Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. His key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding gravitational singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as Hawking radiation (or sometimes as Bekenstein-Hawking radiation).
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Sci-Fi movies like 'Battleship' and 'Men in Black 3' often depict aliens terrorizing our planet. But veteran E.T. hunter Jill Tarter has said that science fiction is probably far from reality in its depiction of ...
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Exactly three and a half years after Michael Savage declared that support for Prop 8 meant that America is “probably 50 leagues below the degeneracy that brought about Hitler” and that “[i]t is why we’re melting down as a nation,” co ...
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tool goes here A new family attraction featuring more than 30 animatronic dinosaurs opens this holiday weekend on 20 acres of woods and grass in northern New Jersey. Children play a game indoors in a yurt hut at Field Station Dinosaurs in Secaucus, N.J., ...
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The last time the 49ers shouldered the burden of being the heavy favorite to win the NFC West, they fell flat on their face en route to a 6-10 record. Of course, that was the year 2010 B.H. (Before Harbaugh), and th ...
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Remember the character Jodie Foster played in the movie "Contact," based on the book by Carl Sagan? She wasn't entirely invented; her character's basis was astronomer Jill Tarter. Tarter, 68, has spent more th ...
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In art class, mixing red and green makes a grayish brown. With light, the two colors form yellow. In Awake, when you take components of two alternate realities — one green and one red — everything goes white. And rubber band-less. While some vi ...
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Former SETI director Jill Tarter (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) has felt the need to go on the record and let the public know aliens don’t really want to eat us. That’s all well and good but how could this be w ...
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SETI's Alien Telescope Array (ATA) listens day and night for a signal from space. Credit: SETI Alien life probably isnt interested in having us for dinner, enslaving us or laying eggs in our bellies, according to a recent statement by former SETI direc ...
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/>Jack White and his Third Man Records label have set their sights high. In a recent interview with astronaut Buzz Aldrin (obviously), Jack mentioned a “secret Project” that involves “A Glorious Dawn,” a 2009 Third Man release tha ...
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Nice bash at the Gardiner Museum last night to celebrate the year of Great Britain. Well, it's not OFFICIALLY the year of GB, but it may as well be given the goings on with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics/Paralympics. I kinda thin ...
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