Posted on April 13, 2009 by ProfessorTreeFrog
When Astronauts are working on the International space station, they are allowed to bring up ‘crew preference’ items. NASA Astronaut Don Pettit used his available space to bring up supplies for cool microgravity science experiments! And - lucky for us – he filmed them all! Below is one of his vidoes that was recently featured on [...]
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Posted on December 13, 2008 by ProfessorTreeFrog
I have emerged from my semester-induced hiatus to write about something which I feel very strongly about. National Public Radio, due to funding problems associated with the economic downturn, has chosen to cancel their weekly program News and Notes, and more importantly to me the daily news magazing Day to Day. Madeleine Brand, Alex Chadwick, Alex [...]
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