October 6, 2008. As soon as darkness falls, look for the moon. You’ll find Jupiter blazing nearby. Jupiter and the moon look close together, but Jupiter is much farther away than the moon – 42 light-minutes tonight, in contrast to about a light-second for the moon.…
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Moon near Jupiter October 6 and 7
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Feeding future cities with 'vertical farms'
http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/52763/feeding-future-cities-with-vertical-farmsMicrobiologist Dickson Despommier of Columbia University talks about the idea of ‘vertical farming’ in city buildings — growing produce, even fish and poultry, in vertical greenhouses.…
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Why corporations should go green
http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/52785/why-corporations-should-go-greenSustainability is now necessary for the long-term survival of large businesses. Jay Banner of the University of Texas at Austin explains why.…
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Shuck and Jive
http://www.shuckandjive.orgDoonesbury Earth and Sky Shuck Comics Walking Across America The Writer's Almanac
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The Daily World Affairs Report
http://thedailyworldaffairsreport.blogspot.comFall equinox tomorrow
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Celebrate Diversity
http://www.imao.us/index.php/2008/10/celebrate-diversity/hogging all the baby-seal-clubbing for themselves. Funnest thing EVER! Why they lost? For bringing a snowball to a gunfight Need more whoopin? Nah, they were smart enough to trade in their dogsleds for snowmobiles, and they still piss off hippies by killing whales. At this point, we should just give them a pat on the head and a blubber-flavored cookie. Spoils? PALIN!!! Who’s next?
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Earth & Sky | blog
http://www.earthsky.org/blogRecent Entries Global warming may change ocean biology As Antares sets, the Pleiades star cluster rises The point of no return Why corporations should go green Evening crescent occults Antares in Australia
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ROWING ΚΩΠΗΛΑΣΙΑ KOPILASIA
http://kopilasia.blogspot.comάσκηση για την καρδιά". Όλο το ενδιαφέρον άρθρο, εδώ.
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GeeG
http://geeg.infoLink: http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/52484/animal-free-meat-five-to-ten-years-away Scientists are working to create meat that comes from a laboratory, not an animal. Advocates of “in vitro meat” say it could satisfy the world’s growing appetite for meat with less pressure on the environment.
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Come To A Kettle Drum
http://cometoakettledrum.blogspot.comOctober's Full Moon is sometimes called the "Hunter's Moon". It is the first Full Moon after the Harvest Moon which occurred on September 15th this year. It gets its name from hunters who tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight. The full Hunter's Moon will be the night of October 14/15 in 2008. I found this bit of information in the book All About the Months by Maymie R. Krythe. Sometimes there are rains and even snow flurries early in October; and such weather is termed "Squaw Winter," and is likely to be followed by
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TO THE MOON, MARS, AND BEYOND
http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.comsnip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope someone in Washington D.C. is looking up, nudge, nudge. -) - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/52664/full-hunters-moon-night-of-october-14-15 The Hunter's Moon is the name for the full moon that immediately follows the Harvest Moon. In the northern hemisphere, the Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the September equinox. snip -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Endangered Species
http://lksdscience.edublogs.org/2008/09/18/endangered-specie...Arctic citizens and Scientists have observed that the sea ice is disappearing at an alarming rate. This is a concern for animals tha live on the ice and depend on it for habitat. How will the decline of seals effect the entire artic ecosystem? Click here to read the whole story
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A Fate Worse Than Death, for Stinkbugs
http://www.suburbanadventure.com/2008/09/18/a-fate-worse-tha...Once the stink is unleashed, the other bugs scatter delaying their eventual death as I had to wait for them to regroup. So, I devised a new way of killing them: I took pieces of double sided tape, stick one side to the bug and the other side to the inside of a cardboard box I
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