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An amazing graphic design, and WALL-E, the new Pixar movie, is“The dusty cityscape shows remnants of a civilization: an empty bank, a cratered warehouse mall, tattered billboards for colas and…
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G8: cutting emissions?
Japan’s Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda had made it clear that Environment and Climate Change would be a top priority for the G8 summit held from July 7 to 9 in…
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GLAST works!
The launch of the gamma-ray satellite GLAST on June 11 from Cape Canaveral, in Florida, marked the end of a 16-years long period of designing, construction and preparation, and the…
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Mad About his Art
An amazing exhibit is currently on display at the Guimet Museum of Asian Arts in Paris. It is the first retrospective dedicated to Katsuhika Hokusai (1760 – 1849), indisputably among…
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Dark Matter and Stars
We don’t know what Dark Matter is. But if it is made of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, then we know it must interact with stars. The first time I heard…