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2009 is going to be International Year of Astronomy. There are several projects planned grouped under two broad categories Cornerstone projects and Special projects that includes 100 hours of astronomy and The World At Night.

There is a also an ambitious commemorative 365 day astronomy podcast project
that will publish one podcast per day, for all 365 days of 2009. The podcast episodes are written, recorded and produced by people around the world.
More about this podcast project.

Subscribe to the podcast

That piece is an advert for inviting geeks to some conference!
Some one quips Microsoft is the Sarah Palin of the Tech World. Yep, I say. Both do cover incompetence in attractive containers.
Posted in Duh, Technology, Weird Tagged: microsoft, sarah palin, sarah palin jokes, video

Ever since I got to watch MTV music videos and got baffled by what I saw there - the lack of connection between the songs and the visuals, I craved for something like this.
Watch this music parody video of A-Ha's 1980s song Take on Me, in which, the song lyrics are just what happens in the visuals - literally.

College students at NASAs Johnson Space Center has made some interesting videos to help their generation reconnect with NASA, Space and its excitation. One of those videos showcasing the International Space Station is tuned on the Vanilla Ice copy-cat song Ice Ice Baby, of course, with new lyrics and a new title I.S.S. Baby. Here is the video:

The blurb of the video at YouTube reads
Stop! And collaborate the station- the International Space Station that is. Humans have been living in space, about 240 miles

a one minute video explaining how the collider works. Four more short videos are available from the same CNET source.

a one minute video explaining how the collider works. Four more short videos are available from the same CNET source.

1) Sarah Palin Nude Portrait
Er, can I borrow those books?
The admirer has this to say:
Despite their political differences, Elliott admits to a bit of a crush on the Alaska governor. He began painting her smile and trademark glasses, he said, before filling in the details: a gun, red high heels, polar bear rug, rugged Alaska landscape and a scared moose. His daughter, who looks a little like Palin and does a great impression of her, served as model for the governor’s body.
America is one country that mak

Mathematicians find a way to demonstrate hyperbolic spaces through knitting garments.
These garments are no longer artwork for them. These are objects with no equations. These are mathwork….
Posted in Science Tagged: hyperbolic space, hyperspace, knitting, math, math demo, math demonstrations, mathematics, Science, videos, visualizing hyper space

Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address.
One of my favorites speeches from recent times…
Posted in Technology Tagged: commencement speech, inspiration, inspirational speeches, inspirational talk, motivational talk, steve jobs, steve jobs stanford 2005, steve jobs stanford speech

Innocuous looking individual entities behave in an amazingly unique fashion as a group. Seen in the video below is the behavior of a flock of Starlings on Otmoor near Oxford, England. The video is by Dylan Winter

The amazing behavior that is observed during winter evenings is understood as a means to generate body heat for the night and also as a possible defense mechanism to shoo away preys. The later reasoning has some evidence as seen from the next video below. Here the starling flock ward off a falcon

citizen astronauts in a space voyage...interesting montage of space related shots

This is the latest it seems -
Now a consortium of European researchers is testing a way to connect several swallowable devices to create a surgical “robot” that would self-assemble inside the stomach.
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A collaboration of researchers from Italy, France, Switzerland, and Spain, called ARES, is testing a way for multiple capsules to automatically snap together. Each would be swallowed individually before assembling into a more complex device once safely in the stomach.
Pretty smooth I should say, alth

David Gallo explains about fantastic living organisms surviving near volcanoes under water

Shenzhou 7 Safely Return to Earth. Some live feed from the spacecraft