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"Til death do us part? The vow would really hold true in California if a Sacramento Web designer gets..."

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:48:28 -0800

“Til death do us part? The vow would really hold true in California if a Sacramento Web designer gets his way.”

- ‘No Divorce’ Initiative Lampoons Gay Marriage Ban : NPR

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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:45:21 -0800

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"But four years ago, Sabine’s life changed. He decided to get a genetic test that would tell..."

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:11:24 -0800

“But four years ago, Sabine’s life changed. He decided to get a genetic test that would tell him how he’s likely to die. The test specifically checked for a disease that runs in Sabine’s family — Huntington’s disease, a deadly degenerative disease that destroys a person’s nervous system.”

- Genetic Testing Reveals Devastating Illness : NPR

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Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:34:19 -0800

Tim Burton’s Drawings On Display via npr.org

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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:28:18 -0800

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:04:25 -0800

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:47:14 -0800

Start from the very beginning… it’s worth it. (via Dutchdrummer99)

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:46:37 -0800

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"Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you..."

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:42:00 -0800

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Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe:, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

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- Carl Sagan - Wikiquote

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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:47:16 -0800

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"A justice of the peace in Louisiana is facing disciplinary action after he refused to marry a..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:36:51 -0700

“A justice of the peace in Louisiana is facing disciplinary action after he refused to marry a mixed-race couple on the grounds that it would not be fair to any children they might have.”

- US justice of peace denies mixed-race couple marriage licence | World news | guardian.co.uk

"A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk."

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:42:21 -0700

“A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk.”

- Man Pleads Guilty To DWI In Motorized La-Z-Boy : NPR

"How exactly would new health care overhaul legislation affect you? Click on the category below that..."

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:38:01 -0700

“How exactly would new health care overhaul legislation affect you? Click on the category below that best fits your situation and see what the major proposals currently before Congress would mean for you.”

- What Health Care Overhaul Means For You : NPR

"Restricting the availability of legal abortion does not appear to reduce the number of women trying..."

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:21:37 -0700

“Restricting the availability of legal abortion does not appear to reduce the number of women trying to end unwanted pregnancies, a major report suggests.”

- BBC NEWS | Health | Bans ‘do not cut abortion rate’

"A new system called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is set to take more detailed images of..."

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:42:25 -0700

“A new system called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is set to take more detailed images of larger chunks of the sky and produce about 30 terabytes of data each night.”

- Teaching Students to Sift Mountains of Data - NYTimes.com

"A HeLa cell (also Hela or hela cell) is an immortal cell line used in scientific research. The cell..."

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:47:39 -0700

“A HeLa cell (also Hela or hela cell) is an immortal cell line used in scientific research. The cell line was derived from cervical cancer cells taken from Henrietta Lacks, who died from her cancer on October 4, 1951.”

- HeLa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Dudamel kicked off his tenure with the L.A. Phil Saturday night with a free performance of..."

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:29:37 -0700

“Dudamel kicked off his tenure with the L.A. Phil Saturday night with a free performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 before an audience of nearly 18,000 at the Hollywood Bowl.”

- Dudamel Leads L.A. Philharmonic In Historic Concert : NPR

"This Saturday in Pueblo, Colorado, more than 40 people are expected to have surgery free of charge..."

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:33:56 -0700

“This Saturday in Pueblo, Colorado, more than 40 people are expected to have surgery free of charge for everything from bad gallbladders to balky knees. There will even be a few vasectomies and tubal ligations.”

- Free Surgery Attracts Uninsured In Colorado - NPR Health Blog : NPR

Discovery Channel: I Love the World (via mrmachadochannel)

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:16:27 -0700

Discovery Channel: I Love the World (via mrmachadochannel)

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Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:10:37 -0700

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