MINI ALMANAC

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Moon phase

Highlights:

Norbert Wiener

IG-NOBEL 2005

The Da Vinci Code

Holy Blood, Holy Grail

The Solomon Key

NOBEL MEDICINE 2004

IG-NOBEL PRIZES
2004

The first email

Concerned Scientists write to Bush

Economics Nobel 2003

Chemistry Nobel 2003

Medicine Nobel 2003
Literature Nobel 2003

Physics Nobel 2003

Life on Mars ?
Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of Double Helix
Good Bye Dolly
On Stonehenge
The Loss of Columbia
IG Nobel 2002
The invention of :-)
West Nile Virus
Asteroid Impact?
Molecule Hunt
Tuxedo Park
Ancient Trade Routes
Pop Singer to Fly In Space
Great Ideas

Computational Genomics

Bioinformatics

Baraka
The Universe in a Nutshell
Copenhagen, the Play
Count of Monte Cristo
Nobel Prize 2001
John Nash
Echelon
Kernel Methods
Ig-Nobel Prize
Einstein's Brain
Space Turism
Floating City
Mir's Blast
Origins
Great Books
Nobel Prize
In the mind of:
Serial Killers
The secret shuttle
Are we aliens?
Studying ET
Dinosaurs
Bonobo
Pattern Analysis
Early Vibrators
and Hysteria
The CYB.ORGs
among us
Book: Darwin
Book: Russell

The Loss of Columbia

After more than 20 years of service, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-rentry in the atmosphere, with a crew of seven astronauts on board.

This disaster leaves one problem that the loss of Challenger in 1986 did not create: a crew of 3 astronauts in the International Space Station wondering how they will be brought back. The previous disaster grounded the shuttle fleet for 2 years ... in this case, how will the ISS crew get back ?

It may be Russia to the rescue ...
(more updates later ...)

Korolev : How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon by James Harford Amazon.com The history of the intensely secretive Soviet space program makes a riveting backdrop to this lucid biography of the dominant figure in that program, Sergei Korolev (1907-66). A brilliant engineer and superb organizer,... Read more

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CRISIS ABOARD
THE MIR
an account of the dramatic accidents on Mir in 1997

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	History of Technology
	Is this Monument Telling the Truth ? This monument in downtown Boston is at odds with a recent Congress resolution, granting to Antonio Meucci - not Alexander Bell - moral rights for the invention of the telephone .... more

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Bryan Burrough, coauthor of the bestselling Barbarians at the Gate, has a talent for reworking factual accounts so they read like first-rate thrillers. Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir is over- whelming in its scope... Read more