The Planck spacecraft has obtained its first peek at the afterglow of the big bang, revealing it in unprecedented detail. Its first map of the entire sky is set to be complete in about six months.
"The afterglow of the big bang" ... We are sending peeping tom probes into deep space. The Planck spacecraft, sitting in a tree staring into the universe's window.
Washington Monthly ranks Yale 23rd in its social contribution. While I think it's fair to rank Yale well below the nation's top public universities, I have a nit to pick. WM's "Service" metric includes ROTC participation; for reasons dating back to the Vietnam War, ROTC has a very low profile on Yale's campus. But WM doesn't effectively track community service performed on campus, so the work of Dwight Hall, an independent organization on campus that generates thousands and thousands of student community service hours, goes unnoticed. Yale definitely felt like a place where service was considered extremely important; sadly, that's not reflected in the ranking.
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Liz and I drove up to the Snowy Range in Medicine Bow National Forest,
only a few hours north of Boulder. We hiked to the top of Medicine Bow
Mountain where there's still snow at 12000'. We also saw a moose and
her calf when we came around a bend along the Libby Creek trail. We
weren't more than 15' from the two of them. They watched us warily for
a bit before going back to breakfast. Lifelong dream to see a moose:
check. Time to dream bigger.
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HT to Daniela
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The true Harvard man wears Harvard Yard.
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Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,” and said that “it breaks the family.” But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases, such as interracial pregnancies.
“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,” he told an aide, before adding: “Or a rape.”
See: Obama, Barack.
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