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First Reported May 19 2012 - Updated May 19 2012 - 1 Documents

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Dreaming bigger, Bengali director left astrophysics for filmmaking

For most well-rounded people with a decent college education, the prospect of simply having "NASA" on their CV would be more than enough to satisfy their ambitions. Add to this the prestigious title of "senior research scientist", 67 patents and an induction ... [ Published May 19 2012 by Abu Dhabi National ]

Entities: Astrophysics, NASA, India, Invention

First Reported May 17 2012 - Updated May 18 2012 - 1 Documents

A Brief History of (the End) of Time

Will time itself end later this year? What's science and what's science fiction? And what is, sometimes both at the same time? How do astronomers think the universe might end? The closing chapters in the Big Bang Theory used to be either an infinitely ... [ Published May 17 2012 by BUZZon ]

Entities: Astronomy, Big Rip, Big Crunch, Chatham (Canada), Absolute Zero

First Reported May 14 2012 - Updated May 14 2012 - 1 Documents

Author Challenges Einstein in New Book

PRWEB.COM Newswire djp.ga_fill('300x250-Big-Box-PR'); Ottawa, Ontario (PRWEB) May 14, 2012Fact: Forbes lists Albert Einstein as the top earning dead scientist. But, even though he was a world-renowned genius, is it possible he could have gotten the theory ... [ Published May 14 2012 by Digital Journal ]

Entities: Albert Einstein, Dark Matter, Theory of Relativity, Astrophysics

First Reported May 10 2012 - Updated May 11 2012 - 1 Documents

University of Buckingham

Free-floating planets possible life sites?

BUCKINGHAM, England, May 10 (UPI) --Chandra Wickramasinghe, director of the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham, led an international team of researchers who argue a few hundred thousand billion free-floating Earth-sized ... [ Published May 10 2012 by UPI ]

Entities: Chandra Wickramasinghe, University of Buckingham, Astrobiology, Space Science

First Reported May 10 2012 - Updated May 11 2012 - 1 Documents

Vietnamese-origin professor wins Cine del Deuca Award

VietNamNet Bridge - UVa Astronomy Professor Trinh Xuan Thuan has been awarded the Cino Del Duca World Prize for 2012 from the Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation.This prize recognizes authors whose work, literary or scientific, constitutes a message of ... [ Published May 10 2012 by Bao Moi.com ]

Entities: Trinh Xuan Thuan, Astrophysics, Lyman Spitzer, Astronomy

First Reported May 05 2012 - Updated May 05 2012 - 1 Documents

PEOPLE Review: The Avengers Saves the Day!

Superheroes have it easy: We only expect them to save the planet every now and again. Superhero movies, though, have the daunting task of illuminating our souls.Dazzling effects, strong stories and bold heroes mean bubkes unless they inspire us. Thank ... [ Published May 05 2012 by People ]

Entities: The Avengers, Heroes, Iron Man

First Reported Apr 26 2012 - Updated Apr 26 2012 - 1 Documents

Spacecraft 'peels back' asteroid's surface

VIENNA, April 25 (UPI) --An analysis of the Dawn data was presented Tuesday at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., reported.Visual and infrared imaging of Vesta show a variety of surface ... [ Published Apr 26 2012 by UPI ]

Entities: Spacecraft, European Geosciences Union, Vienna

First Reported Apr 19 2012 - Updated Apr 20 2012 - 1 Documents

'Overnight': You might want to sleep through this red-eye flight

A movie review of "Overnight," a hopelessly ill-conceived rom-com that begs us to believe that a handsome astrophysics professor (James D'Arcy) and a goofy blonde (Rachel Blanchard) can meet cute and be ready for marriage before the end of their L.A.-to-New ... [ Published Apr 19 2012 by Seattle Times ]

Entities: Rachel Blanchard, Claudia Christian, Anthony LaPaglia, Astrophysics

First Reported Apr 16 2012 - Updated Apr 16 2012 - 2 Documents

Music: Playlisted: New music we like: Caltrop

We get a lot of records sent to us here at The A.V. Club. Fortunately, we end up liking some of them. In Playlisted, we share our latest recommendations.Album: Ten Million Years And Eight Minutes by Caltrop (out April 3 on Holidays For Quince)Press play ... [ Published Apr 16 2012 by Onion AV Club ]

Entities: Barbiturate, Astrophysics, Constellation Observing System for Meteorology,...

First Reported Apr 15 2012 - Updated Apr 15 2012 - 1 Documents

Autistic physics genius, 12, in college

INDIANAPOLIS, March 20 (UPI) --Jacob Barnett was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of borderline autism when he was about three when his parents noticed it was difficult for him to make eye contact with them, show emotion and interact with other ... [ Published Apr 15 2012 by UPI ]

Entities: Astrophysics, Indianapolis, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, John Ross

First Reported Apr 13 2012 - Updated Apr 13 2012 - 1 Documents

Angular Momentum / Manu Propria creates Facebook page

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my pleasure to inform you, that we have opened a Facebook page only a few days ago. Our daily updated Facebook page will share many interesting information, that are not published on our original Angularmomentum.com website ... [ Published Apr 13 2012 by Watch Pro Site ]

Entities: Angular Momentum, Facebook Inc, Astrophysics

First Reported Apr 05 2012 - Updated Apr 05 2012 - 1 Documents

DANM students and alums project digital light on museum’s ‘Glow’ festival

Three dancers perform Thai dance in Electroluminescent Wire costumes inside the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History during the first night of the GLOW festival. (Photo by Lance Miller)Live video mix by DANM alumni and students outside the museum on the ... [ Published Apr 05 2012 by UC Santa Cruz ]

Entities: University of California Santa Cruz, Alum, Astrophysics

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"He was the last surviving participant of the Chittagong incident in India" says Pain, adding that he spoke to the man shortly before he passed away in 2007 at the age of 92

Dreaming bigger, Bengali director left astrophysics for filmmaking [Abu Dhabi National - May 19 2012]

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Fallen Idols: Disappointing Truths About Five F... [ Published Apr 25 2012 by Oh No They Didn't! ] Now you can say it doesn't matter what an author is like as a person, it's all about the prose they create. You can say that and I will disagree. When I read Hemingway, I carry in my mental sidebar an indelible image of the man behind the prose: tweedy, ...
Music: Playlisted: New music we like: Caltrop [ Published Apr 16 2012 by A.V. Club ] We get a lot of records sent to us here at The A.V. Club . Fortunately, we end up liking some of them. In Playlisted , we share our latest recommendations. Album : Ten Million Years And Eight Minutes by Caltrop (out April 3 on Holidays For ...
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NASA: The World Won’t End In 2012 [VIDEO] [ Published Mar 09 2012 by 2oceansvibe.com - Work is a sideline, live the ... ] Hey Doomsdayers, guess what, the world isn’t going to end in 2012, or any time soon for that matter. At least that’s according to a NASA astrophysicist, who I’d assume has a library that smells of rich mahogany and is filled with many leather-bound books, ...
ABC’s ‘Beauty And The Beast’ Casts Lead [ Published Mar 02 2012 by Deadline.com ] In her first U.S. gig, young Irish actress Ruth Bradley (In Her Skin) has landed the female lead in ABC’s drama pilot Beauty And The Beast. That makes for an Irish-Scottish pairing in the title roles of the project, a fantasy re-imagining of the ...

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