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I think back to that fiendishly complicated puzzle of stars and planets and whirling gas clouds whenever I think about the promise of human-intelligence enhancement. How much quicker and more acute do people really want to be? How many more bits per cubic inch of gray matter do people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What's So Great About Acuity? | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

When NASA first considered a mission to Pluto more than 15 years ago, the idea was to visit the last and most distant of the nine planets, an oddball whose icy composition, tilted orbit and tiny size made it unlike anything else in the solar system. But when the New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Stop, Pluto | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

MYSTERIES OF AN ICY WORLD ? Pluto ? Charon ? If humans lived by Pluto time, they would never see a second birthday. The planet orbits the sun once every 248 Earth years ? And if humans lived on Pluto, they wouldn't have to diet. Pluto's gravity is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Stop, Pluto | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

Anyway, “Good Music” is a great listen; the backing and chorus reek of Digable Planets, the first verse is all Brand Nubian, and the second verse is pure Tribe Called Quest. The fact that the Roots started out imitating these great jazz-rap groups points...

Author: By J. samuel Abbott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Home Grown! | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

(2 of 2) Like other medieval scholars, Arabs believed that astrology was just as much a science as astronomy, and were convinced that the movement of stars and planets influenced an individual's life from birth. One of the small wonders of the show is a richly detailed horoscope, dating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahead Of Their Time | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

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