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52 volcanoes across the Aleutian arc in Alaska, color coded for their activity status (see post for color key), seen on May 16, 2014 by Aqua/MODIS. Click here to see a larger version of this shot. Image: NASA Earth Observatory / Rob Simmon.
It?s not everyday you can see 52 potentially active volca…
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So, let?s say Joss Whedon has a time machine (because, if anyone would actually have one, it?d probably be him) and he wanted to go back to the early-1970?s to pitch Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a horror movie to be co-produced by Hammer Films and American International Pictures (because, why the hel…
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Well, that was quite quick. After being asked about the possibility of a sequel from the very first press screening, and the answer being ?we?ll have to see how the first one does,? it appears that Legendary and Warner Bros. are sufficiently happy to begin work on a sequel to Godzilla, which is the …
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May 18, 2014: Olber’s Paradox Photos by Copyright Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
n a Universe infinite in time and luminous stuff, like stars, we would expect to see light from stars in every direction we look. This would mean the night sky would not be dark and instead i…
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Photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Small distillers (and even big ones) would love to speed up the chemistry that happens inside a barrel, because as long as what they make is sitting in wood, it?s not making money. Technology that could shorten the time between distillation and bottl…