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Two of the brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, appear very close together tonight. Tomorrow night (Dec 1) they will be joined by the crescent moon around 6 pm (CDT) to make an "unhappy face".
"This is set to be the best planetary gathering of the year, simply because it involves three of the brightest objects in the sky after the sun," said Geza Gyuk, director of astronomy at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. National Geographic.
Tags : India has landed an unmanned probe on the Moon. It's the first probe to land on the Moon since 1976, and is expected to explore the lunar surface for two years.
ShakeOut Map: A representation of the shaking produced by the ShakeOut Scenario earthquake. The warmer colors represent the areas of greater damage.
Courtesy The Great Southern California ShakeOut
Millions of residents from Southern Californians signed up to simultaneously participate in the biggest U.S. earthquake drill ever today. The Great Southern California ShakeOut is organized by scientists and emergency officials as part of a campaign to prepare for a catastrophic quake in the region that experts say is inevitable and overdue.
Doomed ship: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald in quieter times.
Courtesy WikipediaThirty-three years ago today, the Great Lakes freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a Lake Superior storm taking with it all 29 hands. 
Storm on Lake Superior: The top of the lighthouse sets about 50 feet above the lake surface at the end of the north breakwater of Duluth's canal (click on thumbnail image for a cleaner version).
Courtesy Lake Superior Marine Museum AssociationUnsecured hatches and rogue waves whipped up by the winter gale are thought to have caused the sinking.The wave sequence to the right gives a good illustration of how nasty Lake Superior can get during one of its storms.Wreckage of the Fitz was later discovered in 530 feet of water about 17 miles west of the entrance to Whitefish Bay. The disaster was immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and every year the Mariners' Church in Detroit, Michigan memorializes the sinking by ringing its bell 29 times, once for each life lost in the disaster.
Last week, Sen. Barack Obama became the first black man elected to be president of the United States. This flies in the face of those who would argue that America is inherently a racist nation, or that the vast majority of whites harbor innate prejudice against blacks.
NY Times science writer John Tierney looks at some of the studies of racial attitudes in America, and reviews them in light of the recent election results.
(Science Buzz has discussed race in politics before.)
Science fiction writer Michael Crichton died on Tuesday, November 4. He is famous for such books as The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man. And Jurassic Park. In recent years he became an outspoken critic of global warming, pointing out what he saw as the unscientific nature of the debate and the rush to solutions which he argued would do more harm than good.
In the libraries i've seen the children have always been living really close to the library or they are old enough to ride a bike or bus to go to the library, mind you this is just a burst or an idea. I mean do you go to the library a lot because you live close to it? I certainly would!
Do you buy bottled water?
In Chem/Phy we used Spring scales to measure the pull of an object in newtons.
oct-15-1954Hurricane Hazel hits the Carolinas and Ontario
today hurricane Omar is getting closer to Puertorico
Hurricanes gather heat and energy through contact with warm ocean waters. Evaporation from the seawater increases their power. Hurricanes rotate in a counter-clockwise direction around an "eye." The center of the storm or "eye" is the calmest part. It has only light winds and fair weather. When they come onto land, the heavy rain, strong winds and large waves can damage buildings, trees and cars.
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