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Shuttle’s Final Flight
In 8 days: STS 135 Atlantis is the last Space Shuttle Launch EVER!!
NASA Launch Schedule:
Date: July 8 2011 (rescheduled from June)
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Atlantis
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center – Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 11:26 a.m. EDT
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvOG3jWsscU
“We don’t have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.”
– Douglas Adams (Speech at The University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2001)
.. Note: His last speech before his untimely death, titled Parrots, the Universe and Everything
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZG8HBuDjgc
COOL IT! Movie
http://coolit-themovie.com/videos
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(Reuters) – Danish “Skeptical Environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg hopes a movie about his work will stir debate over his alternative solutions to climate change led by $100 billion a year in green technology research. Read more…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZR3gsY98VU&feature=player_embedded
2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The ribosome translates the DNA code into life
– from Nobel Prize Website
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 awards studies of one of life’s core processes: the ribosome’s translation of DNA information into life. Ribosomes produce proteins, which in turn control the chemistry in all living organisms. As ribosomes are crucial to life, they are also a major target for new antibiotics.
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry awards Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath for having showed what the ribosome looks like and how it functions at the atomic level. All three have used a method called X-ray crystallography to map the position for each and every one of the hundreds of thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome.