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Gift Guide For Space Jockeys

9:20AM Jesus Diaz | Hey you, Ground Controls and Major Toms orbiting out there! If you’re a space aficionado or know someone who’d like to blast into the cosmos, it’s time to take your protein pills. Here’s the definitive go/no-go holiday gift list. More »
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Obama’s Plan To Help Next Generation Science Geeks

10:51PM Danny Allen | Wow, this is great. The “Educate to Innovate” campaign will aim to improve US students’ grounding in science, technology, engineering, and maths education through $US260 million in public-private partnerships, plus the first “National Lab Day” to update school science labs. More »
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Shockwaves To The Crotch Treat Erectile Dysfunction

5:20PM Rosa Golijan | We’ve heard that just about anything could give you ED, so what to do when things down below just aren’t working? You could pop lil’ blue pills or you could go with something more reliable: Shockwaves to the crotch. More »
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Brain Scan Finds Man Was Not In A Coma – 23 Years Later

1:28PM CNET | Rom Houben has been trapped in a series of worst nightmares, including trying for 23 years to alert those around him that he was not in a coma. A new report suggests he’s not alone in his experience. More »
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Rat Brain Simulator Calls IBM’s Cat Brain Simulation Bogus

9:35AM Jason Chen | The cat brain simulation IBM supposedly pulled off has just been called out as a “PR stunt” by the leader of the Blue Brain project, who says that it’s all a “mass deception of the public.” More »
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LHC First Particle Beams Collision Doesn’t End The World

8:10AM Jesus Diaz | Hey, we are alive! At the end we didn’t need any escape pods: The Large Hadron Collider has smashed two particle beams together for the first time. However, the unknown is still ahead of us as they ramp things up: More »
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Astronaut Self-Portrait

1:00AM Mark Wilson | Some time during a six-hour space walk last week, astronaut Robert Satcher managed to capture this shot of himself… via himself. Today, the STS-129 will be completing their third and final space walk. [NASA]
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The Rock Explains How NASA Helps Our Rock

11:00AM Chris Jacob | Cross promotions sometimes don’t make much sense. I’ve got nothing against Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for agreeing to pitch NASA to youngsters, but really, there are better ways to capture youth attention. More »
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Earth’s Weather Like You Have Never Seen It Before

2:20PM Jesus Diaz
This video shows Earth’s weather from August 17-26, 2009. It also shows how beautiful this planet is and how insignificant we are. It was created at a 7km resolution with NASA’s GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model. More »
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OK, Now I’m Nervous About The Large Hadron Collider

1:40PM Jesus Diaz | I used to think that nothing would happen with the Large Hadron Collider. I even made fun of the nutters saying it’s going to destroy the world. After reading CERN Director for Accelerators’s latest statement, I’m not so sure: More »