Silicon Valley heavyweights urge Obama to weigh in on Hangar One's fate

Source: The San Jose Mercury News

company they control, in exchange for using two-thirds of the hangar's space to house their private fleet of jets. Three influential Silicon Valley business groups this week urged President Barack Obama to keep Hangar One unde ...
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Newly discovered microbes give new meaning to 'slow'

Source: The Seattle Times

LOS ANGELES — Had enough of life in the fast lane and looking to take it down a notch or two? You might seek guidance from a colony of deep-sea microbes harvested from the barren depths of the Pacific Ocean that are progressing so slowly, they a ...
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President Obama arrives in California for two-day fund-raising trip

Source: Boston Herald

America has bounced back from the edge of economic oblivion but still has a long way to go toward restoring the American dream, President Barack Obama told enthusiastic supporters and contributors at a pair of Silicon Valley fundraisers Wednesday ...
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iGEM in space: a Q&A with the Brown-Stanford team

Source: Scientific American

During the past couple months I’ve been thinking and writing a lot about space colonies for some reason, and I recently had the pleasure of talking with a group of iGEM students that spent last summer designing synthetic microbes that ...
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NASA develops speedy vacuum tube prototype for computers in space

Source: The Verge

While semiconductors replaced vacuum tubes as the go-to way to conduct electrical current in our gadgets decades ago, scientists are looking to bring them back for computers used in space. The fact that semiconductors are cheaper and easier to bu ...
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President Obama arrives for two-day fund-raising trip

Source: Contra Costa Times

for proposing tax cuts that would be paid for by ordinary Americans, as well as further diminishment of institutions such as Social Security and Medicare. a totalitarian. He doesn't want information. Trust me." 44th President ...
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A Few Thu. Storms... Tropical Moisture Looming... New NASA App 2.0 Released

Source: WAWS FOX 30

Nice photo below from Amanda Carta, Jax early Wed. evening as isolated small showers moved west to east through metro Jax. A weak upper level disturbance will move into the area Thu. Moisture will be lacking but with hot surface tem ...
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First POTUS pool report: Moffett to Atherton

Source: Ibabuzz.com - Political Blotter - Politics in the Bay Area

Elwood: “national polls do not have predictive power at this point in the cycle.”... Truthclubber: Update to @15 – It’s not just “me” that “thinks” this way, there... Claire Voyance: LMAO. Great work, losers! JohnW: Re: #5 Gschwartz S ...
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NASA Ames helps re-enter the Dragon

Source: Science Daily

ScienceDaily (May 23, 2012) Decades of rigorous research, testing and development performed in the Entry Systems and Technology Division at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered Ames' thermal protection engin ...
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