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Space Music: Carl Sagan –“A Glorious Dawn”

In another installment of space music, I have to help spread the word about this marvelous audiovisual creation by John Boswell, AKA melodysheep of Color Pulse Music. What he’s done here is take...

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Interesting Reading #360

Disruptive Change – “In 1981, your $100 got you about a second of HD Video. By 1993, your $100 could cover about a minute of HD Video. By 2000, your $100 got you about an hour and 15 minutes of HD...

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Interesting Reading #362

Mystery ‘dark flow’ extends towards edge of universe – “SOMETHING big is out there beyond the visible edge of our universe. That’s the conclusion of the largest analysis to date of over 1000 galaxy...

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Good question – How can a human being get a perspective on the size of the...

We know that the universe is big – billions of lightyears across. But how can a human being get a perspective on the size of the universe? This video is best watched full screen in HD, but anyway you...

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Good question – What does it mean when they say the universe is expanding?

You may have heard the idea that the universe is expanding. How do we know this, and what does it mean? The idea is explained in this video: As the video explains, the expanding universe concept was...

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Amazing – The scale of our universe

It’s our universe from the smallest to the largest items, presented through an amazing animation: The Scale of the Universe Here is another perspective on the same idea: How big is the universe? See...

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Good question – How fast are you moving through the universe right now?

Chances are that you are sitting in a chair right now, so it seems like you are stationary. But in fact you are moving through the universe at a tremendous speed at this very moment. Let’s take a look...

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Good question – How did the universe create complexity given the second law...

How did the universe create complexity given the second law of thermodynamics? It’s a fascinating question, because this is how life and humans were created in our universe. Here is an explanation in...

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Physicist Postulates Dimensions Added as Universe Expands

(iStockphoto/Thinkstock) I remember many years ago in the mid-90s — during the zenith of paranoia in the alien abduction phenomenon — the whole affair being offhandedly dismissed by Car Sagan, I...

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How do we know the age of the universe?

You asked: How do we know the age of the universe? Marshall Brain Answered: Scientists currently estimate the age of the universe to be 13.75 billion years old. This is the number of years that have...

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