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Giant Octopus Attacks Submarine
Taking Wireless Rural
A new free book from Wireless Networking in the Developing World
instructs how to assemble and maintain wireless networks in rural towns
in developing countries.
RAND’s 50 Books about the Future
The mission of the RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range
Global Policy and the Future Human Condition is ultimately to improve
the human condition in the longer-range future. While there is no sure
path to improving the future human condition, there is no shortage of
books that address themselves to some aspect of improving that future.
IMAX goes to Mars
Spirit and Opportunity, the spunky NASA rovers that have rolled
around Mars for two years, are the unlikely stars of an IMAX movie,
which opened on Friday, along with the astronomer who helped create
them.
7 Myths of the Challenger Disaster
Twenty years ago, millions of television
viewers were horrified to witness the live broadcast of the space
shuttle Challenger exploding 73 seconds into flight, ending the lives
of the seven astronauts on board. And they were equally horrified to
learn in the aftermath of the disaster that the faulty design had been
chosen by NASA to satisfy powerful politicians who […]
Prize Offered for Speedy Gene Decoding
When inventor Burt Rutan’s SpaceShipOne soared 63.6
miles above the Earth in October 2004, he captured the $10 million X
Prize and helped inaugurate the era of commercial human space flight.
