It’s official: the Phoenix Lander has discovered ice on Mars. A few days ago, the lander exposed some bright white chunks of material while retrieving a soil sample. These spots have since disappeared over the following days, suggesting they’ve melted. An additional trench found a hard layer at the same depth as the original ice. …
Monthly Archive: June 2008
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Jun
20
2008
It takes a country…
The Canadian Senate wants to make spanking your children illegal and a Quebec judge quashes a dad’s grounding of his 12-year-old daughter.
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Jun
19
2008
The Smithsonian on Flickr
The Smithsonian has a Flickr page as part of the Flickr Commons program. So far there are 6 sets, Portraits of Scientists and Inventors, Portraits of Artists, American Celebrations, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, People and the Post and Smithsonian’s First Photographer, featuring the work of Thomas William Smillie.
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Jun
13
2008
You know less about Tetris than you think
Tetris has changed over the years. The latest game mechanics are well-documented and allow for techniques more complicated than those of us used to earlier iterations could possibly imagine. And of course, you can have it any way you want it.
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