September 2011
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Earth is over budget: We've used up all our... →
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The Global Footprint Network (GFN) has declared [September 27th] Earth Overshoot Day. That’s the day when humankind’s demand on nature exceeds the planet’s ability to regenerate resources and absorb the waste. ”Our research shows that in approximately nine months, we have demanded a level of services from nature equivalent to what the planet can provide for all of 2012,”...
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Infinitesimus: The Miller-Urey experiment is known... →
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The Miller-Urey experiment is known for being a test for the origins of life on Earth, though using hypothetical scenarios for what an early Earth may have been like. Its aim was to test whether or not the primitive conditions on Earth favored organic compounds over inorganic ones.
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Awesome Women: Lise Meitner →
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Lise Meitner was an Austrian-born physicist who is now known as “the mother of the atomic bomb” despite never being fully recognized for her contributions to the theory of nuclear physics and being denied a Nobel Prize. Lise was born in 1878, but because she was female was unable to attend…
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Original paper reporting on the faster-than-light... →
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