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Was this a small step or a giant step, and in what direction? Perhaps because of the Moon landing’s hybrid nature — it was at once a science project and a media spectacle, an expression of apolitical idealism and an act of national self-assertion, a fact and a symbol — this happening was both dramatic and a bit puzzling, even opaque.

_on science,noted — Tags: — JR @ 2:15 pm

Fireflies

_on science,noted — Tags: — JR @ 4:43 pm

North American fireflies spend two years underground as larvae, then spend the final two weeks of their lives as adults, flashing, mating and laying eggs.”

Scout Niblett – Fireflies

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The Most Complete Earth Map

_on science,noted — Tags: , , — JR @ 10:27 am

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“The most complete terrain map of the Earth’s surface has been published. The data, comprising 1.3 million images, come from a collaboration between the US space agency Nasa and the Japanese trade ministry.”

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