Year: 2012
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Science
5 Curious Facts About Earth (And the Blue Marble – 2012)
Yesterday, NASA released a new high-definition image of Earth titled Blue Marble 2012. The image, which is actually a composite of…
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Weird
Is The Earth Crying? Strange Noises Continue To Be Reported Worldwide
After the earthquake in Sparks, Oklahoma last year, several Twitter users reported hearing a strange noise coming from within the Earth.…
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Space
Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns
The Space Shuttle Atlantis took its first flight on October 3, 1985. 25 years and 33 missions later, it was…
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Space
Massive Solar Storm To Hit Earth Today
Now Arriving: The most powerful solar storm to hit Earth in almost 7 years. The storm, known as a coronal…
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Science
Video: Non-Newtonian Fluids
It looks like something out of a horror movie: An animated ooze stirring to life, climbing out of a bowl…
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Space
How To Capture A Black Hole
How do you take a picture of a black hole? You construct a telescope as wide as Planet Earth. 50…
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Time Travel
John Titor As An Unreliable Narrator
I’ve posted quite a bit about John Titor, the alleged time traveler from 2036. This isn’t necessarily because I believe…
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Space
Billions And Billions Of Planets
It wasn’t long ago when the people of Earth believed they were the center of the universe, that the Sun…
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Science
On the Geology of Iceland
The characters in Jules Verne’s A Journey To The Center Of The Earth begin their perilous voyage in Iceland, where…
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Culture
Herobrine: The Phantom Doppelganger Of Minecraft
Let me tell you a story about Herobrine. If you’ve never played Minecraft, it’s a game of relatively endless possibilities.…
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