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Brother, can you spare a galactic classification?

Zinger — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:23:48 -0400

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"Your job is very simple! All you need to do is look out for the features that mark out spiral and e

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Help examine the "lost" JFK files

Zinger — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:20:39 -0400

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The Dallas News invites readers to examine a new batch of documents relating to John F. Kennedy.

Project Budburst

Zinger — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:55:07 -0500

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Join us in collecting important climate change data on the timing of leafing and flowering in your a

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Science on a budget

Zinger — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:04:43 -0400

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Microscopes made from bamboo bring biology into focus

Launch your own space mission

Zinger — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:23:52 -0400

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An experiment can be flown into space, recovered, and provided back to young experimenters for as li

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Can you write a better NASA slogan?

Zinger — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:58:25 -0400

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NASA recently changed its slogan in an attempt to better articulate it's role for the American peopl

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Science videos

Zinger — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:20:47 -0400

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ScienceHack is a video search engine for science videos.

WIKISKY

Zinger — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:09:32 -0400

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The main purpose of WIKISKY is to consolidate astronomical, astrophysical and other information abou

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Cables to lay foundation for deep sea observatory

Zinger — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:03:49 -0400

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More than 900 kilometres of fibre-optic cable is about to become the backbone of the first real-time

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Radar reveals vast medieval Cambodian city: study

Zinger — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:16:10 -0400

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A medieval settlement surrounding Angkor, the one-time capital of the illustrious Khmer empire which

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Apollo mission archives now digitized and online

Zinger — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:46:29 -0400

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Johnson Space Center and Arizona State University's Space Exploration Resources are scanning and cre

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The downside of diversity

Zinger — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:07:51 -0400

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A Harvard professor's research suggests that diversity can 'bring out the turtle is all of us' and t

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Galaxy Zoo

Zinger — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 21:45:06 -0400

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Help classify galaxies via the Internet.

The Reading Experience Database

Zinger — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:35:07 -0400

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A database containing as much information as possible about what British people read, where and when

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The Buckminster Fuller Challenge

Zinger — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:19:28 -0400

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The Buckminster Fuller Challenge seeks submissions of design science solutions within a broad range

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Carbonated drinks industry and C02 production

Zinger — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:05:34 -0400

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Has anyone ever calculated how much C02 is released into the atmosphere via carbonated drinks? There

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Volunteers sought for 520-day Mars flight simulation

tigerincanada — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:16:44 -0400

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How good are you at staying sane? Does 520 days in a simulated Mars expedition module with five othe

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Now you too can review patents

Zinger — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:49:38 -0400

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Help the US Patent Office find the information relevant to assessing the claims of pending patent ap

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Face Research

Zinger — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:12:30 -0400

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FaceResearch.org allows you to participate in short online psychology experiments looking at the tra

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Sound and salt (video link)

Zinger — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:50:03 -0400

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Vibrations from pure tones make salt crystals form distinct patterns. Turn your volume down before v

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