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- The Sea of Tranquility Famed for being the landing site of Apollo 11 the Sea of Tranquility is a whopping 873 kilometers in diameter. Now that's alot of footsteps for a man! My claim to fame is that I shook Buzz Aldrin's hand when I was on a visit to the EPCOT ce...
- Indigo Girls The Indigo Girls are Emily Saliers and Amy Ray. They are singers, songwriters, musicians, and political activists. They are extremely intelligent women who have worked hard for causes such as gay rights, the rights of Native Americans, and the enviro...
- Galileo Galilei Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo maintained that the earth revolved around the sun, disputing the belief held by the Roman Catholic church that the earth was the center of the universe. He refused to obey orders from Rome to cease discussions...
- The Inquisition The infamous Inquisition was a religious court that terrorized the Christian world for hundreds of years. The Inquisition was set up in 1233 as a Roman Catholic tribunal to investigate and punish heresy. Originally set up by the Dominican order, it...
- Choosing an Astronomical Telescope When the telescope's inventor, Galileo first gazed through the portals of his invention, his view of the Universe was instantly transformed. For the rest of us, Galileo's invention provided us with a radical revision of what we knew about the place w...
- SCRABBLE-Dabba Do SCRABBLE is a game the whole family can enjoy. It's mentally challenging, fun and educational. There is always a word you can learn from another player, or a word you can teach someone else. Let your imagination run wild and empty those words out of...
- Funny Science T-shirts, Astronomy T-Shirts, Physics T-Shirts The t-shirt design at left is a humorous look at what germs might feel like at being scrutinized by an over-curious human. It's a design I call Peek-a-Boo. As a person trained in physics, astronomy, and computer science, I've tried to wake up my sen...
- Cassini-Huygens The sixth planet from the Sun, Saturn is a gas giant, comprised mostly of helium and hydrogen. Its complex system of rings, made up of rock and ice, extend hundreds of thousands of miles from the planet. Believed to be comprised of shattered moons, a...
- Don't Mess With Earth, a science fiction novel Advanced humans, calling themselves Terrans, leave a highly corrupt and mostly primitive Earth to search out a new planet to inhabit. Once on a new planet, they begin exploring the rest of the galaxy and begin watching over their more primitive human...
- Paradox and Logic A paradox is defined as "a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true" or, "a self-contradictory statement that at first seems true." Here's a simple example you've likely heard: If God can do anythin...
- Science Author Dava Sobel Maybe I'm a slow learner, but I had to try out Squidoo's automated page generator. This picture of Dava is probably better than the one below, which actually looks a lot more like Albert Einstein. I've removed the empty modules and filled in the &quo...
- International Year of Astronomy 2009 The International Astronomical Union (IAU) and UNESCO have joined forces to develop and promote a year long global celebration of Astronomy, the universe, and our place in it: IYA2009.
