Forest also receives funding from other agencies, including NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy, the NSF grant will be the bulk of its funding. The money will also help the center develop “computer and cyber infrastructure tools for advanced data analysis,” Aaron M. Ellison, a senior research fellow at the center, said...
...Research by the Space Foundation to be released later this year concludes that space has become a $180 billion industry in the U.S., of which only a small portion is attributable to NASA or military spending. The commercial share includes spending on satellite television and radio and GPS devices as well as five "spaceports" already licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration in California, Florida, Virginia and Kodiak Island and others under development around the country like the one in New Mexico...
...Clearly there are ways to get into space that don't require NASA astronauts and NASA hardware," says Banke. "Now it's time to turn over low-earth orbit to the commercial guys...