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Since the New Year is quickly approach­ing we all have our res­o­lu­tions to con­sider. Some peo­ple might quit smok­ing, change their diets or change their out­look on life. As for me, with a new baby on it’s way new chal­lenges and (…)

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The NASA Earth Observatory’s mis­sion is “to pro­vide a freely-accessible pub­li­ca­tion on the Inter­net where the pub­lic can obtain new satel­lite imagery and sci­en­tific infor­ma­tion about our home planet.” Amongst the wealth of infor­ma­tion found on the NEO site, the Blue (…)

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What would the world look like through the eyes of a fly? Bet­ter yet, a Ter­raFly. An online ser­vice pro­vided by the Florida Inter­na­tional Uni­ver­sity called Ter­rafly allows you to input a des­ti­na­tion (so long as it’s in the United States) and see (…)

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One of my favorite hol­i­day movies is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rein­deer (1964). The film set the stan­dard for stop motion ani­ma­tion before Tim Burton’s vision in the Night­mare Before Christ­mas. The charm of the film lies not only within the (…)

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