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Books: Iain M banks Culture novels ('Consider Phlebas' a personal favourite), science ('Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines' by Jim Al-Khalili, 'The Magic Furnace' by Marcus Chown, 'Parallel Worlds' by Michio Kaku, 'The Extravagant Universe' by Robert Kirshner). Previous recommendations include- 'Chaos' by James Gleick, 'E=mc2' by David Bodanis, 'The Search For El Dorado' by John Hemming, 'In Search of Schrodinger's Cat' by John Gribbin. Reference- 'Nature's Building Blocks' by John Emsley, 'Particle Astrophysics' by Donald Perkins, 'Fusion: Energy of the Universe' by Garry McCracken and Peter Stott. Currently reading 'In Search of Superstrings' by John Gribbin.

Various lectures/interviews- (Remove Spaces) 'Tick, Tick Pulsating Star: How we wonder what you are', supernovae, neutron stars and pulsars by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Open University 1997-http://www.vega.org.uk/video/programme/69 'Atoms to X-rays: The Mystery of Empty Space: Higgs Bosons, Vacuum Energy and Extra Dimensions', UCSD physicist Kim Griest, May 23th 2001- http://www.ucsd.tv/library-test.asp?showID=5551 Dr. Kim Griest discusses dark matter and dark energy with Dr. David Lemberg/Sam Kephart on Science & Society radio, April 19th 2006- http://www.scienceandsociety.net/podcasts/archives/2006/04/dr_kim_griest_p.html 'The Hunt for WIMPs', Fermilab Long Range Planning sessions Dan Bauer, Oct 14th 2003-http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_02/Lectures/LongRangePlanning/031014Bauer/ 'Supernova, dark energy and the expanding universe- what's next?', Fermilab Colloquium Lectures S. Perlmutter, May 30th 2001- http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_02/Lectures/colloquium/Perlmutter/ Various websites- (Remove Spaces) 'What Will the LHC find?' by Sean Carroll- http://cosmicvariance.com/2008/08/04/what-will-the-lhc-find/ 'Cosmic Anarchists', Hazel Muir investigates the wild world of Q-balls- http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~kusenko/new_sci_qballs.html 'Black Holes FAQ', a list by Ted Bunn- http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/BHfaq.html 'Ripples at the Heart of Physics', the Higgs mechanism by Simon hands, Cern- http://www.phy.uct.ac.za/courses/phy400w/particle/higgs5.htm

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This week at NASA 28th Nov 08

  • Length: 6:27
  • Rating Average: 4.50 from 2 people
  • View Count: 35
  • Author: stevebd1

Tags: 50th  anniversary  astroid  belt  dawn  international  ISS  jpl  landing  mars  nasa  shuttle  site  space  station 

A little late but informative. Source- http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/twan_index.html

New Horizons at 1,000 days

  • Length: 2:6
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 10 people
  • View Count: 140' favoriteCount='3
  • Author: stevebd1

Tags: callisto  europa  ganymede  io  jupiter  moons  NASA  pluto 

A 'Model Dedication' video from the New Horizons website regarding the spacecrafts flyby of Jupiter on its way to Pluto. Date- 6th Oct 08. Source- http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/index.php

Food and satellites

  • Length: 4:37
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 1 people
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  • Author: stevebd1

Tags: esa  food  world 

Date- 22.10.08 Source- http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmghome.pl 'With a growing global population ensuring food security in the world's poorer countries is a major concern one that is being eased the help of data from Earth observation satellites such as Envisat. Data on the climate and...

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A Scanner Darkly - Ending

  • Length: 5:44
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 5 people
  • View Count: 539' favoriteCount='6
  • Author: ArturRenzo

Tags: darkly  dick  end  ending  keanu  linklatter  philip  reeves  richard  ryder  scanner  scene  winona 

Last scenes from Linklater's adaptation of Philip K Dick's novel.

Alien Action Figure (Commercial, 1979)

  • Length: 0:30
  • Rating Average: 4.61 from 117 people
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  • Author: FuzzyMemoriesTV

Tags: 1979  alien  aliens  chicago  fuzzy  fuzzymemories  fuzzymemories.tv  kenner  kids  local  memories  movie  museum  scary  toy  toys  tv 

Why they would make a kid's toy for this R rated movie is beyond me - but here it is, the stuff of nightmares - an action figure for kids from Kenner, based on the creature from the the movie Alien. Still, you have to admit that the thing is pretty wicked cool. :-) This aired on local Chicago...

Moby - Degenerates

  • Length: 3:59
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 5 people
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  • Author: hardware440

Tags: degenerates  last  moby  night 

A track from Moby's new album Last Night.