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The research papers, appearing in today’s issue of Science and next week’s issue of Earth and Planetary Science Letters, mean scientists will have to re-evaluate tectonic processes that build high elevation plateaus, such as those in Tibet and the central Andes.

“These results really change the paradigm of understanding of how mountain belts grow,” says Carmala [...]

Nice article on space exploration and the space elevator by Arthur C. Clarke over at the Times: 1st floor: haberdashery, curtains. 35,780th floor: satellite in space

Ignore Hinokio’s tagline “Inter Galactic Love,” there’s nothing about outer space in this movie! Satoru is a middle school boy who, after being crippled in a car accident, attends school remotely using a robot as an avatar. In addition to being composed of tungsten alloy, etc. the robot is made of “hinoki” wood to save [...]

The scientists are:

Mary Anning (the “bone girl” of Lyme Regis)
Luther Burbank (who brought us the Russet Burbank potato among other plants)
Marie Curie
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Buckminster Fuller
Galileo Galilei
Werner Heisenberg
Jan Ingenhousz (this is the surely the only pop song in the world containing the word “phlogiston”)
Thomas Jefferson
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
Joseph Lister
Thomas Malthus (who always makes me think [...]

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