An Edge of Ordinary

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Saturday, June 25, 2016

The first temple perhaps

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Smithsonian magazine has a recent article (2008) on Gobekli Tepe, which is 300 miles from Catalhoyuk and is reliably dated to 11,000 yea...

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

470 million years ago

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A meteorite unlike any others found

Monday, June 13, 2016

"Baby Alien Worlds"

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The full article is at space.com "Baby alien worlds are indeed likely slicing gaps in the disk of dust and gas swirling around the y...

Saturday, June 11, 2016

Diamond Planets might exist and might have been the origin of life

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Excerpted from: cit http://earthsky.org/space/universes-first-life-on-diamond-planets Earth, Mars, and Venus are composed mostly of ...

Thursday, June 9, 2016

New observations of black hole growth

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At http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/654955/?sc=swhn a previously unobserved process of black hole growth reported in Nature, June...

Sunday, February 21, 2016

Where are the exomoons

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A most interesting article on how our moon may have made our planet hospitable to life and thus a clue to whether there is life elsewhere i...

Friday, February 19, 2016

Thinking at a Distance

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Nice story about plants that can camouflage themselves. http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/19/the-sneaky-life-of-the-worlds-m...

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